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Most of the information you’ll see about painting around furniture while working on your interior house painting project will recommend moving 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 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 center of the room is hard to work around. It’s hard to reach over this obstacle to paint the ceiling.

What interior painters Perth recommend is that you move the furniture away from the walls and arrange it with a few pieces in different areas of the room. This makes it easier to work around. Think of a chain of islands spread around the room rather than a huge continent in the center. Just make sure that you leave enough room between islands and walls to place a ladder next to them.

Cover all of your furniture with drop cloths. For this, use plastic sheets you can buy at any paint or hardware store. Buy the thicker sheets. The thin sheets of plastic are hard to unfold and also tear easily. House painters Perth also recommend certain drop cloths that are paper on one side and plastic on the other. These are also ideal for covering floors.

The Floor

Another thing to be very concerned about is the floor. Be careful not to scratch or cut any wooden or tile floors. Also, something you may not think of is damage to carpet. Pushing or sliding heavy pieces of furniture across carpets can buckle the carpet, creating “hills and valleys” or lumps on the carpet. A tip from interior painters Perth to avoid damage to any floor is to put large pieces of cardboard under the furniture and slide the furniture across the cardboard, thus protecting the floor.

Visit a retail store to ask for some large, empty cardboard boxes and collapse the boxes to have a nice sheet of cardboard to slide the furniture over. Make sure the cardboard is thick enough and be sure to remove any staples in the cardboard. Doing this before house paintiers Perth start their job will help prevent any damage to your floors.

Electrical Outlets

You must also be very careful with any electrical outlets or switches in the room. You need to turn off the circuit breakers for the outlets in the room you are working on to avoid shock. Latex paint contains a lot of water, and everyone knows water conducts electricity. Sometimes you may need to turn off over one breaker for one room. A foolproof way to see if an outlet is off is to use a circuit tester.

 

 

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