How to Paint With Glidden Paint
When it comes to do-it-yourself painting projects, most homeowners want a good quality paint at a reasonable price. Although it's not an elite quality brand of paint, Glidden generally offers good quality for homeowners who are on a budget. There's not much difference between applying Glidden paint and other brands of paint. However, since some styles of Glidden paint tend to be thin, it's important to exactly adhere to the following application process to prevent drips and runs. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Painter's tape
- Drop clothes
- Five-gallon bucket
- Roller frame
- Rolling pole
- Roller cover
- Roller screen
- Three- or four-inch paintbrush
- Mineral spirirts
- Latex caulking
- Spackle
- Sandpaper
Instructions
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Painting with Glidden Paint
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Cover all furniture and electronics with a heavy-duty cloth or plastic drop cloth. Remove valuable or breakable items from the room entirely. Remove light switch plates and outlet coverings with a screwdriver. Utilize blue painter's tape to cover any and all items you want to remain unpainted.
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Fill all nail holes with spackle. Allow the spackle to dry for one to two hours. Use fine sandpaper to smooth the spackle. Use latex caulking to fill cracks and crevices in walls, around ceiling lines and above baseboards.
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Pour Glidden paint into a five-gallon bucket until it is half-full. Place the roller screen into the bucket with the paint. Attach the roller cover firmly to the roller frame. Screw the roller frame firmly to the rolling pole.
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Dip the roller into the five-gallon bucket filled with Glidden paint. Saturate the roller cover and then rub it against the screen to remove excess paint. Carefully place the roller cover against the top of the left side of the wall. Roll downward until you reach the bottom, then proceed upward until the roller becomes dry. Dip the roller again and proceed painting, moving from left to right until the entire wall is painted. Leave three inches of unpainted space below ceiling lines, above baseboards, and around outlets and light switch plates; you will paint these areas with your paintbrush.
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Paint the remaining unpainted portions with your three- or four-inch paintbrush. Dip the brush only halfway into the five-gallon bucket filled with Glidden paint. Paint in long, smooth strokes. Watch carefully for drips or runs and smooth these out with your paintbrush when necessary. Dip your brush when it becomes dry and continue painting until you've painted all of the remaining unpainted areas. Apply another coat of Glidden paint if necessary.
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Tips & Warnings
If you need to paint your ceilings, you can paint them the same way you painted the walls. Wide, spacious areas like walls and ceilings should be painted with a roller. However, paint trim and woodwork with a paintbrush, being careful to paint along with the wood grain and never against it.
Never mix oil-based paint with latex paint. Also, be sure to use only paintbrushes manufactured for latex paints when using water-based latex Glidden paints. Likewise, only use paintbrushes manufactured for oil-based paints when using oil-based Glidden paints. You can check the label of each paintbrush to determine what kind of brush it is. Never mix and match brushes as this will generally ruin the brush.
