Re: Choosing Colors
From: Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddesscomcast.net)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 07:56:13 -0700 (PDT)
You're hired! ;o)

Liz

> From: Matt Lawrence <matt [at] technoronin.com>
> Reply-To: Developing cohousing - collaborative housing communities
> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:32:33 -0500 (CDT)
> To: Developing cohousing - collaborative housing communities
> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Choosing Colors
> 
> On Mon, 3 May 2004, Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:
> 
>> Oh, Matt, you don't live in cohousing, do you?
> 
> No, I don't.
> 
>> Sorry, that was a wee bit condescending! It's just that painting 25 or more
>> units is incredibly time-consuming and a complete impossibility for a
>> community full of people with day jobs. In the time it would take me to
>> paint my house, a contractor could paint 5 houses or more, and do it better.
>> It just doesn't make sense.
> 
> Why?  Why can a contractor do it faster?  Better equipment?  If so,
> splitting the cost of the equipment 25 ways can make it quite affordable.
> Or can the contractor do it faster by doing less?  Spraying one colour is
> fast.  However, the day labour sometimes does really crappy work.
> 
>> Also, we have two-storey houses, and it would involve a significant risk
>> that many homeowners are not willing to take. And what about the people who
>> aren't physically capable of doing it? Do they have to pay more, just
>> because they are disabled? We're not talking about each homeowner-painter
>> doing one house, we're talking more like two houses. It's completely
>> unworkable. The only instance that it would make sense for homeowners to DIY
>> would be lot development models.
> 
> So?  Not everybody needs to work on the second floor.  I'd be perfectly
> willing to, particularly with good equipment.  It wouldn't take the entire
> community to do the painting.
> 
> It sounds to me like you've got a community full of people who don't want
> to get their hands dirty doing work in the building trades.  That's a
> valid way to live, bu not really what I'm interested in.
> 
> -- Matt
> The American Non-Sequiteur Society:  We may not make sense, but we do like
> pizza.
> 
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