How To Protect The Floor When Painting

Step 2 prep the base photo by kolin smith.

How to protect the floor when painting.

Painting a wood or concrete floor can be a complicated process that involves floor filler sandpaper and several coats of paint. Quick drying sealers to put over painted floors. Illustration by gregory nemec. Paint rollers throw off a mist of paint that speckles everything below.

Spread either your canvas rosin paper or plastic drop cloth across your. Also it s not very flat. To make the paint adhere better and the finish last longer sand and clean the floor first. Take the following steps before you begin painting.

How to protect floors when painting. I used a couple of layers of primer on top of the leveling compound to keep the paint from soaking into the floor. Home improvement expert danny lipford shows you how to protect your floor from dripping paint. Recycle old cardboard boxes into floor protectors while painting.

If you re painting on concrete i assume you could do the same since the leveling compound is quite similar to concrete. For painting work i usually protect the floor using big sheets like 4 x 4 meters of transparent plastic sold in asda that i spread around the room. You can assemble long rows of cardboard with tape or merely overlap them. Here s the quickest way to protect doors and windows.

In fact trying to remove paint after it s dried onto the floor could damage it. Lay out tape and paint the pattern. Apply a second coat or polyurethane as needed. All you need is a drop cloth and some masking tape.

Paint the base color. When you tape around door and window trim to protect the woodwork use tape that s wide enough to project at least 1 2 in. You can easily protect your floor before you paint your walls or ceiling. So once it s done.

Keeping paint off a hardwood floor is a lot easier than trying to remove it later. To protect your wood floor 3m recommends scotch delicate surface painter s tape.