Due to the winter snows fail and springtime approaches, you cinch that it is sometime month to tackle the duty of repainting the family bedrooms. And equivalent though you are not looking forward to it, new often than not, the actual job of painting is the easiest slab.
You will find that the in toto laborious allotment is all of the paint prep work that you have to do before you can drive the painting job. Thence, yep, what does paint prep work entail?
Paint preparation begins with a basic clean up of the area to be painted. Basically this means getting stuff out of the way. Relocate all of the heavy pieces of furniture either out of the room completely or to the center where you can use a tarp of drop cloth to cover it. In addition, you will need drop covers on the floor. And, lastly, remove all of the pictures and other wall coverings from the walls.
Taking care of any cracks or hairline fractures in the wall is next. The beginning of a paint job is the best time to cover up these small cracks. Quick drying plaster or patching compound will make quick work of these.
Let the newly plastered area dry. Sometimes, to smooth out the plastered area, you will have to sand over it lightly. If the walls and ceiling of the room have dust on them, clean the walls with a damp rag. This will give the paint better adhesion.
Using painting tape, cover the edges of areas that are not to be painted. This includes things such as the edges of windows, window sills, electric outlets, lighting, and so on. Many people use masking tape for this purpose, but painting tape is easier to use and is usually easy to remove when you are done without damaging your paint job. Of course, if you have a steady hand and are a pretty decent painter, you can skip the masking part altogether.
Sometimes priming is necessary and other times it is not. If the surface is an extremely dry surface that hasn ' t been painted in a while, it may simply soak up your first paint layer forcing you to give the wall a second coat. In this case, it is cheaper to simply paint the walls first with a coat of primer and then simply paint over the primer.
You may also need a primer coat when you are painting a light color over a dark color. Otherwise, if the wall is in good shape, you may only need to put primer over the areas where you have patched. If this is the case, you can use what is known as a hot dog roller to quickly distribute the primer to the appropriate places. Primer should take no more than an hour or two to dry, and after that, paining should be a snap.
