Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Things To Remember While Painting Your Garage

Things To Remember While Painting Your Garage


There are some easy and inexpensive ways to make your old home look new. You dont have to resort to an expensive home improvement project like building a new shed using shed plans. Painting your garage is a great way to enhance your homes appeal. Here are some tips that can help you to paint the garage and beautify your home.

Make sure that you are moving the garage items out of the way. Lets face it, for a lot of people the garage not only houses the family cars but it also is the unofficial storage space for boxes, tools, work areas and chemicals. You may have many items suspended from the walls. So you will have to move these items from the walls.

There are two main approaches to this problem. You can either move everything to the middle of the garage or you will have to find a temporary home for your garage items. And of course your cars cant be parked inside the garage until the new paint is dry. Just remember, that if you decide to keep everything in the garage while you are painting, to cover them with a cloth or tarp to ensure no paint is splattered on them. This will protect your items from becoming ruined with paint splatter and with paint fumes. If you choose to house your garage items someplace else, why not build a temporary structure using lean to shed plans?

The next thing you need to do is prep the walls. You would do this by making sure that any rust or bubbles are removed. Using a sander is probably the easiest way to take care of this essential item. A sanders can be easily purchased from any home improvement store and it will be well worth the expense for the amount of time and energy it will save you. And while youre there make sure to purchase some primer too. This will help your paint to go on smooth and to make sure that the paint job lasts.

Third, you will begin to paint the garage. To make sure you have enough paint, measure the size of your garage. Or rather, get the measurements of your garage and then when you go to the paint supply store they can tell you how much paint that you need to buy. This will prevent you from either buying too much paint and wasting it later, or not having enough to complete the job which will make you have to go buy more in the middle of your project. There is nothing worse than when you start a painting project and you find at the last moment, usually after youve started painting, that you dont have enough paint for the job. You will then have to go back to the store to buy more paint and you might have difficulty getting the exact matching shade created a second time. If a long amount of time passes by then the paint jobs can dry differently and the color will look different. Were sure this is not the effect you are going for, and youll end up wasting time as well as money.




Things To Remember While Painting Your Garage