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BHC Vic

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A few weeks back I took a week off to study for my cwi exam. It ended up being a week of slave labor for my wife. That came with its perks but that’s a thread for a different forum. 😜 I basically re did the front yard. I took out 3 large sagos and like 10 little palm trees. Planted a bunch of new stuff, new lights the whole deal. I think it looks really good. Well, my wife said now that everything is gone and you can see the house, she hates it. It’s an ugly yellow, but I don’t really care because it’s the same color as my parents house. I guess I kind of even like it 🤷‍♂️ As you can imagine, I lost that battle. So today they are painting the house. Its going to look completely different. She chose white with black trim. Black garage door, and the are going to white wash or lime wash the bricks. Some shit... I don’t know, but it’s 250 bucks for 4 gallons. Some before pictures. And some process pictures. I’ll post the finish pictures when it’s finished. Probably next week since it’s a buddy deal. (Side job) it was so weird scrolling through the pictures and timeline. We literally stopped to see this house coming home from a river trip. That night my wife made an offer on the house. The next day I got home from work and there was a for sale sign in my front yard at the chino house. My wife was 7 or 8 months pregnant at the time. Oddly enough we bought the chino house pretty randomly when she was 8 months pregnant. Thank God I got snipped 😂😂
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ChumpChange

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Ours is getting painted at the beginning of the year. Want to wait til after Christmas so I can go Clark Griswald on the Place.
 

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Good God, you aint kiddin slave labor ! you do all that yourself ? We're preppin to sell in the near future. I was hoping for this Spring but not looking good....
Got a new roof a few years back. Painted the house last year with some landscaping. Replaced my 25 yr old badly cracked concrete driveway this past spring......
We're gettin there......
Congrats !
 

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My son is coming home for a week next month and is going to paint my house . Trim is painted already .
 

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makes the house look newer with the new paint (white / black)
my slave labor continue tomorrow as well. Side yard converted to golf cart and quad storage. New gate built, crushed rock replaced the dead grass. have to install posts and roof soon
 

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Hey Vic, check your camera lens, it's got a blueish tint to it!!!;)
 

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If I were you I’d shave my head.
 

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Must be something in the air. I got home today a no there were paint samples in the house. And sections of the house painted. I guess we are getting our house painted as well soon.

@BHC Vic of your buddy is looking for another side job. Let me have his ##
 

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it's looking good. your going to really like cleaning that garage door regularly. haha
 

BHC Vic

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I hope you got some money for those palms
I couldn’t give them away. I think ingot 50 bucks for 2 of them. The other 2 I gave to a buddy for his new place in riverside. It took a solid day or two to get them out by myself. First one I went at with a shovel and Burke bar. It destroyed my hands. I went and got a jack hammer.
 

BHC Vic

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Must be something in the air. I got home today a no there were paint samples in the house. And sections of the house painted. I guess we are getting our house painted as well soon.

@BHC Vic of your buddy is looking for another side job. Let me have his ##
Let me ask if he goes out that way. He did a really good job. And I’m picky
 

BHC Vic

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If I were you I’d shave my head.
I shaved my head for 15 years. When I got hired on as an instructor my boss asked if I would grow my hair out because it looked more professional. I’ve known him for 15 years it was more advice than anything. Not sure how it impacted anything, but my career has been doing very well since 🤷‍♂️Still the youngest guy to teach at the international so I must be doing something ok?
 

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I thought you lived on a small ranch. House will look nice, but I agree with you on the original color.

I keep talking my wife out of painting our brick facade, settled for getting the trim painted.

I'm done with overgrown landscaping also, started pulling shrubs out this fall.
 

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My neighbor did the same paint scheme on his house and it came out really nice! I think you’ll really like it once complete.
 

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I took out 6 large Sago's years ago, but used my Jeep and a recovery strap. They are a bitch to get out!
 
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