Living Room Ceiling Painting Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make in Unionville, PA

In painting the ceiling of your living room, you’re going to need to make sure to take care with your painting technique – there are things, after all, that you can do that will really make your living room ceiling look a lot worse if you make mistakes during the process of painting.

Conversely, if you make sure to avoid these mistakes, you can get a well painted living room ceiling — perhaps even in less time and for less money.

Let’s have a look at some living room ceiling painting mistakes you shouldn’t make if you want a well painted ceiling.

1. Not Planning Out Your Painting Project

You may think that a painting project such as one in which you are going to be painting your ceiling in the living room is going to be straightforward and you’ll just be able to decide to do it one day and start painting the next.

This is going to be a mistake almost every time – you need to know, for example, how much paint you are going to need to paint the ceiling — if you don’t know, you may well not get enough and end up having to go out to get more, which will be a waste of time and possibly money to get the extra paint (and even more so if you don’t find the paint for the original price.)

You’re also going to benefit from the planning because you will be able to determine how much time it is going to take to paint your ceiling so that you’ll be able to make a full plan for the painting process.

2. Not Cleaning The Ceiling

Some people will think of the painting process as fairly simple, insofar as they will take a surface and cover it in paint and figure that’s all they need to do.

This is not going to be a good plan for painting your ceiling, since applying paint to a ceiling that is dirty is really just going to get you a ceiling that is dirty and covered in paint.

What you’re going to want to do instead is to make the time to clean the ceiling and then you can move on to the next steps of the painting process — as long as you let the ceiling fully dry first, that is.

3. Not Letting Surfaces Dry

Speaking of surfaces and letting them dry, some people will just rush right through the painting process and not let surfaces dry – and this is a mistake.

If you, for example, attempt to apply paint to a wet surface, you are going to find that a number of painting problems will arise, depending on what you applied previously (be it whether it was a coat of primer or the previous coat of paint.)

By not allowing surfaces to dry, you are going to possibly be lifting up part of the previous coat while you are applying the next coat, and that is just going to make for an overall messy paint job that will have to likely be scrapped when you are finished with it and restarted.

The better thing to do is to allow all of your surfaces to fully dry before you go on to the next step in the process.

4. Using An Overly Long Handle

There are handles that you can get that telescope shut so that you can put them away safely at the end of the process of painting, but you have to make sure that you get one that’s for the height of a ceiling that you have.

If you get a telescoping handle for an extremely high ceiling, you’re going to end up with an extremely heavy handle and that will be, pun not intended, hard to handle.

Consider hiring a professional painting contractor in Kennett Square, PA like Left Moon Painting. We have years of experience offering residential repainting services in Kennett Square, PA. If you would like to try us, request a FREE estimate below to get started, or call us at (484) 757-5295 for more information.

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