When You Should Paint During a Home Renovation?

So, you’re planning a new painting project. Good for you! The right paint job can refresh, revitalize and renew any room in your home, or your entire home, for that matter. If you’re doing a home makeover or home improvement that involves more than just painting, however, you may have some questions about if paint should be applied first or last during your home renovation project. Many people believe a painting project should always come first,...

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Prepare Rooms: Move Furniture!

Most of the information I have seen about painting around furniture while working on your interior house painting project tells you to move all of the furniture to the center of the room. This really is not very helpful. Think about a bedroom or living room. If you move all of the furniture to the middle of the room, you have created a huge obstacle to paint around. Even with the proper extension pole for your paint roller, such an obstacle in the...

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Remove Wallpaper: Interior Toronto and Durham Region House Painters

Nothing has changed in https://www.emeraldpainting.ca/ for some time. Now I will be adding a series of interior house painting instructions, as well as more information on the hazards of lead paint, wearing the proper respirator during painting projects and other safety precautions. I am beginning this series of articles with a post about removing wallpaper. For this job you will need sheets of plastic drop cloths, a garden type sprayer, and a wallpaper scraper with a razor blade that can be changed when dull, or a spackle...

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Don't Paint Outside in the Fall!

Although this website is https://www.emeraldpainting.ca I feel compelled to warn against painting the exterior of a house or other structure in the fall. You might say “Why not? The weather is great for working outside, not hot and humid. It’s a great time to paint outside.” Although it is comfortable for the painter, it is not comfortable for the paint. A lot of exterior painting is done in the fall, and this is a bad mistake. In my successful house painting business that I started in June 1970, I would not schedule any outside painting...

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