My Other New Invention

I have been painting our house, since we bought it in 1970 because it was gray, up until now when I am painting the front of it, which included the large dormer on the front.  So this makes it 50 years!  Yikes!  Of course when I do paint the house, I only do one side a year, so it is not overwhelming.  The dormer is the hardest thing to paint because I am not standing on a ladder I need to sit on the roof.  And the roof has a pretty good slope to it, and so I was sitting on the roof where this plywood is, and clipped to one of these orange climbing ropes for safety.  But for some reason, I was slowly sliding down the roof so I had to hang on to the safety rope while I painted to keep me in one place.  So I call this invention "the sled" and it is a piece of 1/4" plywood with a piece of 2x4 nailed and screwed to the bottom.  So I sit on the plywood which is tethered to another climbing rope as you can see in this photo.  It is anchored to the peak of the roof.  And when I am painting, even though I am lying on my side on the plywood, I am essentially standing on the piece of 2x4.  It makes painting so much easier!

Here I am with the safety rope (there are two) connected to my industrial harness.  Behind me is the other safety rope which holds the sled in place.  There is some paint on my nose.  And there is some on the house as well!

If you look carefully, on most of the left side of the photo, you can see the new paint which is wet and shiny, and to the right, the older paint waiting to be refreshed.

So this shows the newly painted side of the dormer all bright and white.  To the right is the yet to be painted front of the dormer.  Notice it is dirty and satined.  I sprayed the side of the dormer with a mildew remover  and a bit of the front underneath the eaves.  I have to paint the other side of the dormer, and then I will paint the front.  Stay tuned.