Had a landlord paint the inside of my bathtub with white latex paint. Did you know that latex paint is slippery as fuck when wet? Because I fucking do now. I literally bought adhesive grip tape for the bottom of my tub/shower. By the end of my stay ~15 months later, nearly all the paint was chipped away from repeatedly being blasted with hot water and stepped on, revealing the years of hard water limescaling they were trying to cover up. Why fix it when you can cover it and create a serious safety hazard? But of course I had to scrub every spec of every surface before I left or lose my entire deposit.
You forgot to mention the part where you’d take a bath and come out with all the paint flakes sticking to you.
Had the exact same experience
And sometimes the old bathtubs, when the enamel is damaged, expose you to lead, so that’s fun.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower? Use a coating meat for it. It was probably shitty wall paint too. This isn’t a landlord problem, this is just a shitty homeowner problem. As an ex professional journeyman level painter, we used to call this the homeowner special - it’s always some dumbfuck bad solution or something wildly inefficient and the worst kind of overkill: ineffective overkill where it would have been cheaper to just replace. I’m having ptsd flashbacks of all the stupid stuff I’ve seen. I hated being a painter for many reasons. But one of them was that I was exposed to so many stupid, lazy, entitled people from all walks of life and in all kinds of ways. Unfucking people’s stupid stuff, stupid cowokers, stupid bosses, stupid companies, stupid clients. Ughhh… I just remember one time being deployed to a site where the lead painter was using a putty knife to skin off all the paint of a peeling paint job on a ralmbler - it was all lead paint, which changes malleability depending on temperature, so he was on a step ladder, chain smoking cigarettes with torn off filters, with no ppe, doing circles around this house FOR DAYS dropping lead paint all over the ground with no safety catches or anything. And the worst part is the pm for the company at the time sold the gonna homeowner on a low cost contract and set into motion an insanely impossible job to do at any quality within budget because that’s how competitive the market is and how nobody wants to ever pay for lead abatement because it really is like 10-20x more expensive to do properly and safely.
Eye twitch
I left that job and never went back. I later quit to go back to school and got my bachelor’s in software engineering, only to have constant massive layoffs all across the industry and AI and trump come in and spicy diarrhea all over my life.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower?
So you don’t have to give the deposit back because your tenant stripped off all the paint?
landlords should be banned
from buying paint tbhftfy
I liked the pareidolia :D
In case anyone’s like me, living in a very old rental conversion, they make replica door hardware that you can buy. I had to replace a couple of door handles and other hardware due to wear and found the replicas were an affordable drop-in replacement
My parents renovated their kitchen and somehow matched cabinet handles that were original to the house that was built like 30 years prior. Crazy.
This reminds me of the weird partial cabinet around my gas meter that came with the house 18 years ago. The paint is the only thing holding it together and I’d need a real carpenter to replace it.
Landlords should be banned
I feel like some of them just put a big bucket of paint in the middle of a room, put a stick of dynamite in, close the door and leave.
Mythbusters tried it.
The Mr Bean Method
came here to say that. Love the silhouette of the guy reaching for his hat.
“I painted over your outlets with leaded paint. Anway because I think I did such a great job ill increase your rent but since im feeling generous I’ll only raise it by 40%”
-Average landleach
“I may have bough the paint anf all with money I got from your rent but trust me it would be so hard to pay for the paint and all if not for me”
Capitalism should be banned.
I fucking hate how everything is painted white now, the most soulless fucking paint
Beige is worst
*cheapest
Is it cheaper? I feel like whenever I get paint, I pay for the can, which is then mixed with any color I want. I wanted to buy it once without color added, and they told me it won’t look right. I still had to pick a white from a card anyway.
Having worked with realtors, they tell me that reality realty shows have pushed the off-white look so hard that people have an instinctive aversion to any color that is not off-white.
I personally wish my rental wasn’t all white, I would paint it some form of gray if I could. I have longish black hair and so does my cat. If I go a couple days without sweeping it looks like a poorly kept barber shop in here.
Landlords see a bucket of white latex paint and go, “YOOOOOOOO!”
Landlords suck of course, but real question: could the paint have acted as a kind of preservative for the wood and metal beneath?
If it was quality paint, perhaps. But you know a landlord is gonna go for the cheapest shit that’ll streak and run and chip like crazy leaving it an ugly mess that doesn’t protect anything.
And the answer is no!
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I have to say that I’ve seen this same level of effort on the left from homeowners.
So while landlords should be banned (not just from painting, but from existing, especially as they are permitted to operate today), the “paint everything” is an idiot owner problem that is not landlord exclusive.
Yep, all the (original) doors and hardware in my house have been painted over. So many layers of paint. Unfortunately they have also had stuff screwed in, nailed in, have been drilled through for various additional hardware, etc. so they can’t really be refinished to be restored…
I’m repainting them and changing the hardware out completely (it’s the old style inset locking mechanisms, so limited options), but that’s all I can do without replacing the doors themselves.
As someone who has dealt with this (including taking the original hardware, ordering replacement cover plates and misc gears, cleaning and polishing everything, greasing, etc)…
Replace the door, it will save you a lot of misery.
If its for a front door, replace everything, frame included, and get a nice insulated assembly.
YMMV. My mileage was horrible. Do not recommend.
If I was keeping the place I probably would.
I’m selling it tho so I really don’t care. Let them find all the problems the paint is hiding if they want later.
Everyone is like:
“Ban Landlords”
“Ban Private Healthcare”
“Fair Wages”
I’ll do one phrase that just encompasses everything:
“Ban Capitalism”
But landlords and unfair wages can exist without capiralism
I dont think anyone wants feudalism back though
Conservatives be like: “One day I’ll be a lordship, and then people like me better watch out!”
That’s some good looking wood under there. I do not understand why people paint hardware.
I’m guessing it probably wasn’t good looking before they decided to paint it. OOP did say “professionally refinished”.
How bad can metal be, that you’d think it would look better covered in paint?
