A fresh coat of paint is one of the easiest and most cost
effective ways to transform any room
and give it a brand new look.
Adding some color to tired old walls
will make a huge difference, and might even
add some value to your place.
In any painting job, preparation is
the key to a nice, professional-looking finish.
So I'll take you through the prep
and show you how to get the job done right.
I'm going to show you a how to paint the interior of a room.
Now, I've already cleaned the room out,
so I'm just about ready to crack into it.
Now, before we apply any paint, we're
gonna have to do a fair bit of prep.
I can see all the cracks of where all the wall boards.
If you have a look in the corner here,
you can see a big, long crack there.
I can see another one over there,
and I can see all the joins.
There was probably wallpaper here at some point.
And generally under wallpaper, there
was no stopping compound or even just one coat.
So before I paint, I'm gonna have to get a stopper in here,
skim all these walls for me.
Now, before the stopper comes in,
I'm gonna have to sand all these walls down and put
a pigmented sealer on so it's got something for the stopping
to take.
So I've got a fair bit of before we start painting.
Of course, if your walls are already in good condition,
you won't need to get in a stopper.
And if you have a room with new wallboard
which has recently been stopped on the joins.
then simply apply a wallboard sealer before two top coats.
OK, I'm just about ready to crack out and sand these walls.
A little tip-- use one of these nice little lightweight
orbital sanders.
Really, really easy to use.
And the great thing about them-- they're really quick to change.
Got a little bit of Velcro on the back there.
So I've got a 120 grit, sanding grit on here.
If your walls are in pretty bad condition,
you could go down to 100 or maybe even 80.
But basically we just want to give the paint something to key
to.
So a 120 grit will probably do you fine.
Now, give yourself a good mask and a good bit
of air protection.
Sand down all the walls, brush off the dust,
and then apply your pigmented sealer.
OK, I've just about finished my pigmented seal.
Now, the reason I'm doing this is
because these walls were pretty rough,
and this is going to set it up for our plaster.
Now, if you're in the situation where
you have installed some wallboard,
and it's been up for quite a while,
and it hasn't got any plaster or paint on it,
and it's started to go a little bit yellow
and what we call "sunburn," then you're
best to also put a pigmented seal on.
That way, you're ensured that the plaster
is going to key to the wall.
Leave the pigmented sealer to dry for 24 hours,
then get the stopper in.
OK, the stopper's been in, and the walls are looking
fantastic, a huge difference.
Now, as you can see, there's a huge amount
of dust on these walls from all the stopping.
So we are going to have to clean that down.
But before I do that, I'm going to come in with my sander.
And I just want to touch up these architraves.
As you can see, pretty rough.
There's a lot of paint dripped everywhere.
So before I go and paint any of these,
we're just gonna sand them back and make them look good.
OK, they're looking nice and tidy.
Now, just before I crack into it,
I'm going to remove this door.
A couple of different reasons.
One is because there's not much get underneath the door,
and so nine times out of 10, when you get carpet down,
you're gonna have to trim the door.
So to do this, we're gonna have to take the door off.
And also it's a lot better finish on the door
if you paint it outside of the room.
Now, to get the door off, what we're gonna do
is pop the pins out of the hinge, and then just remove it.
If you've got an older style door that
doesn't have pins in the hinge, you'll
have to unscrew it from the inside.
Then I'm going to come in with my broom, dust the walls down,
make sure everything's looking fantastic.
I'm starting with an undercoat of pigmented sealer
on the ceiling and walls.
Then we'll paint the architraves, scotia, and door
with a primer.
Then fill any gaps and cracks, sand, and spot prime.
From there, we'll give the ceiling two top coats
before we do our walls.
Then we'll move on to give our walls two top coats,
and finish off by painting any doors, door frames, skirting,
and window frames.
I've applied a pigmented sealer as an undercoat,
as this is the best practice after a full skim.
Any painting job starts by cutting in.
Use a small brush to get into places your roller can't reach.
After I've cut in with a brush, I'm
using a roller on the walls.
Now, for all my architraves, scotia, and skirting,
and all the trims around the window,
I'm using the quick dry.
This is a fantastic product.
It's gonna dry in about 20 minutes,
and I can recoat after about 2 hours.
I'm giving the door a sand with this nice little handy sander
here with a 180 grit on it.
I've applied my primer.
Now I'm just applying my first top coat.
Now, for today I'm only gonna give it one top coat,
purely because I'm gonna wait for my carpet
to go down, because I know I need to chop the door down.
So I'm gonna chop the door down, and then I'll
give it a light sand on the bottom where I've cut it,
and then I'll apply my last top coat.
Now, the top of I'm using is the same as the skirting, which
is Enamacryl This is gonna give a nice, solid finish,
and it's gonna take a few knocks.
I'm using a flexible gap-filler to fill any cracks
around the room.
And I'm using an easy to sand interior rapid-filler
to fill any nail holes.
Now I'm using a 180 grit sandpaper
to sand back the filler that's in the nail holes.
And then finish with a spot primer.
OK, I'm just about ready to paint my ceiling.
I've already put masking tape around my scotia,
so I can start painting right up to that.
I'm gonna use my two inch wide brush
to cut in first before I roll.
The type of paint I'm actually using
is a specially designed flat paint for ceilings.
So if you do have any imperfections,
it's gonna hide it.
I've given the ceiling two top coats, leaving the coat
to dry for three to four hours before applying
the second coat.
OK, it's time to paint our walls.
Now, I'm using the SpaceCote Flat.
The great thing about this, it's very durable.
It's great for high traffic areas,
and it's also scrubbable.
Now, so I'm starting to paint from the top of my skirting
to the top of the scotia.
Again, I'm cutting in first, then using my roller.
Leave the first coat to dry for three to four hours
before applying the second coat.
OK, I'm just about to paint my skirtings.
Now, I am using this waterborne Enamacryl.
The great thing about this, it's really hard-wearing,
just like an enamel paint.
But the good thing about it is, there's no solvents, so we
don't have to use any turps to clean up,
and there's no nice nasty smells.
I'll eventually give this two coats,
leaving it to dry for three to four hours between coats.
The type of paint I'm using on my window and my door trims
is exactly the same as the skirtings,
except for it's a different color.
There we have it.
With the proper prep and a fresh coat,
we've got this room looking like it's brand new,
and it was easy as.