What is wrong with Forest Shadows?
indianagardengirl
28 days ago
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After my close call with Snake Eyes and HVX, I got serious about potting up new hostas for a year or so before planting out. I mail ordered several new hostas last year and potted them all. All have come through the winter nicely, but Forest Shadows is really not happy. I have segregated it away from all the others until I figure it out. What do you think might be going on here?
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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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Comments (11)This does make for some interesting reading and I wonder how far away we are from realizing tree planting is just one arrow in the quiver of going green and might not be the one with the most lasting benefit. I sense shade and shadow issues would come into play more in new housing or commercial development where alternate energy systems are installed from the get go as opposed to random conversions. Homeowners who want to landscape and landscapers who want to design will have to take this into serious consideration sometime - but it won't happen until our collective energy consumptive backs are against a wall. You may have a private nuisance action against your neighbor if a tree or offending shade producing structure constitutes a substantial and unreasonable interference. Regarding the Preservation of Solar Access - in Connecticut, it appears that the homeowner could enter into agreements with his or her neighbors to obtain an easement to preserve solar access for the system. If the neighbor violated the easement, for example by enlarging the size of his building or allowing vegetation to grow to block sunlight from reaching the system, the homeowner could seek relief from the courts. In addition, the homeowner may have some protection under zoning law. Standard provisions of municipal zoning ordinances, such as limits on the height of buildings, can limit the ability of the owner of an adjoining property from modifying his property in a way that blocks sunlight from reaching the solar system. In Common Law, under the English doctrine of "ancient lights" if a landowner and his ancestors had received sunlight across an adjoining property for a specified period of time, the landowner was entitled to continue to receive this benefit. He could prevent his neighbor from obstructing his access to light. Under these circumstances, the landowner was said to have an easement by prescription to "light and air" over his neighbor's property....See MoreHELP!! What am I doing wrong? My ceiling is a mess...
Comments (13)Hi, I quote your original post: "We took the energy and time to level the ceiling, put up new drywall etc... We then sealed it with an oil based sealer/primer. Waited a few days, then proceeded to paint on a laytex ceiling paint. " You directly state you used an oil based sealer primer. Show us a picture of the labels on the cans. There must be some product incompatibility going on. Rough texture shouldn't appear out of nowhere. When there's a problem I always suspect that the first coats were not allowed to dry fully, esp. if the primer was oil. If it is uncured it will cause mischief with the finish coat, esp. flat latex. Putting more coats on top to affect a remedy actually makes it worse. I'd let it dry a good long time and see what happens. Another thought: you absolutely never put oil primer over new plaster- the caustic components turn the oil in the paint to soap and it peels right off. If the drywall job involved a large quantity of setting-type joint compound, the house is unheated, and the work was finished immediately before painting, then that's a possibility; the moisture still inside the not-fully-cured Durabond is reacting with the oil primer. Casey...See MoreWhat have I done wrong
Comments (3)I agree with faron79, it depends upon the paint and the paint brush. It also has to do with the techinique. You are probably overbrushing the paint. If you are using a stiff brush, it is easier to see brush marks. Soft brushes work best with the semi-gloss finishes. I recently used a stiff brush and had to be very light on my touch with the brush to get an even coat with no brush marks on one of my doors. I used a foam roller on the other doors and the finish came out great. The general rule on semi-gloss is to lay it on and leave it alone....See Morewhat's wrong with this deck?? (see pic)
Comments (12)i think what you are seeing there is the strokes they either did with a power washer or with a sander. When a sander or washer goes in one direction, then stops and moves back, the time that is used in the "stopped" position causes that part of the deck to be more sanded/washed. So the lighter areas you see is a part in the process that became cleaner/more sanded because it was gone over in quick succession. Make sense? The same is true if you are painting anything. That's why the pros always (if they can) have a continuous stroke from top to bottom or side to side. If you ever painted a multi-panel door, you would know what i mean....See Moreindianagardengirl
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27 days agoNo different treatment. All of them in a tub that I moved in and out of the garage on frosty nights. North side of house. Here are the others.
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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