10/20/2026
If you are painting indoors this autumn, ventilation is the part people get wrong. In summer you open the windows and forget about it. In October nobody wants the heating fighting an open window, so the room stays shut, the paint takes far longer to cure, and the smell hangs around for days. Paint early in the day, keep one window open a crack with a fan pointing out rather than in, and give each coat longer than the tin suggests, because a cool room dries paint more slowly than those numbers assume. Handyman Services Silver Spring paints interiors across Montgomery County.