Painting your house is fun
to do but it needs to be done with care and perfection. If you are want
to do the wall painting by yourself instead of using the house painting
services then here are the ten tips that you might use while giving your own
house a personal touch.
1. Remove the flaws
In order to get a perfectly smooth surface with your
favourite colour painted on it, you need to do some homework.
As a professional painting service provider in Bangalore, we
sand the walls using fine grit sandpaper
on a sanding pole from the baseboard to the ceiling before starting wall
painting.
Once that is done sand horizontally along the baseboard and
ceiling. One important tip is not to put a lot of pressure on the sanding pole or
the head might get flipped and damage the wall.
2. Use a tinted
primer
Before painting the wall, the holes and patches have to be fixed by a joint compound. But if
you will do wall painting directly over them then the joint compound sucks the
moisture out of the paint giving a flat dull look.
Without primer, those
spots look noticeably different than the rest of the wall.
Being the best painter in Bangalore we would suggest you to
use a tinted grey primer or a colour that is similar to the finish paint.
Tinted primer does a better job of covering the existing paint colour than aplain primer.
It will not only give a vibrant look to the wall but it will
also require fewer coats.
3. Use tape to avoid
leaks
The most disappointing thing is to see the paint bleeding
through the wall on the woodwork of your house. To ensure that it doesn’t
happen, do a vigorous job of adhering the tape before you start painting.
Keep in mind to use the blue painter’s tape instead of using
the masking tape for your woodworks. It’s
used byall the painters in Bangalore to give more perfection. Masking tape can
leave behind a sticky residue that is hard to clean off. Also, it causes the
tape to buckle or get wavy which let's
paint run underneath it. On the other hand, painters tape stops paint bleed
without buckling.
4. Cut the tape for
the perfect edge
Once the painting is done and dusted,
you can pull off the tape. The tape gets removed and tears pieces of dried
paint off the wall. So before taking the
tape off, cut it loose.
You can use a knife or box butterknife
to slice through the film.
5. Achieve a perfect
edge
It's almost impossible to get a straight line along the top of the wall
without getting paint on the ceiling bumps. The experts have one solution for
this. Run your screwdriver along the perimeter of the ceiling to scrape off the texture.
6. Use the right
drop cloth
One of the important things
is to avoid using bedsheet as a drop cloth. The thin sheets can’t save your
floor from the stains. Though plastic
sheets are a better option the paint
stays wet for a long time and gets messy!
Hence, it's safer to
use canvas drop cloths. They are not slippery and they absorb the paint to a
large extent.
7. Paint the walls
one by one
It does sound easy to do all the corners first and go back to the walls but don’t do it. In
order to get a seamless look in each wall of your house by cutting intoone wall and rolling and finishing
it before starting the next one. In this way, the brushed and the rolled paint gets
blend up in a perfect way! Even the professional painters in Bangalore do the
same.
8. The window and the
stains
While painting your house,
you will end up staining your window
glass anyway. Don’t worry. Let the paint get there and you can clean it by
using arazor blade. The paint will wear off in seconds!
9. Maintain colour
consistency
It might sound strange but its true. The same colour of paint
can vary in different cans. This difference in colour will be quite visible if
you will open a new gallon when you are halfway done. To eliminate this, mix
your cans of paint in a five-gallon bucket.
That’s why house painting services do the boxing.
10.
Clean the roller covers
Add this one to your list too. The fuzz that comes off while
painting the wall can be avoided by washing the roller covers. Use a mild
liquid soap and water to wash them while you
remove any loose fibre with your hands!
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