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Monday, April 12th, 2010

Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez H.
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It doesn’t matter if you’re painting inside or outside your home you’re going to need to mask some areas off. You can skip the masking of course (many people do because they’re in a hurry) but you’ll wind up with streaks and blobs of paint everywhere. There’s no point in saving 30 minutes of time by skipping masking and then spending 2 days making up for your mistakes right?

The Square Foot Method warrants acknowledgment, if for no other reason than to point out that although a great many painters subscribe to this method, it really is quite a stupid way to arrive at a price for a paint job. Why is a this lame way to estimate? The question is how can anyone estimate a price of a paint job by the square footage of a floor? A couple of simple examples will shine some light on the darkness of this method.

3. Walls are third in how to paint a room. I suggest leaving the trim coats to cure for 24 hours (it could take longer depending on the weather and temperature) before painting the walls. Make sure before starting that all walls have been filled and sanded before your trims are done (you don’t want dust and dirt sitting on your nicely glossed trims :-) ) The reason for painting walls after your trims is that it is easier to cut or edge back into a small edge rather than cut back into a large edge. Try cutting your gloss coat on trims back to a finished wall. It takes too much time and you can’t lay your gloss coat off properly. The result is hitting the wall and getting a very uneven finish coat on your trims.

You can get special paper that’s designed for use in masking but it can be pretty expensive and isn’t reusable so it’s not really environmentally friendly from that point of view. It’s still an option for you and a lot better than your bog standard newspaper.

If you’re really serious about protecting your floors or carpets then you need to use plastics or tarps that are designed for painting jobs. Using plastic rubbish bags won’t be enough – they also tear really easily so you know what happens then! Tarps and proper plastic covers are also reusable so you’re doing your bit for the environment here too