Preparation of walls for painting, leveling the surface

Repair of an apartment, the house can be perfectlysimple, if all carefully thought out, provide for. Selection of paints, tools, preparation of walls for painting are very important for the design of any room. Scheme of plastering and painting the walls.

Types of surfaces to be painted

The most common design of apartments, premises is painting. Striped wall painting scheme.To understand how, you need to decide on the type of wall surfaces, as well as financial capabilities. The surfaces that can be painted are of various types:

• smooth putty, plastered;
• textured plastered;
• faced (tiles, wallpaper, panels).

In each individual case, we mean our ownpreparation. Most of the time and effort is spent on leveling, shpatlevanie and plastering the prepared surfaces. It is very important to remove old paint, mold stains, rust, fungus from the walls so that in the future the room had the same beautiful look originally conceived. Back to contents</a>

Surface Alignment

Technology of painting walls. This is possible in the following ways:

Grinding of existing coatings. It is used for sufficiently strong coatings that are not damaged. Sometimes it is enough to remove the old painting by sandpaper, grinding bar. It is necessary to treat the walls with an antiseptic, cover with a primer. All unevenness, damage from the fungus, dampness is cleaned, sealed with plaster, then puttying the walls for painting.

Plastering. When peeling plasters, swings, irregularities, a complete replacement of the wall covering with plaster or plasterboard lining is most often performed. Drywall and plaster are too porous, and therefore the whole surface is covered with putty. Alignment ends with a primer coating, which should be allowed to dry for 5-6 hours.

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Putties

Rollers for painting walls. At the beginning of these instructions, the starting putty is prepared, which contains fine sand and can be applied by a layer of 3-4 mm wide trowel (60-80 cm) and small (20-25 cm). Spatulas use wooden, steel, rubber. Grasping of the solution occurs in 45 minutes. During the preparation of walls it is better to use reinforcing nylon mesh with cells of 2 millimeters. For this, a layer of putty is applied to the surface, a grid is applied on it and pressed down with a spatula. A new layer of putty is applied from the top with a finishing variant. After 6-8 hours of drying the applied solution, it is possible to start grinding with a coarse abrasive mesh 120. The final stage is the finish putty, which is applied by a layer no more than 1.5-2 millimeters, while the solution should not contain sand. Smoothening of the walls for painting, obtaining a glossy flat surface are produced on the wet surface with a putty mix having a consistency, like liquid sour cream. This is done by a rectangular smoothing. After the drying is finished, the surface is ground with an abrasive mesh 60-80. If you do not get a smooth surface, then you can apply several layers. Scheme of painting a concrete wall with a roller. Check the smoothness of the walls, then to start painting, you can use a lamp or a searchlight. The light from the lamp should be directed at an oblique angle, then with the help of a shadow one can see irregularities. These unevennesses must necessarily be cleaned, well polishing, so that the painting was of high quality, not spoiling the appearance of the whole room. After complete drying, the whole surface must be cleaned of dust, only with a dry cloth or with a vacuum cleaner. Back to contents</a>

Uneven surfaces and primer

uneven surfaces has a different design.

Wooden surfaces are only ground,Preliminaries eliminate irregularities, burial with special grouts. The wooden surface should be treated with special protective equipment, if necessary - stain. The walls are cleaned of dust, after which you can paint them or varnish.

Textured surface is only primed. Wallpaper for painting covered with adhesive compounds, and decorative plaster is primed with special solutions of deep penetration.

Primer is selected depending on the paint,which will cover the surface of the room. Often used antibacterial acrylic primer, which is suitable for all paints, but oil. This soil composition penetrates deeply into the material, it is not combustible, does not allow the appearance of harmful microorganisms.

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