Well, in preparation for washing and painting at least a few of the (decorative only) window shutters I started on taking them down but found out the idiot who installed them just ran screws into the brick facade until the heads were flush and bent/stripped almost all of them.
So rather than fight getting all the screws out and then reinstalling new ones in the now-enlarged holes in the brick, which would probably just make a bad thing worse, I'll just leave the shutters where they are, very carefully mask them off, and paint them in place. DW does not like this idea as she is concerned about getting paint on the brick. I think if I can do precision painting on R/C airplanes I can handle masking off the shutters.
Home Depot is starting to really like me. I just ordered a bunch more of painting stuff to make this happen, will be delivered Thursday. They didn't have everything at the nearest store 30 minutes away and I'm not in a rush anyway so I'll just wait for it to be delivered.
So rather than fight getting all the screws out and then reinstalling new ones in the now-enlarged holes in the brick, which would probably just make a bad thing worse, I'll just leave the shutters where they are, very carefully mask them off, and paint them in place. DW does not like this idea as she is concerned about getting paint on the brick. I think if I can do precision painting on R/C airplanes I can handle masking off the shutters.
Home Depot is starting to really like me. I just ordered a bunch more of painting stuff to make this happen, will be delivered Thursday. They didn't have everything at the nearest store 30 minutes away and I'm not in a rush anyway so I'll just wait for it to be delivered.