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View Poll Results: paint walls/eiling first or sand floor first?
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sand then paint
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30th March 2008, 01:19 PM #1
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Would you paint the walls or sand the floor first ?
If you paint walls first, would the dust from sanding kinda ruin the nice fresh paint job?
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30th March 2008, 07:33 PM #2
Sand then paint... provided you're using good drop covers!
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30th March 2008, 07:42 PM #3
paint then sand
1. if you are getting it done it will be cheeper to paint it first cos the painter wont have to woriie about thick drop sheets. the walls would have to be cleaned to remove all the dust if sanding was done first.
2. any good sanders will leave the house spotless. the dust dose not settle on the wals anyway.
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30th March 2008, 09:15 PM #4
If you dribbled paint like me it would not matter where you put the drop sheet, the paint would still get on the floor.
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31st March 2008, 09:47 AM #5
Hmm, I'd sand or prep the walls, sand the floor, then wash down everything, cover the floor with drop cloths not plastic, paint walls, finish floor.
Why? hopefully only 1 washing of the room...
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31st March 2008, 11:12 AM #6
Both ways, you're sorta buggered.
I painted the walls, then sanded the floor. The fine dust DID settle on the walls, and I had to do a wet wipe with a damp cloth. If you look closely, some areas you can see a slight colour tinge from the fine wood dust (hard to get all of it off), but I've too many jobs assigned by the missus, I just decided to move on and not be too particular. Sigh, one of those things. If time were not an issue ....
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31st March 2008, 11:26 AM #7
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Having done it both ways, if you get a good sander, I'd now rather be vacuuming the walls than scraping paint spatters off a floor. Especially if the walls are a medium darker colour.
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31st March 2008, 03:26 PM #8
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31st March 2008, 05:31 PM #9
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31st March 2008, 07:24 PM #10
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I would cut in on bottom edges, then get floor sanded sealed and beading put on and then paint walls.
The walls do get dusty and walls do get scuffed and marked by sanders/finishers. At least if you paint bottom edges first you don't have to cut in near the beading.
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31st March 2008, 07:46 PM #11
I painted the whole house and dribbled paint everywhere.... such joy dried my washed brushes on the floor and carpet then ripped up the carpet and got the floor sanders in and the floor done.
after it was all over there was a small layer of dust on the walls which we broomed /washed off.
It was annoying to have to do but much less than stuffing round with drop sheets that you trip on and set up only to misfire....
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