How Long to Wait Between Coats of Paint?
Please be careful here: there is a danger behind easy answers to the question of how long to wait between coats of paint. Generally, people want to get it over with I know, I know.
Painting Tips Interior
Painting tips for interior painting by a professional painter
How to Touch Up Paint in 4 Steps
Learning how to touch up paint takes experience. But don’t worry, we’ll hold your hand through these steps. In decades of painting, we’ve done it a few times.
Mold Resistant Paint (with 6 Easy Steps to Paint Over Mold)
Mold resistant paint does not kill mold! But you can relax, the process of stopping mold is very do-able. A little elbow grease, a little mold killing primer (the good stuff) and you are ready to paint. Whew. I’m glad I stopped you from just painting over that mold!
Can You Paint Over Stain? “It’s not THAT Complicated”
Can you paint over stain? Any stain? Yes! These days all the realtors you work for ask you if you can paint over stain: cabinets, floors, trim. It’s like a mantra. I love wood, but sometimes you do what you gotta do. Lucky you, you don’t need to strip the varnish or polyurethane off!
Best Drywall Primer & 4 Simple Steps for Priming
For newly constructed walls, the best drywall primer is not the most expensive primer. For new walls (with no stains etc) you do not need a stain-blocker or a hole-filler.
How to Paint Behind the Toilet in 2 min (and the Bathroom in 3 Hours max)
Yes, we know how to paint behind the toilet! But if you are lazy and don’t care there is a way to only paint what you can see when you’re in there…you know, taking care of business.
Best Basement Floor Paint & Painting Floor in 5 steps
Let’s knock this puppy O-U-T. Here we will make short work of what you need to do when working with high-quality basement floor paint (and this goes for painting garage floors as well). We will list the best basement floor paints we recommend – with those, only one coat is needed.
How to Clean Paint Rollers: the Quick, the Neat, and the Lazy Way
The first tip on How to Clean Paint Rollers– it’s actually not a big mess and there is a reason you should clean them: Don’t buy cheap rollers so you can throw away! Cheap ones shed lint!
Best Interior Paint and One Awesome Timesaving Tip
The best interior will make your work A LOT easier, because the color holds longer, applies more evenly, each coat is much thicker, and it cleans up easier. We will show you a secret painting tip to go very fast. Let’s see first which paint is the best. Don’t believe commercials.
Painting Plaster Walls in 5 Easy Steps
Painting plaster walls is not at all difficult. If your house is old, it will have plaster, sometimes called ‘horsehair plaster’ on the walls. The old workers used the tail hair from horses to mix in with the plaster to give it strength.
Painting Drywall in 6 Proven Steps (Will Look As Good As Any Pro Job)
We’ll list the steps you will need to know how to prepare for painting drywall.
We’ll explain each step from the start of a brand new wall up to the finished product.
We will start by how to prep drywall for paint.
Paint and Primer in One: The Best and When to Use It
Be very careful and consider the results you will get if you use a paint and primer in one step. I have seen a lot of ads pushing this idea of one-coat painting, but that just plays to people’s idea that painting is a drag and one coat would be quick and easy. It is not messy and it is not hard to clean up.
Preparing Walls for Painting Efficiently
For re-painting walls, below you’ll find all the steps you need for preparing walls for —paintingfrom before you start up to the finished product. We will review all the potential problems you might encounter.
Room Painting Tips by a Professional: Faster, Better, Cheaper
We are not your normal painting company: we are giving away our secrets. I’m near retirement age, and I like blogging more than painting, so I’m giving away “secrets”. Here are some room painting tips that your painter won’t tell you.
Best Ceiling Paint and One Awesome Timesaving Tip
Use the best ceiling paint, it will make your work A LOT easier.
The Best Way to Clean Paint Brush
Lazy? Soak baby. The best way to clean a paint brush start simply by soaking it. We find a bath tub if there is no utility sink and we routinely put off cleaning for the night and let the brush soak in the bucket. The next day it is so easy to clean as over night the floating brush and roller lets the paint falls to the bottom of the bucket.
Paint Walls or Trim First? 3 Amazing Tips
You paint the trim first, but not using a brush! Here are 3 steps and 1 awesome secret (some pros don’t even know) on how to make this quick and easy (video included).
How to Paint a Wall? Big Tip: Skip the Tape, You Will Thank Me!
How to Paint a Wall? Let me count the ways. Ok, here is the short version: you will see all over the internet all these people telling you how to use tape, and how to clean the walls, brush first, etc etc. Well, they clearly read the manual written by someone who read a manual, but in practice, you just jump in. It’s just not brain surgery.
For Canadian Painters Only
My time living and working in Canada has always been great. One problem for a painter though: painters in the US mostly use a 5-gallon bucket, a screen, and a 9-inch roller frame/cage. Why is that? It’s fast man. Nobody ever stepped in a big bucket! Well, not as far as you know.