Our contractor is moaning that the pigeons have shat all over the nicely cleaned roof. He's gone out to buy bird netting.

I'm pretty sure the teak will be oiled, that's how it was originally.

Madam asked me to "help" choose the roof colour pointing at 3 slightly different browns on the colour chart (existing is brown).

The look I got when I pointed at a fluorescent pea-green finish (which would probably constitute a hazard to air navigation) should have turned me into a pillar of salt.

We had already agreed that it would remain brown so I got a hard punch on the arm when it clicked that I was joking.

2 hours ago, Crossy said:

Our contractor is moaning that the pigeons have shat all over the nicely cleaned roof. He's gone out to buy bird netting.

I'm pretty sure the teak will be oiled, that's how it was originally.

Madam asked me to "help" choose the roof colour pointing at 3 slightly different browns on the colour chart (existing is brown).

The look I got when I pointed at a fluorescent pea-green finish (which would probably constitute a hazard to air navigation) should have turned me into a pillar of salt.

We had already agreed that it would remain brown so I got a hard punch on the arm when it clicked that I was joking.

She just wants you to pick one, so she can make sure she does not accidentally pick what you like.

18 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

She just wants you to pick one, so she can make sure she does not accidentally pick what you like.

The contractor brought a couple of sample tiles painted with our two possibilities.

Neither of them look remotely like the colour swatches, being several shades lighter!

The one I liked looks like the output of a very sick dog!

He's gone to get a darker shade of sampler, we can choose once two coats are on the sample tiles and have dried.

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

The contractor brought a couple of sample tiles painted with our two possibilities.

Neither of them look remotely like the colour swatches, being several shades lighter!

The one I liked looks like the output of a very sick dog!

He's gone to get a darker shade of sampler, we can choose once two coats are on the sample tiles and have dried.

Given the style of your house, are you not going to just go with the earthy red on all the classical Thai stuff?

Looking at the pictures, I think the roof looks great. Nothing good comes from climbing on a rood that does not leak.

12 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Given the style of your house, are you not going to just go with the earthy red on all the classical Thai stuff?

Looking at the pictures, I think the roof looks great. Nothing good comes from climbing on a rood that does not leak.

Yeah, that's the general idea, to get the roof back to the colour it was when new (15 years of Thai sunshine has faded it significantly). In fact the colour I picked is actually called "reddish brown".

The scaffolding means nobody will have to walk on the actual roof.

The guys have painted a couple of tiles with our chosen colour.

That's much closer to the original colour of the roof, Madam is happy!

Happy wife, happy life!!

They've also started masking the teak, apparently a specialist company are going to spray the roof paint.

I like the color,,,

Yeah, the other one we looked at (Brownish Orange R-3575) was much lighter.

Madam said it looked too much like the Wat next door and maybe the ghosts would get confused!!

I have no idea if she was actually winding me up so I just kept my big mouth shut!

This is the stuff they are going to use.

https://www.beger.co.th/en/product/20/Synotex-RoofPaint

This colour.

Interestingly, or not, R-3578 is just "Brown" on the Beger website rather than the more fancy "Mocha".

32 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Yeah, the other one we looked at (Brownish Orange R-3575) was much lighter.

Madam said it looked too much like the Wat next door and maybe the ghosts would get confused!!

I have no idea if she was actually winding me up so I just kept my big mouth shut!

This is the stuff they are going to use.

https://www.beger.co.th/en/product/20/Synotex-RoofPaint

This colour.

Interestingly, or not, R-3578 is just "Brown" on the Beger website rather than the more fancy "Mocha".

We used the TOA roof paint for the canteen roof at the plant, and it looked and held up great, but it seemed to get dirty pretty fast.

More preparation ready for paint including brushing and blowing off dust and pigeon poop.

Supervised by Madam of course.

And on goes the primer.

Close supervision!

The roof is going brown again

A HVLP (High Volume Low Pressure) paint sprayer is your friend.

There will, of course, be at least one more coat.

The scaffoding has been supplemented by some proper stuff!

More primer goes on the gables and roof pitches.

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Meanwhile, the guys start refinishing the teak barge boards.

Flap wheels, angle grinders and a gentle touch takes off the surface oxidation.

Then finished off with the orbital sander.

Are there gussets on the back of those?

The first barge-boards are finished.

The turned out a little darker than I expected but OK, Madam has approved.

And more roof pitches are primed and painted.

Scaffolding re-configured for extra access.

Coming along nicely...

No work on the house today due to rain forecast.

Of course it's been bright sunshine all day!

Took the yappers to the vet for annual jabs, it had been hissing down there (about 6km as the crow flies) and their power was off.

Luckily the jabby things are low tech!

The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray ...

The boys are back on the roof with the sprayer.

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray ...

The boys are back on the roof with the sprayer.

The White House?

And the painting continues, exciting eh?

Finished gable, only 5 to go!

Meanwhile Madam has taken delivery of sand, rocks, cement and reinforcing mesh to extend the car port floor so we don't end up with a sea of mud when we wash the car.

Central upstairs area is complete and scaffolding removed.

Here we can see the difference between the re-finished barge board (right) and the old one awaiting finishing (left).

The boys are now moving the scaffolding to complete the third roof etc.

Looks great, and no drips all over the tile!

I will say I'm pretty pleased how it's turned out, I'd forgotten just how nice it looked when it was new.

Good for another 15 years, if I last that long! (I'll be the wrong side of 80 by then)

I may have to replace those light switches that have gone a bit yellow!!

Scaffolding re-configuration continues and Madam's Bougainvillia has had a serious haircut, fear not it grows FAST here.

Now you're going to have to get after the lawn....

19 hours ago, Crossy said:

I may have to replace those light switches that have gone a bit yellow!!

Just do what 'most' Thais do... paint over them 😄

8 minutes ago, johng said:

Just do what 'most' Thais do... paint over them 😄

I wish to live to see the place finished!!

41 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Now you're going to have to get after the lawn....

Yeah, it's never really recovered from the flooding.

When the Nile floods it brings vast amounts of fertile silt and deposits it at the delta leading to bumper crops!

When the Chao Phraya floods it just brings loads of silt, somebody forgot the "fertile" bit.