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Painting Tip - Prepare a Painting Tools Checklist March 19, 2007

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You’ve painted the ceilings. You’ve painted the walls. The new place looks beautiful. You are trying to finish up the door so that you can rush home to

watch the final episode of Prison Break (of course with the power of hindsight, the lousy ending is really not worth rushing back for). You begin on the door, but in the rush, you spilled some paint on the new floor. OK where’s the turpentine???

 

 

Oops! Now you remember what you have been trying to recall whole day!painting brush

 

I get customers come in with body all coloured, asking for cleaning solvents…and gloves! Others forget wooden sticks to paint their ceilings with. Once in a while you get one who forgets even the brushes and rollers. Below is a checklist of items required in a standard paint job. I will compile a pdf file in future for easy downloading. In the further future, I may even compile a excel file with all the prices inserted and updated. With this, you can work out a fairly accurate estimate of the cost of the project. But that’s in the near future. Meanwhile, please make do with a simple checklist: 1. Paint (I feel like an idiot putting this in, but better me than you..being the idiot, that is ) 2. Brushes and rollers 3. Paint trays and plastic cups 4. Paint stirrer - often overlooked…and chopsticks make poor stirrers 5. Sandpapers 6. Plastic drop cloth 7. Masking tapes 8. Cleaning rags 9. Paint thinners - for oil-based paints 10. Extension poles or wooden sticks (sticks come in 5ft, 6ft or 8ft) 11. Wall putty 12. Scraper for putty and for removing peeled paint 13. Paint gloves 14. Ladder The above are items for normal paint jobs. More specialized jobs such as epoxy painting or floor sanding will include other items such as face mask and goggles. These projects deserve separate posts. I will elaborate further for most of the tools - the correct equipment, the correct specifications, brands available in the market and the price range - in future posts. Meanwhile, if you are unsure, send me a question through the comment box below. I will reply either directly to you, or I will include in my post for the benefit of others. Till the next tip….