How To Prep Walls After Sanding
Be sure to overlap each stroke slightly to ensure you dont miss any spots.
How to prep walls after sanding. Use joint compound and a wide putty knife or drywall knife to fill in any dings or gouges. Do a skim coat over any remaining backing paper. Also the brush fibers could clean dust from tricky holes or corners.
Many people are eager to put on primer and paint right after their walls have be. Also cover the floor with drop cloths and cover moldings switches window frames handles and so on with masking tape. The more dust that you have the more times that you should change out your cloth as you swiffer your room I changed out mine with each new wall.
Let the filler to dry then smooth down with a fine sandpaper. What can be wet sanded will only make the finish better and help smooth out sanding scratches and wavy compound. Before getting into the actual prep work there were a couple of things that I had to take care of.
STEP 2- Test the adhesion. This video shows you what you should DEFINITELY do after sanding your walls. And by removing the nearby curtains switch plates artwork furniture or any other items that can possibly get damaged.
Sweeping compound contains ingredients that help keep dust on the ground making it easier to remove without it becoming airborne again. First of all removing all the power outlet and light switch wall plates. Then sand horizontally along the top of the baseboard molding and along the tops of the walls at the ceiling.
Its not uncommon for wallpaper removal to cause some damage to the wall beneath. Floors Sprinkle sweeping compound over the floor. Eric Stromer gives instruction on how to properly prepare walls to paint after wallpaper removal.
