Bathroom Painting Prep To Understand In Rolling Hills, CA

Your bathroom is one of the most important rooms in the home — there are few rooms that you can say about them that you necessarily use it every day, after all.

You’ll find that when it comes to making your bathroom look nicer, one thing you can do is to paint — and if you are well prepared for the painting project, it will work out quite a lot better than if you just start in on it unprepared.

Let’s have a look at some tips for bathroom painting prep that you should understand should you want it to work out well.

1. Search For Mold And Mildew

One thing you’re going to want to do when you’re getting ready to paint your bathroom is to make sure that you don’t have any mold or mildew on the surfaces that are being painted — and while you’re at it, in the other areas of the bathroom.

Mold and mildew can be quite an unpleasant presence in your bathroom and not just because they don’t look nice — they are a health hazard as well.

Make the time to thoroughly remove these from your bathroom and when it comes to the surfaces that are to be painted, make sure that they are fully dry before you move on to the next step of the painting process.

2. Wallpaper Can Be Painted Over If Necessary

If you have one of those bathrooms with wallpaper in them, you may be thinking that you really have no choice but to spend a lot of time scraping the wallpaper off.

However, what you should realize is that if you find that it is too difficult to remove (and in some cases if the removal of the wallpaper will cause damage to the walls beneath it that makes it not worth doing without professional equipment) is that it’s possible to paint over wallpaper.

Though the process of painting over wallpaper merits its own article, what you should know is that it is possible and you shouldn’t avoid painting just because you have stubborn wallpaper that’s hard to remove.

3. Choose An Appropriate Paint

There are of course quite a few kinds of paint that you are going to be able to use for your painting project but not all of them will be right for painting a bathroom.

What you’re going to want, given the high level of humidity that can be found in a standard bathroom, is going to paint that is resistant to mold and mildew.

By this, you will be able to have walls that are going to be stronger in not having mold or mildew for a longer period of time.

4. Remove Outlet And Light Switch Covers

As much as we might want to just try to protect our outlet and light switch covers and hope that they don’t get any paint on them, the better thing to do is to entirely remove the covers.

You aren’t going to be leaving the spaces empty, however — you can lay down a bit of painter’s tape so that you don’t just have the exposed outlet sitting there.

5. Protect The Floor

Lastly, you should remember that since you’re going to be painting your bathroom walls that it is important that you protect the floors from paint.

True, you are applying paint to the walls and so really there shouldn’t be much of a threat of paint — but the paint that you apply to the walls as well as the paint you carry in your paint tray may well drip down.

It’s a lot easier to put down a drop cloth on the floor and thus protect the floor than to have to try to get paint off the floor — which is a lot more difficult once the paint has dried.

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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