To achieve a good paint job, preparation and knowledge on how to paint properly are needed. This article will teach you how to prepare and how you can paint easily, efficiently, quickly, and professionally. It will be assumed that you will paint your walls, so the examples will be about painting walls like professional painters.
1. Inspect the surfaces that you want to paint first. Look for any imperfections, damages, holes, mold infestations, chipped paint, texture, and unevenness. All of those factors can easily ruin your paint job. Thankfully, you can just go right ahead with applying some general fix on the walls by sanding and cleaning them. After that, just apply fixes or epoxy fillers on damaged areas that the sanding process was not able to fix.
2. If professional painters do not want to paint on something and they can remove it, they will remove it. Sure, taping and putting plastic is good practice. However, accidents happen. Due to that, it is much better to remove the things you do not want to get painted if you can. Even if it is just a wall outlet, remove it if you can. It is much easier to take it out than to paint around it with a roller or brush without getting some paint on it.
3. Use primers. Do not be a miser. If you will not use primers but still want to achieve a professional painters quality on your walls, do not paint at all. Primers strengthen the bond between your final paint and the wall. Some are even formulated to allow you to paint in difficult surfaces. Also, it also prolongs the life of your paint job, it makes painting and covering the wall with paint easily, and it reduces the amount of coats and paint you need to use for your final coat.
4. Professional painters do not put too much pressure on the roller. Thanks to thinners, better paint, and a good roller brush, you do not need to force your roller to lick some paint on your wall. Just letting the roller touch the wall will ensure you that some paint will stick on the wall. Do not force your roller, or you will just risk dripping or splattering around paint on your work area.
5. Do not rely on your roller alone. Rollers can paint a large area in a short amount of time with less effort. However, it cannot paint on everything. Also, the risk of getting some paint on surfaces where you do not want to be painted is high with rollers. To conquer that limitation, make sure that you keep a brush handy, especially if you need to paint on tricky places like the surface near your ceiling, floor, outlets, and baseboards.
6. Professional painters always start from the top and go through the bottom. Starting from the bottom will only make your paint make some paint dribbles or tears. Prevent that amateurish mistake, and start from the ceiling. Doing it downwards will allow you to have greater control of the paint, can allow you to use the drips, and apply coats more evenly.
