{"id":2967,"date":"2026-03-11T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:00:17","slug":"now-for-the-priming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/now-for-the-priming\/","title":{"rendered":"Now for the Priming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Priming is an interesting word and can mean a lot of things. It simply means getting something ready. You can prime a pump with water, an engine with fuel, a face with \u201cfoundation\u201d, and a wall with primer paint which is what we are now doing.<\/p>\n<p>After brushing off all the walls, and fixing as many of the minor blemishes that we could find we finally started our first wall of painting. Our first day we didn\u2019t get too much done as we were working on the setup and how to proceed through each room. I\u2019m working with a few youth who know a bit about painting which is helpful, but I\u2019m also teaching them a few tips that I\u2019ve picked up over the years and some different techniques both with the paint brush and the roller.<\/p>\n<p>The primer is a nice Dulux primer from <a href=\"https:\/\/micmaronline.com\/\">Micmar<\/a> and so it is going on nice and thick compared to the stuff that can be bought locally. I even had someone come in and ask if we were on our 3rd coat whereas we had only done one! This will make such a difference when it comes to bringing out the richness of the colour of the top coats which we have chosen so I\u2019m very pleased about that.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the next week or so I\u2019ll be splattered with paint, though I am very thankful that we are doing the inside with latex rather than oil paint \u2013 oil paint is so much more messy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priming is an interesting word and can mean a lot of things. It simply means getting something ready. You can prime a pump with water, an engine with fuel, a face with \u201cfoundation\u201d, and a wall with primer paint which is what we are now doing. After brushing off all ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[23,39,18],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-station","category-update","tag-building","tag-painting","tag-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chejejifm.com\/ln_zm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}