Eternal Winter

As I've had a day off today due to the snow, thought I'd update the blog. Being self employed days like this are not profitable to me. Basically I don't work I don't get paid. No sick pay for me. I did actually make it to work, however where I have to park was too slippy and as I almost crashed three times on route decided to cut my losses and stay at home.

It seems like this winter has been going on for ages, normally we can do some exterior work at this time of year but not this year. Even on the site I'm working on it's cold. I'm indoors on corridors and the atrium but it's open plan and the wind blows through. We've been having trouble with certain paints, mainly the diamond matt. It's not adhering to the mistcoated walls and when dry it flakes and scrapes off. Not had this happen too me before, especially on internals. It's also happening on some of the woodwork and we are using the ecosure undercoat and gloss. Weighing up the variables, temp is too cold, the plaster had the frost get to it ( although that doesn't explain the woodwork issue ) or the paint itself hasn't had the correct mix or base and is reacting, we can't say what is causing it. All I know it's frustrating me and the other decorators on site. Still having the problem with the caulk crazing. We've had someone out to look at it and they have deemed it's the temp we are applying it in is too cold. I didn't agree with that as we had it happen in heated rooms. To me it is down to either the caulk or paint.

Lately I've been very happy with the level of work I've been producing and have received praise also for it. Sometimes that is payment in itself ( cash is always the preferred method however ;) ) as confidence is a strong factor in what you do or how you go about it. Confident in your own work and good results will follow. I worked for people in the past who took great pleasure in picking my work to pieces or running down what I did when in actual fact there wasn't anything wrong with it. All this was just to grind me down and keep me worrying I wasn't good enough. Took me a few years to realise this  and since I did I haven't looked back. Believe in yourself and you will achieve what you want to.