Best-Kept Secrets Industrial Painting Professionals Know

By Shawn Hunter


For professional handymen, it is imperative for them to master fast and efficient techniques so that they can produce top-notch result. This is even more so when they are working in the Los Angeles industrial painting field. They know of some trade secrets that make their work highly in demand with their potential customers.

The professional handymen should be able to share these techniques with you. These secrets can help you do the work as well as they do, even when you do not hire these professionals for the job. These techniques can definitely benefit you. Here are the techniques and secrets worth remembering when it comes to the said job.

First, you should sand away any flaws. When you start with the work, you must ensure that there is a perfectly smooth surface to work on to have a perfectly painted surface. A good professional takes a lot of time to sand away surface flaws. They ensure that no spackle, joint-compound patch, and ridge are found.

The usage of tinted primer is highly recommended. This is highly useful whenever you have patch cracks and holes that are filled in by a joint compound. Just painting over this will get the moisture sucked out. If you use the tinted primer to prime the walls first, you could avoid getting a flat and dull look for your work.

Putting tape on the wall is necessary when there are parts you do not want to paint over. However, it will be very disappointing when you have completed the task but, upon peeling off the paint, you find out that some excess paints have bled through. Scraping off excess paints can be a pain. In that case, it would be good to run your putty knife over the tape to press it down for proper sealing.

Consider adding paint extender on the paint to eliminate the brush and lap marks. The extender, also known as the paint conditioner, can really level out the application, which then results to the elimination of the brush strokes. It helps slow the drying time too, which gives you a longer window to overlap newly-painted areas.

Textured ceilings can be very difficult to paint over. This is especially true when talking about the area along the edges. It will be impossible to go for the straight line. As a simple solution, you can consider scraping off your texture first. Use a screwdriver to run along its perimeter then.

Avoid using bed sheets or plastic as a drop sheet. The bed sheet is too thin to cover the floor from having the splatters and spills seep through. Plastics may be able to catch these splatters and spills but the paint will remain wet. The best one a painter should use for this is the canvas drop clothes.

Avoid starting on one wall when the other has not yet been dried. Some people opt to start with the corners and trims and then roll the paint on the wall. However, this is not ideal. It will not give the seamless look you are after. By finishing one wall beforehand, you can make the brushed and rolled paints blend better together.




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