How important is it to wash living room wall before painting?
miss_marble
17 years ago
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How to wash walls before painting ... and other prepping
Comments (1)What!??!?! You have cobwebs...hee-hee!! ;-) A sponge-mop is great for high walls! * See if you can locate one with a head that screws onto a broom-threaded pole tip. * You can then screw the mop-head onto your extendable painter's-pole and wash away! You are correct on washing...start the suds from bottom-UP. This way, any dirt/cleaning-solution just runs down into more cleaner. If you need to lightly rinse, do this from TOP-down. Get a good, stiff, extendable painters-pole! It can help minimize ladder-use. In the summer, use it for squeegee-ing those windows! >>> If you have smooth ceilings, or an edge scraped off a popcorn ceiling, the cut-in roller-pads can help. You can just stand on the floor and cut-in a ceiling 15' high! >>> Don't leave a heavy ridge at the bottom of the pad's path...feather-it down to a hazy edge. >>> If some of your vertical INSIDE corners are rough, run a little bead of painter's-caulk all the way up/down, and tool it smooth with a wet finger. >>> Same applies to wall/ceiling joints, and trim-to-wall edges. Faron...See MoreNeed an easy and non smelly way to clean my walls before painting
Comments (9)"I've read the TSP has a really "heavy" smell and you have to be careful with it and make sure that you get it all of the wall or paint won't adhere." TSP does not have much of a small at all. It is about the most powerful cleaner that is commonly available. Its biggest hazards is that it burns skin and can stain (darken) woodwork (floors are the big victim). TSP also REQUIRES a separate rinse to ensure it is removed. ANY residue will damage the new paint (it is that strong). If the walls are not filthy Spic and Span should do fine....See MoreHow to prep kitchen walls before painting them?
Comments (2)sonal, I don't know the condition of your kitchen. Only you would know that, so here are a few things you might examine as far as prep. Are your walls subject to moisture, where does the moisture when cooking something on the stove go to? Do you have good ventilation? Are your walls subject to grease splatters or food splatters? Most of the time kitchens as we all know them can be a little more messy than our other rooms. Yes, I like chloe's suggestions for cleaning your walls if they consist of any of the above. Make any necessary repairs if needed, sand, make sure all dust is removed, prime with a medium gray primer(battleship gray); let dry and then paint with one of your chosen colors. 2 coats . Question: Have you painted with the Aura paint before? It starts to set up a little quicker than the typical vinyl acrylics do, so just know when you roll on the Aura, just roll and keep moving. Don't keep rolling back and forth or do not go back into the paint once you have brushed or rolled. Pick up any holidays,etc on the second coat. Watch the temperature in the room also. good luck. :) finished color should look great....See MoreWindow/door trim: how important is matching every room?
Comments (12)I would definitely notice because I am just a tad obsessed with trim, and I consider a variety of trim to be a feature, not a mistake. In fact, in houses where everything matches, especially if it's boring trim, my eye desperately wanders the place in search of variety! I realize that's unusual. The rules of decorating to objective standards do dictate matching or at least harmonizing trim, and it can have a nice unifying effect. I think the primary question is really this: do YOU care if your trim all matches? Do you want to meet an objective standard (for example, to put the house on the market), or just your own? If you do care, then the other question is: what kind of trim do you want in your house? If you like the original, then you want to at least harmonize with that as per your plan. But if you don't like the original anyway, I wouldn't feel bound by it at all. It doesn't really sound like something that any other trim would "clash" with, even if it's not mitred. (Unlike Palimpsest, I'm not reading that you like the original - maybe I'm missing something). You could probably do a mock-up with paper panels to see if your idea would meet your standards. FWIW, I live in what Palimpsest describes, a hundred year-old house which already had a couple of kinds of trim when we moved in, the 100-year old and the 50-year old (in the addition). I love the 100, and hate the 50, although we have lived with the 50 for 16 years and are just getting around to changing it. But we lost a bunch of the 100 because we changed some of the doorway sizes when we renovated the old part of the house at the outset. We chose one primary style then to replace it, but already can't get that one any more... it's too wide for some applications anyway... and I like different mouldings anyway... so our house is (or will be when it's all installed) a mish mash. I look down my hallway (it's a linear house) and see four successive doorways with four different trims. And yes, I even have a couple of corner-blocked openings in a houseful of mostly miters. It's possible that it works because the house is old and eclectic anyway, or because it's the opposite of open-plan, or that I just can't see that it doesn't work :-) Mitering can be difficult if you don't have either good angles or the right tools (a miter saw and accurate ways to measure and transcribe), and takes some practice. There are right and wrong ways to do it, and a correct sequence in which to do the pieces - information is, as always, available on line. If you're painting, you can fill cutting mistakes, but I suspect it would show. KarinL...See Moremiss_marble
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