Hall Painting Errors To Avoid in Westboro, Ontario.

In looking to improve your home, there are quite a few places you might want to think about painting, but did you know that in addition to painting the exterior of your home and the standard rooms that you may want to paint, it’s well worth painting the halls of your home as well?

However, you will find that there are certain painting errors that can easily be made that if you know about them in advance can be avoided and you make the effort to avoid them.

Let’s have a look at some hall painting errors to avoid in Westboro, Ontario.

1. Using Difficult To Clean Paint

You may think about rooms that are going to be painted and how you will be painting them with a certain gloss of paint depending on the frequency with which you will need to be cleaning the walls of that room.

For example, it’s a better idea to use a higher gloss paint in a room that is going to see a lot of traffic or use such as a kitchen – you can just imagine how easy it will be for stains to get on the walls of a kitchen and therefore how important it is for the walls to be easy to clean.

What people don’t think about is how much time is spent walking up and down the halls, with a lot of people just casually touching the walls as they go along – and when they do that they get the walls a bit dirtier each time.

It’s therefore important that you make use of glossier paint to make it easier to clean the walls.

2. Not Protecting Surfaces Before Painting

In looking to paint your halls, you’re going to need to protect all of the surfaces that aren’t being painted – and this especially means the floors.

Though you might think of yourself as a rather careful painter, you could possibly fall into the trap of allowing the paint to drip while you are painting (and this happens to pretty much everybody, no worries) and when this happens, you can bet that it’s a lot easier to lay down some protective material and allow the paint to drip than to have it drip down sans protection and then try to clean up the ensuing mess.

It’s also a good idea to do things like cover up lights in appropriate ways as well as removing the light switch and electrical outlet covers and then making use of painter’s tape to cover up the exposed areas — these too are easier to remove than to try to clean later.

3. Using Low Priced Brushes

Another big mistake that people make when they’re painting their hall is to make use of low-priced brushes.

They will go to the paint store and look at the different brushes that are available for sale and get one of the lower-priced brushes, or even worse go to a big box store and perhaps go to the area of the store where things tend to be priced at only a dollar or two and find their paintbrushes there.

They are then quite surprised when they find bristles from the paintbrush in the paint on the wall, and when they find that it is a lot more difficult to paint with the paintbrush – and to think all of this trouble could have been avoided had they just gotten a more moderately priced paintbrush.

4. Shaking Paint

Think about a good can of paint — you know that the elements of paint separate over time and so the contents have to be mixed in some meaningful way, yes?

If your first idea to get your paint mixed well is to take the bucket and shake it, you should reconsider – this is not going to be the route to go because two things are going to happen when you shake your paint rather than to try to gently stir it with a stirring stick.

One will be that your paint will not be well mixed – your shaking paint is not at all like the way that a paint store will shake your paint and get it well mixed… it’s not going to do anything remotely like that kind of shaking.

The second thing is that you will get bubbles mixed into your paint, which you do not want to ever see — and these will be the sorts of bubbles that you will subsequently see on the surface that you have painted, which is quite unpleasant!

The best thing that you can do if you want well-mixed paint is to make use of a paint stirrer and to properly stir it.

At Millers Painting, 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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