7 Interior Painting Mistakes To Avoid in St. Louis, MO

In the course of painting the interior of your home, there are some fundamental mistakes that you might not be aware of but that if you run into them, they could easily wreck your project or at the very least delay it or cause it to cost a bit more than you intended.

The good thing as it were about these kinds of mistakes is that they are relatively easy to avoid so long as you take the time to avoid them and you know that they might be there – a bit like having a roadmap of ditches and knowing how to drive to avoid them.

With that in mind, let’s look at seven interior painting mistakes to avoid in St. Louis, MO.

1. Not Planning The Painting Project

One key thing that is possibly going to wreck your painting project or at the very least make it take significantly longer than necessary is to not take the time to plan it at all.

This means that you aren’t looking at things like measurements or figuring out when you are going to paint what — and by doing this, you just go into it blindly and aren’t sure how much paint you’re going to need as well as the kind of schedule you’re going to keep.

This could lead to things like running out of paint or ending up with too much paint — as well as just being unable to use the area being painted for an indeterminate amount of time — not something that is desirable.

2. Using The Wrong Kind Of Paint

The kind of paint that you’re going to want to use when painting the interior of your home is not at all like that which is used on the exterior.

Moreover, you are going to want to be aware of the kind of traffic your particular interior space is going to see and adjust the kind of paint you’re going to use accordingly.

3. Not Spending The Time To Clean

One fairly simple thing that a lot of people don’t do before they paint their home interior is to clean — and not just the area that is going to be painted but the area near the painting zone as well.

This is because, in the process of painting, you’re very possibly going to shift around the dust that is on the ground and as such you might get that dust or things that are on the ground onto the surfaces being painted — and that is something you should avoid!

4. Not Protecting The Floor Before Painting

When you think about painting, do you ever think about where the paint goes if it happens that there are dripping issues — and there are always dripping issues.

The answer to this is the floor, and you should believe that there is a lot more time spent in cleaning floors than there is in putting protective covering on floors — so much easier to do the latter.

Make the time to put down a good drop cloth and you will find that at the end of the paint job you aren’t going to have such a mess with which to contend.

5. Not Allowing Anything To Dry

You might be aware that when you’re painting, it’s important to allow the first coat of paint to dry before applying a second coat.

What some people don’t realize is that this applies also to others steps in the painting process, such as the application of primer to the surface that is going to be painted.

If you should happen to not allow the surfaces to dry before moving on, you are pretty much guaranteed to have painting problems later on even if they’re not immediately obvious.

6. Skipping Primer Entirely

A possibly bigger problem than not allowing primer to dry is to not use it at all.

Primer is not just another coat of paint — it is useful in helping the paint to adhere to the surface, and also makes for a smoother surface.

7. Not Taking Care Of Sanding Dust

Lastly, you need to be quite careful after you have taken the time to sand the surface that you are going to be painting to clean up the sanding dust.

The reason that this is the case is that if you don’t clean the sanding dust, it could possibly make a much bigger mess — and this would be the sort of mess you would see for years to come.

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