5 Ways To Prepare For An Exterior Paint Job in Forest Lake, MN

When you’re looking to paint the exterior of your home, you can just imagine that there will be quite a lot of work that will go into it and that it bears preparation.

Since you’re looking at spending a good number of days painting the exterior of your home, it’s a good idea to be adequately prepared for such a painting project.

With that being the case, here are five ways to prepare for an exterior paint job in Forest Lake, MN.

1. Know What Materials You Will Need Beforehand

There are few things as frustrating to a painting project as getting part of the way through it and discovering that you have run out of paint, for example.

It is better to know how much paint you are going to need beforehand, to start with, and typically this involves either using some kind of measurement system to figure out how big your home is and then using an online paint calculator to calculate the approximate number of gallons of paint that you will need.

Of course, it is better to estimate and find that you have more paint than you need than vice versa.

2. Move Everything That May Get In Your Way

When you are looking to paint the exterior of your home, the fewer things that are in the way of the painting process, the better.

This is because when you are painting, you will find these things to be like stumbling blocks and additionally can interfere in finding places to secure a ladder for when you are painting the higher areas of your home.

It is perfectly understandable that you won’t be able to move everything as some of the things around your home area will just be immovable.

3. Cover Everything You Cannot Move

While it is not possible to relocate everything outside of your home, you can cover nearly everything without any issues so long as you use the right kind of covering material, which depends on what it is you are covering.

For covering the ground in general, for example, it is okay to use a heavier drop cloth that would protect the ground from getting paint on it — or even some of the equipment that may be around your home.

Lightweight tarp, on the other hand, may be a better thing to protect that which is more fragile in nature, such as plants.

4. Arrange For Pet Care If They Like Going Outside

If you have a dog in the house or perhaps a cat that enjoys going outdoors (they do exist!) and you have an upcoming painting project, you may want to take measures to make sure that they are properly protected.

This is particularly the case if your dog is the sort that likes to run around in the yard — you can just imagine the disaster that could happen if your dog happens to catch a rope or something else attached to one of the paint buckets you have sitting outside and runs it around, getting paint everywhere.

It is better to make arrangements for your pet or pets to get care for the duration of the painting project — and if someone in your home can go with them, all the better.

5. Be Sure That You Have The Right Colors Before Starting

Though you may think that you have the right color picked out for yourself by looking at how it looks in the paint store — this is not the best strategy.

Better to get one or more paint samples fro the store and to paint a small part of the exterior of your home and see how it looks in different light conditions — it is a better way of finding the right color for your home.

At Headwaters Painting, we aim to enrich the lives of our clients by delivering a Superior Experience. We do residential and commercial, interior, and exterior painting. You can reach us at 651-278-6033 or click below to schedule a virtual estimate!