How to Prepare for a Painting Project

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Go ahead and move what furniture you can outside the room.

   Move what’s left into the center of the room and cover with some plastic covers or drop cloths (both you can find at any hardware stores).
   
   Use removable masking tape around moldings, doors and windows, and drop cloths to protect floors, make sure that the tape is safe to use. ,,, Using a putty knife with joint compound to fill in all the holes and cracks.
   
   If you should see some cracks between your crown molding, baseboard, around windows or doors, go ahead and caulk all the areas., For more information on that you can give us a call and we will be more than happy to assist you or you can look it up on YouTube., If you do not, you will see all the imperfections after you paint your walls.
   
   That is why you may have to go over with joint compound again.
   
   Repeat the task as many times as necessary until you have nice smooth walls.
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   Step 2: Cover all the smoke detectors with a plastic bag and turn off air conditioning or heating while sanding or painting.

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   Step 3: It is very important that you sand or scrape loose and flaky paint with sandpaper and down to bare surfaces if necessary.

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   Step 4: Walk around the room and check to see if there is any nail and screw holes cracks in the wall

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   Step 5: or any other small damages.

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   Step 6: For more serious repairs

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   Step 7: use drywall-taping techniques to patch hole in drywall.

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   Step 8: Before you start painting it is very important that you go back over all the preparing that you did

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   Step 9: and using a sander and sandpaper

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    Step 10: sand everything down smooth.

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