I used a brush on the walls because I thought the brush gave me greater control than the roller, which, even with a roller guard, splattered. So the living room took two months, the dining room three, and we had to hire painters to finish up the second and third floors to get the house on the market by the real estate agent s deadline. The painters used rollers. We ended up scraping paint splotches off the hardwood floors. I could have done the same thing, and it wouldn t have cost me a dime.
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It has few parts and the cleanup is minimal, so we expect the response to it to be, I can do this. Wagner used focus groups to determine how men and women viewed tools, so the company could develop packaging for the products, she said. The women generally asked what benefit the tool had for getting the job done and whether or not it was easy to use, Krop said. The men tended to buy gadgets for the technical features. Women seem more open to experimentation than men do, Krop said.