DIY Tips covering floors before painting walls. Interior house painting hacks & tutorials
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- Interior house painting tips and hacks: getting ready and prepping before painting. Tips covering your floor before painting walls. House painting tips, tutorials, and instructions for the DIY and painting professional. Home improvement painting tips and hacks for professional painters.
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Thanks Chris. The "hack" should be a monthly thing!!! Like caulking hacks, drywall hacks, ceiling hacks, sanding hacks, touch up hacks!!!!! Those would be sweet!!! Too bad there's no "hack for cutting in 12-14 foot vaults with scarlet red :(
Chris you seem like a genuinely good person. It would’ve been an honor to apprentice under you rather than those asshats who taught me. Keep doing what you do big guy. Guys like you are the reason people should respect this trade just as much as every other.
Thank you!
Awesome i like how you repeat the tape and paper! went into home depot and theres 100's of tape!
Chris, ever do a video on starting an interior "only" painting business? Is this a niche business a sole proprietor can make decent money in? Focus on quality work, start small, see how it grows, expand when appropriate? Just wondering......
OK. Sounds great.
This is how to do it.
1. cut a large red onion in half.
2. place each half in it's own bowl of cold tap water.
3.Be sure water line is just below the cut onion.
4.(This is important)Close all windows and doors in the painted room.
5.Now.. the hack does it's job.
6.The next day...
No paint or onion smell!
note: A larger room may require more of the above.
If you like it and work's for you let me know,Chris.
Thx,Roger
Aloha,Chris. Here is what I know...
The Onion is a organic filter that naturally absorbs. It has membrane property's. The water is so the onion doesn't stink up the surrounding area ( case in point the painted room or anything that stinks up a enclosed area.
I switched from green to blue it's a little easier on the pockets but I run my tape the have my guys run a damp rag to get that edge to gel ahead of the paint makes for beautiful lines and way less clean up paint life babyyy
Thank you very much. I learn a lot from you👍👍👍👌👌👌✌️
Ooo.ya! My T-shirt size is large..
I like the Charlie's angels print. LOL
Great video with great tips. Thanks for another awesome video.
Nice video & your tools awesome
Thank you!
Stuff the drop cloth under neath. The overspray will blow underneath the loose drop cloth and send overspray all over underneath
Do you ever apply clear caulking to the gap between a hardwood floor and the baseboard? I have a visible gap, and I'm wondering if that's a good idea.
I am wondering too.
No, because the flooring can contract and expand and the calulking could mess it up
Great job explaining, very helpful video
Chris - Do you have a video that covers cleaning old interior walls before painting. I couldn't find one... I have to paint the complete interior with dirty walls that haven't been painted or cleaned in a decade. Lots of dirty walls from head to waste level in halls, stairways and around doors. Thanks for all you do.
I know it's been a year and maybe you've already found your answer, but still... First dust your ceilings and walls with vacuum cleaner brush attachment, maybe later use a microfiber mop to catch additional dust. Then, degrease with either dishwashing detergent or TSP. You may have to wash the wall and ceilings more than a few times to ensure complete grime removal. Then rinse if needed and then wait for it to dry. If you have any repairs to do, this would be the time. By the way, it is advisable to sand with 80 grit before priming the walls and ceilings. 2 coats of paint should go onto perfected and primed surfaces.
Thanks Chris that helps a lot!
Wow that was good
Great video Chris thank you..On this video you showed taping along the floor on the straight aways but is there any tricks to taping the floor around door jambs?
Tape on the top of base or just free handing it? for the walls
do you use water or oil based for trim?
hi chris, what is the piece of equipment called you apply the tape and paper with? where can you get them? Thanks
Hey Chris, have you any videos on paperhanging?
great videos
Yes, The cut part is facing up.
Thanks
What’s the “2020” for in the 1” tape? Does anyone know? He mentioned it in the video at 5:35? Thanks guys.
Nice video on that prep work prior to painting trim, etc. One question... How would you then paint the walls with the baseboards already painted? We usually do baseboards last, but this way is interesting if there's a good way to roll all the way down without having to cut in the wall above the baseboard. What do you guys do?
We do both ways but I'll just mask base with just 1.5 tape then roll with in a 1/4 inch of base so only need to one coat on bottom
Thank you Chris for sharing! Just one question what about tile? Do you also recommend the frog tape on tile floors or can I use the 1.5" masking as you showed for the carpet rooms?
Yes
Paint Life TV Mr. Chris you are awesome!
Chris, you never use rosin paper or RAM board to cover a floor completely?
+The Idaho Painter To cover flooring completely?
Hey Chris when you cover hardwood floors with frog tape do you mount the tape a bit on the baseboard or do you put it on the floor really close to the baseboards?
You know the one about interior paint smell..
When are you going to come visit the Big Island?
+The Idaho Painter Did you get a chance to do the video on the interior paint smell. Getting rid of the smell by using a red onion.
It works great..painters hack!
Hey man just wondering if you have any tips for me. I'm painting a new construction home w/ finished popcorn ceilings, by myself. The last one I did brush/ roll just took too long, should I try and mask the ceiling to spray or ? Any tips to save time would be appreciated, thanks.
No, I don't have to paint the ceiling
+Tony Stockell
I know you've already done this job by now, but I wanted to mention an old boss that would spray walls real thick but only go up about 3/4 of the way to the top, leaving a couple of feet before hitting the ceiling, then going right behind it and rolling out the wall to even it out. You would think that overspray would still hit the ceiling, but he got away with it somehow. I've never done it like that though, just wondering if anyone else does that...
@idahopainter question...when
masking on op of carpet with paper and 20-20 tape... you mentioned you
spray then pull. Im thinking of doing this method , but with new
trim..so i would prime first..what do u do when u prime first..you cant
pull tape..and because needs final coat.
We pull the tape after the first coat or else you will peel the paint if you let it dry on the tape
so what you are saying is that it wont work..if spraying, it can only be one coat application..and must be primed before hand?.. otherwise doesnt make sence pulling tape before job is done. thanks @@Idahopainter
also...looking closer at the video, that paint has more then dried on that tape...so im a little confused, wyou say you pull before it dries, but yet, the tape you are pulling up the paint etc is very dry..please explain. thanks @@Idahopainter
Can you do a more detailed video of applying the frog tape to the base boards? I recently painted my baseboards with your technique and I had a about a 1mm line at my base board where the paint got on my LVP flooring. I’m guessing the tape shrunk after getting wet? Fortunately, I was able to scrape it off but would like to avoid it next time! I tried “pre wetting” in a few spots with a damp cloth to activate the polymer on the tape. That seemed to work better but hard to say. In some of your videos it looks like you’re overlapping the tape on the baseboards from the floor? Doesn’t that leave part of your baseboard un painted and look bad?
Try to floss the tape under the boards.
do you back roll when you spray interior drywall?
Only need to the first time its painted after drywalling.
Just curious. Why not just use the frog tape on the tape gun with the 9 inch paper.
it does not lull very well in a tape gun
Cost.
How's it, Chris
Roger here from the Big Island, Hi.
I'm still watching you awesome videos. Was wondering if you tried out the red onion?
Keep up the great work and info videos..
How many working female house painters are there in America? 😊 I can't find the statistics.. 😔
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