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> I hope this confuses all of the issues sufficiently.

Not in the least. I won't go on about the time we painted the cast iron 
facade the wrong color. But I will mention that on the primer and two 
coats of finish that I learned after the first two cast iron projects to 
have the first finish coat a slight tint off from the second because 
though we were applying two finish coats the 'client' could not see it 
and claimed we had not and we found ourselves doing 3 finish coats. So 
then I had a client that took more than a month to select the tint of 
the 1st finish coat as they were so worried that someone might scratch 
the top coat. Helping people decide what they want to do is not my 
particular forte. This incident was one of the culminating factors in my 
determining to never do any residential project without an architect 
involved. It goes along with my earlier resolve never to work for anyone 
who cannot read the backside of a cement bag (or I suppose the label on 
a paint can). Note that I say work FOR.... I am perfectly willing and 
often pleased to work with people who cannot read the backside of a 
cement bag... they tend to make up for it in other ways.

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