The weather window
Where the fortnight is heading for exterior work on the east coast, read the way we read it for our own diary. When to book the scaffold and when to keep the tins shut.
The Aethos Letter · every second Friday
One useful note.
Every fortnight.
The painting weather window, one colour, one repair tip and one photograph from a live job. Written from the van and the workbench in St Andrews, not from a marketing calendar.
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What is in it
Four things. Always the same four.
A format you can read in the time it takes the kettle to boil, and skim in less. The value is in the consistency: after a season you will have a working diary of east coast painting weather, a small palette you trust and a drawer of repairs that work.
One colour
A single colour we have used or tested, with the room, the light and the paint it was in. Not a trend list. A colour and the reason it worked.
One repair tip
Something small and useful from that fortnight on site. The filler that held, the primer that did not, the way to open a painted sash without breaking the glass.
One photograph
From a live job, with permission, and a few lines on what you are looking at. Sometimes a finish. Often a problem halfway through being solved.
The rules we hold ourselves to
Your inbox is a room in your house.
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Every second Friday morning. If there is nothing worth saying, we skip it rather than pad it.
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No offers, no launches, no partner content. If we ever recommend a product it is because we bought it.
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One click to leave, at the bottom of every letter. Your address is stored in our own database in the UK and never shared.
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Reply to any letter and it lands in the studio inbox. We read every one.
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