Before painting, make sure your walls are clean, dry, and smooth. The paint will adhere more firmly to the surface if it is properly prepared. Our interior walls have acquired many years of use and wear, and these particles act as a barrier keeping the paint from fully penetrating porous drywall.
That’s why cleaning off the places where you’ll be painting is so important not only in terms of applying the paint but also in ensuring its longevity.
Before you even consider beginning a painting job, it is important to inspect the surfaces that professional painters will work on. It’s always best to do this in daylight hours when there are no shadows or differences in light on the walls.
If they appear uneven, bumpy, and rough with holes and cracks, adding texture finish coats can help hide them.
Once you’ve prepared the surface, you can start thinking about color selection. You should select colors that complement your home or commercial building and reflect your style.
A professional painter can help you choose the right colors for your space and give you ideas to best use them.
The next step in the exterior painting prep checklist is pressure washing. This will help remove any dirt, dust, or debris on the surface of the wall. When doing this, it’s important to make sure you use a commercial-grade pressure washer, as it can damage surfaces if not used correctly.
It’s highly important to protect the surrounding areas and items you don’t want to be painted with drop cloths or by covering them with plastic sheeting.
These commercial painters can also place scaffolding around the exterior of your commercial building as well as ladders, which will help access hard to reach places more easily.
Proper preparation of commercial buildings for painting is also about using the correct caulking around cracks and holes in or on your walls. The professional painter will do this successfully, ensuring you get a long-lasting finish without any problems.
The exterior painting prep checklist wouldn’t be complete without scraping off any delaminated paint. This is especially important for commercial buildings with multiple layers of paint, as the new paint won’t adhere to the old if it’s not removed first.
If you’re priming a surface before painting it, painters will use a primer that is specially formulated for the purpose. This type of primer adheres to different types of surfaces better than standard primers, ensuring your paint lasts longer and requires less frequent maintenance in the future.
The final step in commercial painting prep is cleaning up the area after the painters have finished. They’ll remove paint cans, ladders, scaffolding, and other equipment to leave everything looking neat and tidy, so you don’t need to do anything before moving back into the commercial building once it’s ready for occupation again.
Engel Coatings offers professional painting services that guarantee the best results for your house or building. Whether you’re looking for commercial painters or residential painters, we can assure you you’ll get a job well done at affordable rates. Call us today.