Dining Room Ceiling Painting With Less Mess In Horsham, PA

In painting a dining room, there are quite a few things that you would consider doing in terms of order of what needs painting — and often, the ceiling gets left out of consideration.

This is rather unfortunate, but even when someone is looking at their ceiling and thinking about painting it well, the issue that will come up is how to do it without making a mess.

Though of course, it’s possible to reduce the mess that you have the possibility to make, if you follow a few basic tips and suggestions it will be that much easier to avoid them.

With that being the case, let’s have a look at some tips for dining room ceiling painting with less mess for a better painted ceiling.

1. Use Low Drip Paint

One thing that you’re going to want to do when you’re looking to paint your ceiling with less of a mess is to use a paint that is meant for dripping less.

This can come in the form of a low drip paint or even a paint that is specifically meant to paint ceilings, which is also low in terms of dripping.

This is not to say that if you use such a paint that you should leave your floors unprotected — far from it — but you will get less falling on whatever it is that you have to protect your floors this way.

2. Don’t Paint Too Quickly

When you are in the process of painting your ceiling, you may have a good look at the overall amount of work that is to be done and come to realize that there is a lot of it and think perhaps you will just paint more quickly to get it done sooner.

Not only are you going to find yourself ultimately having just as much work as if you were to take your time painting but you will also make much more of a mess during the painting process.

Take your time painting and on top of making far fewer painting mistakes that have to be corrected later (unless you don’t mind paintwork that just doesn’t look good at all) you will also find that you have made less of a mess.

3. Remove Furniture

When you’re painting a ceiling, having certain key pieces of furniture in the room may seem like a must in that they are just so large and unruly that you cannot remove them.

It’s important to understand why it would be better to remove the furniture, however — and that is that if you can get the furniture out of the room, it’s going to not be in your way while you are painting.

On top of that, you won’t run into any chance of getting paint on it — and that is truly a positive, though not one that can be compared to when you have to get the furniture out of the room.

If it’s just not possible to remove the furniture, you should see if you can gather it in one particular location and then to cover it with a tarp or a drop cloth.

4. Use A Ladder To Access The Ceiling

The most likely best way to access the ceiling in terms of safety and getting the ceiling painted with a minimal amount of mess is with a ladder.

Though of course, you might want to say that a good scaffolding system is better and easier, this is usually not accessible for most people painting in their homes due to the cost of such systems — and trying to recreate them in your home can prove to be quite dangerous.

Telescoping handles can work pretty well but they can also be harder to handle and make more of a mess.

Hiring a professional painting contractor like Aspen Painting guarantees a flawless, durable, and high-quality paint job.
We have years of experience in cabinet and furniture painting with a long list of happy customers in Horsham, PA, Ambler, Dresher, Ft. Washington, and Blue Bell, PA.

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