7 Tips To Keeping Safe While Interior Painting in Rolling Hills, CA

The interior painting of your home can be something that you find yourself doing once in a while, depending on the size of your home and how recently it was that your interior rooms were last painted.

It’s a good idea to do what you can to stay safe, as you might get hurt if you are not careful — but with a little basic preventive effort and care, you can stay safe.

Let’s look at seven tips to keeping safe while interior painting in Rolling Hills, CA

1. Use The Right Kind Of Paint

The first thing you’re going to need to do to make sure that you stay safe while you are painting the interior of your home is to make sure that you are using the right kind of paint.

By this, we mean that you should not be using paint that should be used on the exterior of your home for interior purposes – even if that happens to be on sale when you are looking to buy paint.

Interior paint is meant to be used for your home interior and is safe for that kind of use — whereas exterior paint should never be used on the interior of your home as the fumes will be quite different.

2. Always Ventilate While Painting

There are some paints that are designed to have low emissions of volatile organic compounds, and some which might even have none, and yet you should always have a good ventilation system going on when you are painting.

One way that you can do this is by having open windows in the room where you are painting and perhaps open the door or doors as well.

3. Protect Your Eyes

The process of painting your interior can often involve things that could easily harm your eyes if they are not protected.

The dust that can fly about, as one example, can easily hurt your eyes — but if you wear protective goggles you can be sure that your eyes will be safer as a result.

4. Ensure Your Ladder Is Firmly Placed

Of course, you know that getting up on a ladder is inherently dangerous, but can it be safer?

Indeed it could be — if you make sure that you put down the ladder you are going to be getting on in a safe manner — that none of the legs are at all shaky and the like.

5. Do Not Rush The Painting

When you’re painting the interior of your home, you want to make sure that you don’t rush the process as spills and falls are the most likely when you do this.

The best thing that you can do is to paint at a slower and more steady rate — this will lead to fewer mistakes as well.

6. Take Care When You Lift

One of the biggest injuries that you can too easily cause when you are painting the interior of your home is to your back, and this can happen if you are not careful while lifting.

If you are lifting up things that are even not that heavy for you but you do it at a bad angle as it were, you could hurt your back — you have to be careful with how you are lifting things.

7. Let The Paint Dry!

Lastly, you are going to have to make sure that you allow your paint to fully dry both when you have finished applying your first coat as well as after you have applied your second (and presumably last) coat.

There is no reason for you to stick around in the area while you are waiting for the paint to dry — it would be far better for you to go somewhere else during this time period so you are not exposed to the fumes of the paint at all.

Cooley Brothers Painting is a locally owned, owner-operated, family business in Torrance, California. Call the office at 310-378-4575 or email us: info@cooleybrothers.com. You can also use our contact page to reach us.

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