Painting Tips

This past week I painted a garage and it was a rush job. I was told to pay more attention to the schedule than the quality. In keeping with this idea I found that I saved a great deal of time by not taping up the many windows that this garage had while I painted.

There were 9 doors total, each door of the garage had 8 windows each, making a total of 72 windows. Instead of taping over each window before I painted, I used a very wide putty knife/scraper and held it flush to the windows while I painted the trim around them.

This was not the optimal painting set up, but it did cut down on my prep time before painting. I would guess that I saved about 2 hours total by not taping all the windows up before I painted. I managed to keep the majority of the paint off of the windows with only a few drops here and there getting on the windows.

For the ones that did get a little paint on them, I simply took a wet rag and wiped the paint off of them before the paint had a change to dry.

So if you find yourself needing to paint and paint quickly around windows, where time is more of a factor, you may want to try this quick and easy painting tip.

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