Painting Tips
Choosing The Right Paint: Explains different advantages and drawbacks of latex and oil base paints, but also gives details of primers and sealers that are commonly used by house painters, and often necessary to achieve satisfactory results.
Choosing The Right Colors: Home Painting and Decorating - People like to try their hand at some kind of decorating in the home. Peoples tastes cover a very wide spectrum and what one person loves another may loathe. Decorating at home gives you the freedom to please yourself and not worry about impressing visitors, although very idiosyncratic and personal decorating done well, usually impresses. If you decide not to do the decorating yourself remember that the spectrum of quality in the professional decorating trade ranges from the highly skilled tradesperson Master Painter) to the unqualified, semi-skilled cowboy). An ordinary householder may find it impossible at the outset to tell which is which. Cowboys often come in vans with impressive looking logos proclaiming membership to a professional guild or federation, where the only criteria for membership is that the annual fee be paid.
Painting Procedures: Includes interior and exterior sections, which both include house painting tips, techniques, preparation methods and dozens of step by step of illustrations. And if you're building or remodeling you will also find some new construction tips to follow that can help to ensure a long lasting paint job.
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Health And Safety: This section explains some common ladder, roof ladder, and staging safety practices, as well as describing techniques that will help you prevent, minimize, and protect you from some of the environmental work hazards that may accompany a paint job. We also include a link to the EPA’s Lead Page.