If I were to enumerate the qualities of ideal paint scaffolding it might read as follows: solid, safe, spacious (plenty of room for sprayer and paint bucket) will easily reach 30 feet in the air, and last but not least, move effortlessly up/down/side to side by wordlessly reading your mind and anticipating what needs to be painted next.
Behr Premium Plus Ultra. Lifetime guaranty (that's what the can says). Nanotechnology. With Ethylene Glycol -- paintable if the temperature will remain above 35 degrees Fahrenheit for 4 hours. About 26 gallons of wall paint, and not 3 gallons of trim/door paint. Satin. Wished we'd have painted the walls flat.
Most days I used Greg's (siding guy) scaffolding. He was very generous in loaning and setting up/moving it around. I was nervous on it at first. The plank is maybe 10 inches deep, and twenty feet long, suspended on ladder jacks and ladders -- the whole thing flexes and bends. I focus intently when I'm spraying paint and lose track of my surroundings. While painting the long West side of the garage I walked right off the end. As I was falling I remember it feeling cool (temperature) and being surprised it didn't hurt. Right up until I hit the ground 7-13 feet below (depending on whether you measure it by my feet or my head which started at different heights and ended at precisely the same height). Then I jumped up, ripped off my mask, glasses, and gloves and ran around trying to figure out what had hit me.


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