7 Tips For Avoiding A Mess While Painting Your Ceiling in St. Louis, MO

When in the process of remodeling your home, you will sometimes find that you need to paint the ceiling or ceilings in one or more rooms.

The issue with painting your ceiling, however, is that it tends to present a bit of a mess, especially if you go into your painting project unprepared and not being clear on how to prevent it.

With that being the case, here are seven tips for avoiding a mess while painting your ceiling in St. Louis, MO.

1. Wear Clothes You Don’t Care About Getting Dirty

There’s one good thing about wearing clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty while you are painting — you are a bit more careful to focus your care on avoiding a mess with the rest of your painting.

You’ll find that you won’t be getting out of the way to avoid getting paint on your clothes and as a result you won’t have that paint get on the floor or other places where it doesn’t belong.

2. Make Sure You’re Using The Right Kind Of Paint

There are many kinds of paint that are available to be used in painting the interior of your home, but not all of them are good for painting your ceiling.

The differences between typical interior paint and that which is used for painting your ceiling are important, one of them being that the ceiling paint you use will drip much less than other paint.

This is good because even though any paint will drip (it’s liquid, and gravity will do its work on it) you will find that paint meant for painting your ceiling will drip much less.

3. Paint More Carefully

Sometimes people will work to paint with haste, wanting to get their paint done and over with.

This kind of approach will be fine if you want to get the painting project done but it will with a price – you will likely make mistakes, and you are very likely going to make a bigger mess than if you painted with care.

Painting quickly means that it gets done, but often you will apply the paint too thick or too thin, and sometimes it means that paint will get places it is not meant to be.

4. Remove Electrical Outlet Covers

For the most part, you’re not going to make use of your electrical outlets and those you do use are going to be for the purpose of plugging in your light or lights so that you see what you’re doing.

Those outlets that aren’t being used can get a bit messy, but you can prevent that by fully removing the outlet covers and then covering the area with painter’s tape — it’s easier to remove that kind of tape than to try to get paint off of an outlet cover.

5. Remove Furniture From The Room

You’re going to be moving all around the room and as such you don’t want things to get in your way during the painting process.

One thing you can do to help yourself with this is to make sure that you remove as much of the furniture from the room as possible so that it does not get in the way.

If there is any furniture that you just cannot remove, you would do well to move it to the middle of the room as best as you can and then to cover it with some sort of tarp to prevent paint from getting on it.

6. Cover The Floor With Heavy Drop Cloth

Drop cloth is the sort of thing that is just about perfect for when you are painting your ceiling as it will protect the floors and, best of all, not shift around when you walk.

This is good because if your floor covering moves, it’s just as good as having no floor covering at all.

7. Use Paint Trays

When you’re painting your ceiling, you should make use of painting trays and not just try to paint directly from buckets.

This is important because having a heavy paint bucket and trying to paint from that is likely going to make you spill it and make a mess.

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