Painting Tips...
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Buy good quality brushes and rollers. Cheap rollers don’t hold up well and leave a fuzzy residue on your walls. Also, cheap brushes will only create uneven brush marks and bristles tend to fall out.
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Organize a tool station in the middle of the area you'll be working in. You'll enjoy the job more if you get everything together at the start. Gather together your paint, brushes, rollers, hammers, screwdrivers, plastic bags, plastic wrap, rags, paint can opener, and drop cloths.
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Use painters tape to tape off the areas that you don’t want wall paint to cover for example the door and window moldings. Painters tape is not the same as masking tape, generally it is blue and will stay put when painting. Make sure you burnish the taped down so that paint won’t seep underneath the tape.
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Wash your brush. Right before you start painting, wash your brush in the solvent that you are going to use when you are done with your painting. Such as, water based latex you would wash the brush with water. This, makes cleaning of the brush easier when you a done painting.
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Use either lotion or latex gloves. Use latex gloves if you want to keep your hands clean while painting. These are great especially when you are using a paint that is oil-based. If you are allergic to latex then apply a thick coat of lotion to your hands this will make washing the paint off your hands easier when finished.
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Don’t overload the brush or the roller with too much painting it will cause drips on the walls. When painting the wall paint in a random zig zag pattern, this ensures that you don’t have roller lines and will lay the paint down more evenly. Do not paint over a dry edge this will make overlap marks.
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The room's surfaces should be painted in this order:
- If you are going to prime paint first, prime the ceiling first, then the walls and trim
- Finish paint the ceiling; 2 coats if necessary
- Finish paint the walls; 2 coats if necessary
- Finish paint the baseboard trim; 2 coats if necessary
- Finish paint the door and door trim 2 coats if necessary
- Finish paint the windows 2 coats if necessary
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When storing brushes and rollers to use later, wrap them inside a plastic bag very tightly and place them inside the freezer.
Plan a Day for Preparation
Don't try to get everything done in one day.Avoid "burn out " use the day before painting day to do prep before painting, this is one of the best painting tips I give.
If there are a lot of wall to repair, and/or
wallpaper removal,
it could take up to two days for
wall preparation.
80% of your time is spent preparing the walls; therefore it would be a shame to be tired and start painting and do a poor job at it.
I know this from experience, and having to go back and touch up the tired messes I left behind.
