01/18/2025
Are you like us and enjoy peaking through the hole around a construction site and see what's going on? Then check this out!
We are in the middle of an office build paint job right now and just finished up the first coat.
If you're wondering what YOUR office looked like before the water cooler was installed it might have been a lot like this.
Some things to note...
This is an in progress project and first coat completion, so its not perfect.
The goal with first coat is always to get as little paint on the wall, with making sure you hit every spot, and make it as smooth as possible.
A mistake we see with most DIYers and even some professionals is thinking they need to be perfect on the first coat.
This is a bad idea.
Even if you were to lather it on as thick as gravity allows there will always be low spots where you're going to see the previous colour.
(Not to mention it will be a goopy mess afterwards)
So you kinda have to accept once it is dry the first coat is going to look thin...
..but knowing second coat is (usually) going to do the job.
The goal then is to get an equal amount of "wetness" over the entire wall...
..not an equal amount of colour.
When it is done, you'll see the colour bleeding through but youll see the sheen being even. That's what you want.
And when you do two of those coats you'll have yourself some gorgeous walls!
In case you were wondering...
..this is an office where they are going to install some stick on carpeting for the trim once we are out of here...
..we don't have to cut in the baseboards so that looks like a mess on camera.
Rest assured that detail is taken care of.
We don't have many reviews here on Facebook but we do on Google https://g.co/kgs/7m8fZFq
Pretty proud of them if I do say so myself.
If you'd like a quote send me a text or give me a call at 613-983-3792.
Cheers,
Josh Brown
Owner
Ottawa Quality Painting