Tips On Painting Primer
Apr/28/08 08:45 AM
Well the sheet rock is up and so we decided to spray the primer this weekend. If you have gutted your house down to the studs and put up new drywall, then I highly suggest spraying on the primer. It is much much faster than rolling.
That said, I’d like to offer up a few tips that I figured out the hard way.
- 1.Cover your floors, even if it is just the subfloor.
- 2. If you rent a sprayer, be prepared to shell out some extra $ for a good working tip, because the one you get will be a piece of $#!*.
- 3.Buy an extra 5 gallon bucket of primer (since you can return leftover primer, unless it’s tinted). Otherwise you will end up going to the home center mid-job, looking as I did (above). And yes the cashier laughed out loud at me.
- 4.Wear a shower cap.
- 5.Start early, first coat before lunch, second coat after. I started right before lunch and second coated after dinner. After the second coat and clean up it was 1:00 in the morning on a work night.
One other thing, here in the south we always complain about how everything is closed on Sundays. The one instance that it actually works out in your favor is with rental places. If you rent it on Friday then you have to return it on Saturday. BUT, if you rent it on Saturday, then you don’t have to return it until Monday; and you only get charged for one day!