Spray painting a house interior. - YouTube

This video by ABN Painting shows preparation work that has been done prior to spray painting

the interior.

We mask off anything that is not being painted using a combination of paper plastic and tape.

When we are masking ceiling fans we usually use blue tape first.

It will help us with removing the tape, it will come off very easy when we are done,

and it also will not leave any residual glue.

We use the same blue tape when masking cabinets.

Blue tape has very little adhesive and it works great for any delicate surfaces that

can be damaged by the residual glue of the tape.

We finished preparation work in the kitchen.

The paper around the AC vents still have opening in it because we are currently using air conditioning

but once we finished with preparation work we will turn off the air and we will seal

those opening completely off.

This is one of the bathrooms that is ready to be painted.

We covered floors, bathtub, cabinets, mirrors, lights.

Me masked all hardware on the doors.

To mask the metal parts of the doors, all the hinges we stick the tape to the metal

part and then use blade to cut a straight line.

When we mask door handles we use combination of tape and plastic.

One of the options when it comes to door handles is to remove them from the door instead of

masking and although it takes only a few seconds to remove a door handle sometimes it takes

quite a bit of time to put it back on so we prefer masking instead of removing.

When we cover the floors we do it slightly differently depending on the type of surface

we are covering.

If it it carpet surface we run a piece of tape along the edges of the baseboards and

then we tuck the plastic underneath sealing it tightly from each side.

If it is a tile surface first we run a 12 in paper around the perimeter and then the

rest of the area we cover with plastic.

When we are using an airless sprayer the hose from the sprayer will come in contact with

floor all the time mostly in the corridor area so we are using slightly thicker paper

to cover that area to avoid any tears in plastic.

At this point all preparation work has been completed and the house is ready for spray

painting.

This is a small bathroom.

The master bathroom.

Laundry room.

Just before spray painting we need to dust off all surfaces that have a tendency to collect

dust such as panel doors, shelves in the closet, window jams.

When we set up paint sprayer we use the tarp underneath just in case if there is any paint

drips or spills they will end up on the tarp and not on the floor.

We start spray painting all areas that have limited space: closets, bathrooms, laundry

room using just the gun and when we are done with those we attach extension that will help

us spray paint larger areas a lot faster.

When we finished with painting we do clean up and touch ups.

Now the interior of the house looks fresh and the house is ready to be put up for sale.