It is usually around spring time that most people turn their attention to their home and the condition of the paint job on it. As spring time is the perfect time to get to work on painting your house as the weather is not too hot and most of the time it has stopped raining so you can get a clear run at it and get it finished in one hit.
However there is always the tedious task of surface preparation before you get into the exciting part of actually applying the colour which let’s face it is really the fun part because you get to see an immediate transformation with the colour.
Most of the time, not always but in a majority of cases you can get away with just washing the surface to be painted. This is what most Melbourne House Painters do usually with painting a room indoors and also with outdoor areas if they have not been exposed to the harsh elements of the weather. Still there is a process that needs to be followed when doing a preparation wash down prior to painting.
Reminder of the steps to follow:
– If the paint surface is dirty (grease, grime, nicotine, fingerprints …), it will wash it with mild detergent diluted in water, always ending with a rinse with clean water and dry completely. Attention walls should always be leached from bottom to top to prevent sagging sales.
– If cracks are visible on the surface to be painted, it will open with a triangular scraper, and then close securely to plaster, and finish by sanding, once the plaster dry. If the cracks are too important because “living” (due to variations in materials, so they affect the entire thickness of plaster or wall), it is possible to put a glass cloth, composed of very strong fibres and presented in rolls before painting. Cracks will take much longer to reappear. Please note that the first layer of paint on a canvas of glass must be an acrylic painting that will not damage the coating. If you opt for this choice, avoid paper to paint reliefs and settle for a smooth surface, always reliable. Latest paper to paint, to support new arises as wallpaper and replaces sandpaper. Smooth, it offers the possibility to apply a coat of paint over single or effect.
– If the old paint is peeling, it will remove the damaged with stiff wire brush paint, then sand the surface with a sandpaper medium grained and fine-grained.
Also read: choose the right shades of colour
Trap # 3: missing paint along the way (or buy too!)
What’s more annoying than finding yourself in painting classes in action or be obliged to report to the store 10 litters pot remains on our hands? To prevent this from happening, only one solution: carefully calculate the number of litters needed prior to commencing the job.