Prepare, Prime and Paint a Wall (DIY)
Painting can quickly and dramatically change the appearance of a room, an apartment or an entire home. It is task that is personally rewarding, inexpensive, and fun. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Buy paint and painting tools (brushes, rollers, extension pole, stir sticks, tray, bucket, and ladder).
Purchase top quality paints, because they won't spatter or tend to show brush marks, they hide better than ordinary paints. To figure out how much paint you should use, you can use a formula: a gallon of paint for 400 to 450 sq. ft. (measure the total footage around the perimeter of the room and multiply by the ceiling height in feet). Don't subtract for windows, doors or other openings.
Look for brushes with tightly packed bristles and make sure they don't fan too much. Also get a 2" angled brush with synthetic bristles. Get a roller and attach it to an extension pole, a two or three foot roller pole for hard to reach areas and ceilings.
2. Prepare
Clean the wall(s) that will be painted. The paint will adhere batter to wall that is clean. Remove dirt, dust and grime from walls and trim with a detergent-water solution; rinse it with water and allow it to dry completely.
Using a putty knife and spackling compound fill cracks, holes and other surface imperfections.
Remove furniture from the room; cover what you cannot remove with canvas.
Using painter's tape, cover for protection trim around doors, windows, built-ins, baseboards, or ceiling. Cover floors with paper or plastic foil; you can tape it to baseboards with wider painters tape.
For larger jobs pour a couple of gallons of paint into a five gallon bucket, stir the paint, and hang a roller grid on the rim of the bucket.
3. Prime
If the existing paint is in poor condition, you have uncoated walls made of wood or drywall, you are using a latex paint to paint over oil-based paint, or you're painting lighter color paint over darker you should consider using a primer. A primer will make a surface more adhering to the paint and help reduce show-through. Use primer as you were painting with color paint (look at step below). After primer dries (look at the label for how long it should dry) you can start painting.
4. Paint
First, moist brush and rollers, then dry excess water with paper towel. Cut in 2 inch strip with a brush (with) next to ceiling, in corners, around windows, doors, cabinets and baseboards. Get as much paint on the wall as possible with a brush without dribbling it all over the. To do that simply dip the brush and let the excess drip off for a few seconds before moving the brush to the wall. With thinner coatings, however, you can gently slap the brush against the inside of the paint can to remove excess paint. To cut the edge, paint few strokes perpendicular to the edge of the ceiling or the wall and smooth over these strokes with a single, long vertical stroke. For the edge of the wall and ceiling use downward strokes on the wall first followed by smooth horizontal strokes.
Fill the well of the roller pan about half full, and place the roller in the middle of the well. Next, lift the roller and roll it down the slope of the pan, so that the roll will be covered in paint but not dripping. Roll the paint on in a W pattern without lifting the roller from the wall. Then, still without lifting the roller, fill in the blanks of the letter with vertical strokes. At the end of the stroke, raise the roller slowly so it does not leave a mark on the wall. Repeat these strokes on each wall or section of the wall.
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