How do you prepare your previously painted walls for repainting?
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How do you prepare your previously painted walls for repainting?
Clean with sugar soap and water. Cut in with tape.
Yep, wash with sugar soap. We also fill in any holes or cracks before painting too.
Good luck!
If you are painting over oil based paint with water-based paint you will need to use an undercoat, so check with your paint shop.
Thanks for the replies.
I usually wash with sugar soap first but my BIL was supposed to be doing some painting for us and looked at me like I was crazy when I insisted he wash the walls after he sanded them.
Anyhow, good to know I am right lol.
BIL is a dork. How else do you get all the dust off? lol
It depends on how dirty the walls are.
I didn't wash the walls here much when I repainted, just sanded and dusted them down.
He worked for a professional painter and so of course he knows everything. I can see how sanding and dusting would work if the walls are clean, but if there is fly poo all over the place then I don't think it is unreasonable to give them a quick wash over.
Anyhow, he decided he couldn't handle the difference of opinion, made up a barely believable excuse and left. Downside, no painting gets done. Upside, BIL isn't here lol
Yes my father's a painter and that is what he does, brushes it if the wall is clean, but washes it if dirty. So he's a little bit right.