Prepare Room, Move Furniture
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Most of the information I have seen about painting around furniture while working on your interior house painting project tells you to move all of the furniture to the center of the room. This really is not very helpful. Think about a bedroom or living room. If you move all of the furniture to the middle of the room, you have created a huge obstacle to paint around. Even with the proper extension pole for your paint roller, such an obstacle in the center of the room is hard to work around. it is hard to reach over this obstacle to paint the ceiling.
What Interior House Painting Blog recommends is that you move the furniture away from the walls and arrange it with a few pieces in different areas of the room. This makes it easier to work around. Think of a chain of islands spread around the room rather than a huge continent in the center. Just make sure that you leave enough room between islands and walls to place a ladder next to them.
When moving furniture, practice safe lifting. Be careful not to injure your back. I would strongly suggest you follow this link to a tutorial on safe lifting practices:
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs/d001601-d001700/d001607/d001607.html
When moving furniture, take care not to damage it. Smaller light weight pieces of furniture can be picked up and moved. You may have to slide heavier pieces across the floor. Another thing to be very concerned about is the floor. Be careful not to scratch or cut any wooden or tile floors. Also, something that you may not think of is damage to carpet. Pushing or sliding heavy pieces of furniture across carpets can buckle the carpet, creating “hills and valleys” or lumps in carpet. What you need to do to avoid damage to any type of floor is to put large pieces of cardboard under the furniture and slide the furniture across the cardboard, thus protecting the floor. Visit a retail store to ask for some large, empty cardboard boxes and collapse the boxes to have a nice sheet of cardboard to slide the furniture over. Make sure the cardboard is thick enough, and be sure to remove any staples in the cardboard. Doing this at the beginning of your interior house painting project will avoid any damage to your floors.
You must also be very careful with any electrical outlets or switches in the room. You need to turn off the circuit breakers for the outlets in the room you are working on to avoid shock. Latex paint contains a lot of water, and everyone knows that water conducts electricity. Sometimes you may need to turn off more than one breaker for one room. A foolproof way to see if an outlet is off is to use a circuit tester. Inexpensive circuit testers may be purchased at any hardware store. Circuit testers consist of two wires or bars connected to a sealled light. If you plug the circuit tester into any outlet and it lights up, you will know you were not successful in turning off all electricity to the room you want to paint and you will have to to turn off the right breaker, perhaps several. After all of the electricity in the room is off, it is safe to remover the switch plates and outlet covers so as not to get any paint on them. Place all of the screws in a glass and be sure to place it somewhere that it will not be forgotten or knocked over.
You must cover all of your furniture with drop cloths. For this, use plastic sheets that you can buy at any paint or hardware store. Buy the thicker sheets. The thin sheets of plastic are hard to unfold and also tear easily. There are also drop cloths for your interior house painting job that are paper on one side and plastic on the other. These are also ideal for covering floors. You now know the best and the quickest way to set up a room to begin your interior house painting project.
44 Responses to “Prepare Room, Move Furniture”
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July 1st, 2009 at 1:02 pm
This is a very helpful post. I also think it is important to also check out your previous post on inspecting the room before anything is moved. As you mentioned, homeowners will check over everything when the job is completed and may find imperfections that had existed before the job was started which may fall onto your company. Very intuitive post.
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July 28th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Good information. Thorough planning and preparation is the key to making a painting job go quickly. Mistakes and messes are the biggest time sink when painting interiors.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Thanks for sharing these tips. The most important is to protect the flooring. Some homes have antique wood floors, and it would be a travesty to scratch or damage them in any way.
July 30th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
All good tips, may I offer another option for faceplates. What we do is remove the faceplate/switchplate put the screw back in the fixture then masking tape the face of the outlet/switch covering it from “roller spray”. This has the added benefit in older homes where all the screws are not of a universal size and speeds up putting it all back together. Yer blog is fine, keep it up.
September 17th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
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January 25th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Great post. Thanks for the useful information.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Good stuff! Preparation is definitely key!
February 19th, 2010 at 9:19 am
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March 1st, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Right on. It’s easy to jump into a painting project thinking you can just throw some paint on your walls or cabinets. Seems though that about 50% of the work is in preparing things. This can include moving furniture, taping off, removing light fixtures, etc. Great info.
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March 9th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
I often find that it’s very interesting on how differing people can check out a room and then determine the various solutions to redecorating and or arranging it. I enjoyed reading your observations and comments and will look forward to applying a number of your suggestions when they are suitable to my circumstance. For that matter I’ve got a coworker at this moment that is the middle of a big redecorating situation and maybe I could help out.
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
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March 23rd, 2010 at 11:31 am
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April 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 pm
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April 10th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
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April 24th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
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April 27th, 2010 at 4:54 am
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May 22nd, 2010 at 5:46 am
I truly appreciate the various insights that people have regarding decorating and or organizing ones living space. Of course everything depends upon ones personal likes as to the way it all will end up. Personally I prefer to center my furniture look around different color pallets. The right colors really can help make my day.
May 24th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
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June 14th, 2010 at 2:10 am
This really is not very helpful.
June 14th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
This was a very helpful article. I have always pushed the furniture to the middle of the room in the past. Now I try to just clear the room completely.
June 18th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
This is a very informative post for those just learning how to paint interiors professionally.
June 20th, 2010 at 6:11 am
This post gives the information needed about the wide range of painting around furniture. Thank you for the post.
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August 8th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
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August 13th, 2010 at 4:18 am
I’ve looked at numerous sites and not come across such a web page as yours that tells everyone everything they need to know.
August 14th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Refinish. preparing room before they rip the carpet up. We … professional movers move the furniture because its so big.
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