Painting works. What is necessary?

When carrying out repairs, you can save and do a lot with your own hands. Of course, it is simpler and probably more correct to entrust repairs to professionals, but often the owners perform such work independently. In order to perform painting work, you need to purchase tools and material.

How to prepare the base

Surfaces are cleaned, smoothed with pumice stone, emery paper or with a machine. Then dust is dusted with dry brushes, and sometimes washed with water. After that, measure the unevenness of the walls and put out the lighthouses. The next step is priming. For a living room, plaster based on gypsum is often used, and in the bathroom they work with a cement-sand mortar. Particular attention is paid to the walls where the painting will be done.

Primer

Often people are interested: why do you need to prepare walls? After applying a primer, the walls absorb moisture much less. So, there is good adhesion to the material (paint, tiles, wallpaper). Conducting plaster painting works, primers are used environmentally friendly, deep penetration, with antimicrobial action.

Tools for painting works

Each master has tools in his arsenal, without which it is simply impossible to perform construction work. We list the main tools for painting:

• Trowel (trowel);
• putty knife;
• Brushes;
• Rollers;
• Poluterki.

Masterk and

This tool is used for finishing and construction works. Trowels work during brickwork, jointing, and also they install ceramic tiles. A wide application of the tool found in the finishing works. The appearance of the trowel is also different, and it depends on what kind of work they will perform.

Spatulas

All painting starts from the removal of the coating and preparation of the substrate. Therefore, in such works, a spatula is simply necessary. For work use metal, wooden or rubber spatulas. Experts mainly work with metal spatulas. Builders for leveling putty use a spatula-half-trowel.

Brushes

Brushes that are used for large surfaces - flywheels (maklovitsy). The length of the hair of this brush is about 100 mm. The fly brush has a hollow handle that allows it to be pushed onto long sticks. Brushes with a short handle of small size - hand-held. They are used for painting small surfaces. Before work, the hair of the hand is tied with twine. Brush panel is also used for finishing works.

Rollers

Greater productivity can be achieved if the painting (priming and painting of surfaces) is performed by a roller. They are fur and foam. To work with oil and enamel paints fit fur rollers, and for water-based paints take foam rubber rollers.

Selection of brushes and rollers

For the final result, the right choice of brushes for painting is very important. The amateur always has a question about what type of bristles should be in the hands. It is known that it can be natural, synthetic or mixed. Brushes with natural bristles are purchased for water colors. Synthetic bristles can be used for both water-based paints and oil paints. Brushes with mixed bristles are universal, as they are suitable for a large number of colors.

Conclusion

Finishing works are carried out at the final stage of construction, using paint and varnish materials. Most finishing and painting works require a variety of tools.