With the Ogden Temple scheduled to open soon, Ogden's historic neighborhoods have been buzzing with service projects to give the neighborhoods a fresh face. We recently participated in a one such project.
This property is located on the 21st block of Adams Ave. In this photo, it had been power sprayed in preparation for our work. The cream and white two tone paint job was sprayed on about 10 years ago.
Here I am scraping the gable. It was amazing how much paint scraped off. The previous paint job clearly just sprayed over any loose paint that existed. We spent quite a while making sure we got rid of any flaking paint.
Unfortunately, we also discovered that the paint on the brick was oil based. We had purchase latex paint. Since they were incompatible, we had to apply a bonding primer to the whole house in preparation for our colors. This slowed us down quite a bit.
Finally, we were able to start applying colors.
There was quite a large group of volunteers that came to help bring the project together. Even the kids were helping.
The final product turned out very nicely.
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