7 Tips For Avoiding A Mess While Interior Painting in Ottawa, Ontario

The process of painting your home interior can be fairly complicated and unfortunately messy one — and if you go to do it without being well prepared for it you will find it can well be much messier.

Having this kind of information, however, will not only save you from making such a mess but also will help you with the overall time that it takes to complete such a project.

With that being the case, let’s now look at seven tips for avoiding a mess while interior painting in Ottawa, Ontario.

1. Slower Painting

The first bit of advice that we have to offer you here is that if you’re looking to avoid making a mess, you should try painting more slowly.

The reason this works so well is that when you are hasty in your painting, you tend to make mistakes that add up over the course of your painting.

By painting more carefully you avoid these mistakes and therefore the mess that tends to come with them.

2. Do Not Shake Your Paint

Though you should of course make sure that your paint is well mixed, you should not consider shaking the paint even if it seems like a good way to save time.

The shaking of paint will tend to incorporate bubbles into the paint that will end up showing up in your paint work — and that’s one thing you’re not going to want to see.

3. Stir Paint In A Disposable Bag

When you stir paint, there’s a good chance that some of it is going to end up spilling out over the side, even if you are careful as can be — and when that happens it can fall out onto the floor.

If you want to be doubly careful, you will take the paint bucket and only stir it carefully after placing it in a disposable bag — that way the paint that might slosh about will only end up inside the bag.

4. Use Protective Materials

There are many ways that you can protect the floors and other surfaces that don’t need to be painted.

Heavy drop cloths, for example, are an excellent way that you can protect your floors from dripping paint — much more so than lighter weight drop cloths or even light tarps, which can shift while you are walking and remove the protection you need during the painting project.

When you are looking to start painting you should look around and ask yourself where paint might possibly fall — and then protect that area.

5. Remove Furniture

A tremendously helpful way to keep a room from getting messy during the painting process is to remove as much of the furniture as you cam from it — this accomplishes a couple of things.

First, it will make sure that you don’t get paint on that furniture — this in itself is helpful.

Moreover, it will ensure that the furniture will not be in your way as you are painting — and the fewer obstacles you have during the painting process, the better.

6. Plan The Project Ahead Of Time

One of the most unexpectedly important things you can do to ensure that you have a mess free painting project (or one that has a limited amount of mess) is to plan the project fully ahead of time, before you lift the brush for the first time.

This means everything that needs to happen during the painting project gets planned out — you know how much needs to be painted, when you are going to paint, what needs to be protected, etc.

This will help you make sure that you are prepared to avoid messes before they happen.

7. Clean Sanding Dust After Sanding

Lastly, when you have finished sanding the surfaces in your home interior that need to be sanded, take the time to clean the sanding dust that comes up from the sanding process.

Be thorough in your cleaning as whatever sanding dust you don’t remove may end up in your paint work.

If you need help choosing the type of paint and painting the exterior of your home in Ottawa, Ontario, our team at Millers’ Painting Company can help.

We offer free paint consultancy alongside high-quality residential and commercial painting services in Kanata, Nepean, Barrhaven, and Westboro areas of Ottawa, Ontario.

To get started with us, book a FREE estimate or call us on 613-979-5435

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