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Grill
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Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
Please share your reasons for why it makes sense to do one before the other. TIA.
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Posted 5/25/10 7:48 PM  |
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pickles16
Real Estate Professional
Member since 11/07 17227 total posts
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Jen
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
paint first and do everything you need to do first and floors last..thats what my contractor always tells me
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| Posted 5/25/10 7:51 PM |
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Tah-wee-ZAH
Kisses
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
We painted first.
Wood floors throughout the house... took 4 days as I wanted 4 coats of poly.
Then we touched up the baseboard.
It's so much easier to paint the house and not have to worry about the floors whether you do it yourself or hire professionals.
ETA: All major renovations were done first, bathrooms, kitchen, electrical, boiler, CAC, etc. Hardwood floor guy and railing guy had to coordinate around each other. Railing guy had to start, floors first few coats, then railing guy had to come back... don't remember why.
I had multiple contractors in my house everyday (including weekends) for 4 months. We painted, floors were last then we moved in.
Message edited 5/25/2010 7:56:17 PM.
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| Posted 5/25/10 7:52 PM |
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OStewarts
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
Our floor guy recommended that we do the floors first because the dust from the sanding can damage the paint job if the paint is not completely dry.
My BIL is a professional painter and he agreed. When he painted the house, he used drop cloths and did not get any paint on the floors.
Message edited 5/25/2010 8:10:28 PM.
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| Posted 5/25/10 8:09 PM |
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Salason
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
Posted by OStewarts
Our floor guy recommended that we do the floors first because the dust from the sanding can damage the paint job if the paint is not completely dry.
My BIL is a professional painter and he agreed. When he painted the house, he used drop cloths and did not get any paint on the floors.
I agree with this. We painted first and it destroyed the moldings....
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| Posted 5/25/10 8:12 PM |
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Mrs213
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
Posted by Salason
Posted by OStewarts
Our floor guy recommended that we do the floors first because the dust from the sanding can damage the paint job if the paint is not completely dry.
My BIL is a professional painter and he agreed. When he painted the house, he used drop cloths and did not get any paint on the floors.
I agree with this. We painted first and it destroyed the moldings....
interesting to know...
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| Posted 5/25/10 8:40 PM |
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drpepper318
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Member since 6/07 8274 total posts
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
Posted by OStewarts
Our floor guy recommended that we do the floors first because the dust from the sanding can damage the paint job if the paint is not completely dry.
My BIL is a professional painter and he agreed. When he painted the house, he used drop cloths and did not get any paint on the floors.
I agree, I got my floors done first. It's true about the dust from the floors getting on the walls and also, when they did the floors some of the stain splashed on the lower part of the walls... and so I would have had to re-paint it anyway, so in my case, luckily I did the floors first.
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| Posted 5/25/10 8:41 PM |
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pickles16
Real Estate Professional
Member since 11/07 17227 total posts
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Jen
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
thats so weird, when we moved, we painted did everything first and then did the floors and painted moldings last....
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| Posted 5/25/10 8:47 PM |
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Goobster
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Member since 5/07 27557 total posts
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
Posted by pickles16
paint first and do everything you need to do first and floors last..thats what my contractor always tells me
same here...you dont want new floors with ladders all over them, dirty dropcloths, etc
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| Posted 5/25/10 8:48 PM |
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jenheartsrob
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
Posted by drpepper318
Posted by OStewarts
Our floor guy recommended that we do the floors first because the dust from the sanding can damage the paint job if the paint is not completely dry.
My BIL is a professional painter and he agreed. When he painted the house, he used drop cloths and did not get any paint on the floors.
I agree, I got my floors done first. It's true about the dust from the floors getting on the walls and also, when they did the floors some of the stain splashed on the lower part of the walls... and so I would have had to re-paint it anyway, so in my case, luckily I did the floors first.
We painted our ceilings 1st...then had the floors done....then the walls... that was order our floor guy recommended - so we wouldn't have to care about paint dripping from ceiling... but so our walls wouldn't get ruined
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| Posted 5/25/10 11:19 PM |
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Nifheim
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Member since 1/09 5476 total posts
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
i was told by our guy to do floors first then floors. After two days of a wait we put down brown paper and taped the seams with blue tape and painted away. If your a really messy painter then put cardboard over the brown kraft paper.
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| Posted 5/26/10 8:46 AM |
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Elbee
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Member since 5/05 10767 total posts
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Me
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Re: Refinishng Wood Floors or Paint Every Wall Surface: Which one to do first?
we were going to do the floors first BUT later decided that the 'risk' of damage was minimal. We also installed new molding throughout the entire house.
So what we did was
1. Prime everything
2. paint ceilings
3. paint walls
4. refinish floors
5. 2 coats paint on base moldings then installed, caulked, and did one more coat.
6. painted the stair risers
The only thing I had to do was dry mop my walls and ceilings (swiffer dry) .... I used one full box to get everything off.
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| Posted 5/26/10 8:51 AM |
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