🙌🏽Sublime Sunday🙌🏽 An excuse to post your random, creative or crazy ideas by - @c0ff33a ☕️

Welcome to #SublimeSunday , a tag presenting you with the unique opportunity to post something a bit different, wacky, crazy or just whatever takes your fancy and instigated by me @c0ff33a ☕️

First up though is a #beautifulsunday (hosted by @ace108) photo with a #funkyedit (hosted by @krazypoet) with Saturation to the Max.

It's been another week of very changeable weather, at the start of the week it was overcast and quite chilly, but on Wednesday the sky was clear blue and the temperature rocketed to over 25 degrees Celsius - super hot by UK standards. And then it went cloudy cool again, and for our Bank Holiday weekend a bit of rain too. So my Bank Holiday Weekend has so far been spent painting at work again.

But at least I had a new gadget to help me, a spray paint gun. Having purchased what is a substantial 200 litre Air Compressor capable of 10 bar pressure - just to open two doors on the 30kg coffee roaster - I started thinking that maybe I could use it for other applications - after all it comes with two hose outlets.

So I picked up the cheapest air compressor accessory kit I could find on eBay, and the biggest marvel was the compressed air gun - it's brilliant for cleaning the roasters especially the fans - blasts dust and grime off no hassle. It also came with the paint spray gun, but of course no instructions. So I looked up online the usage and generally it seemed to be if you had a thin emulsion paint, and then added 15% water and mixed thoroughly that worked best.

Fortunately I had in a back corner a large tub of B & Q Value white emulsion purchased around 2012 and then never touched, it was already like water so tipping some into a bucket and adding more water made it super runny. I did not have a proper mixing tool, so I made one from a hole boring drill bit and a cable tie. I think this could work magic on my Yorkshire Pudding mix too!

Insert the drill into the bucket and pull the trigger for mixing satisfaction.

What you must do is keep the mixy bit deep into the paint otherwise...

You start to make a mess! You see the problem here is I'm a man, and was trying to hold a drill in one hand and a phone in another and operate both simultaneously. It's impossible - men can not multitask and here is the point proven - trying to take a photo while mixing paint ended up in a mess.

Anyway once mixed thoroughly the paint worked really well in the spray gun, the advantage is you don't need to carry a pot and a brush, or a roller and roller tray. Just hold the gun, aim it in the general area and spray away - here you can see a partial coat on the underside of the lintel.

And on the opposite side the rest finished, down the column too. It's far quicker then brush or roller - especially when fiddly edges are concerned.

I also managed to get this area including ceiling done - for reference here is the wall before

It was a weird salmon pink colour - looks far better now. I masked off the loader pipe because fitting the clamps was a pain and I didn't fancy removing and refitting it now it all works!

It does look a bit patchy when wet, but once it dries out it is perfectly acceptable for a warehouse - might not be your Penthouse perfect finish - but I'm just aiming for clean.

So that has been my whole weekend, painting. I have also stripped out the room the smaller roaster is in, touched up the paint in there and replaced the pallets with two iron pallets the 30kg roaster parts came on and some fresh clean pallets - that's for another post.

And a #funkyedits to finish.