Painting advices
Tips for performing painting jobs
The guide, which you are reading, is designed for DIY and contains some useful tips for efficient painting. We will help you prepare the work surface and select the most appropriate tools for a professional job. You'll also learn how to maintain and store the tools, which will give you longer, effective, quality use.
Walls and ceilings
Protect your floors, furniture, doors and windows and other objects and installations. Clean the surfaces you want to paint and with the appropriate filler fill the holes and cracks. First paint the ceiling and then the walls.
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Remove door and window handles, latches and hinges. Fill the holes and cracks with filler (wood or epoxy putty).
With a damp cloth wipe away the dust and start painting.
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Thoroughly clean the surfaces that you want to paint. When the surface is dry, fill the holes and cracks and sand down. Apply a protective layer or a primer and a few thin layers of paint to finish.
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Metal surfaces
Use the wire brush first to remove dirt and rust, if necessary degrease the surface and wipe off the dust. Apply an anti-corrosive coating and two coats of paint.
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Maintanace of tools
Long tool life depends on proper and regular maintenance.
Not only brushes and rollers, but also paint trays, paint grids and other tools for repeated use should be properly cleaned and stored. Most importantly, the cleaning should not be delayed, as paints and coatings are fast drying and subsequently almost impossible to be thoroughly removed from the tool.
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If you haven't finished painting... don't worry, you can continue tomorrow.
Simply put your brushes and rollers in a plastic bag and wrap them well. Keep them for the next day in a cool place to prevent the paint drying out.
VOC Directive
Do you know that Slovenia, as a member of the European Union, has established a strict environmental legislation, a part of which is the VOC Directive (Volatile Organic Compounds) since 2004 on limiting the volatile organic compounds (VOC). In practice, this means that for its implementation we have to replace the organic solvents-based coatings with water-based coatings. The brushes from natural bristles are no longer very suitable for its application, a better choice are synthetic bristle brushes or a combination of both.
