re: House Painters...Why do they all look like they've just got released from prison?

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I don’t reckon most of y’all have done much painting, but standing on a ladder, looking up all day, repetitive motion, painting base boards, etc, that shite hurts.

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I've done more than my share of painting, both interior and exterior. Give me interior every day, all day compared to exterior.

Outside in the elements, standing for hours on end on step ladders or even worse, extension ladders with a tinier platform for your feet. That crap gets old fast.

Then if using a Makita 5 in. sander/grinder removing bad paint, you should be wearing a full blown respirator and eye protection at the very least.

You think wearing a cheesy face mask during Covid was no fun, wear a carbon filtered respirator all day long and tell me how you like it.

And then while doing all this sanding, the dust is getting everywhere, down your shirt, in your ears, covering exposed skin and sticking to it due to sweating.

And if you're lucky, nobody will call the Inspectors and you can just put the ladder up and prep away, but if they do and they come out, chances are you will have to tarp the house from the gutter line to the ground. Ever try to prep under a tarp with no breeze blowing and all that dust staying confined????

Then caulking under weatherboards and along trim lines getting splinters when leveling the caulk for a nice finish.

The painting is the gravy part of the job. It's all the prep work that is a killer if the job is done right.