How to Lay Drop Cloth Inside

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter. And today I represent expertvillage.com. Okay now, we've moved all of our furniture into the center of the room. It's time to drop everything off. Now, when you're dropping of a room for painting, when you're doing a ceiling, you've got to cover everything. I mean every single square inch. Don't leave any furniture or flooring exposed or it's going to get paint on it. Now, if you cover everything up and you're painting along and something opens up along the way because you step on it or it moves, don't freak out about it. Just when you get up to that area go ahead and throw something over it. But, to prevent that kind of thing from happening, drop it off as good as you can to begin with and then you're not going to find this kind of thing open up on you. So wherever there's an open area be sure you cover it up. Let's start by doing the center of the room where our hutches are. Just cover that with a nice big drop like the one you see here. Now, these are all different sizes. I have a couple that I've used from other jobs and you just throw them up there. Cover up the center first. Get all these corners covered up. We'll even that on out. Now, you see that's covered all the way around. It droops over a little bit so that when the paint falls it's going to be okay. Now, that we've got that all covered, now we want to lay out our runners. Now, runners we use to cover around the edges. So we want to use the wider ones for the wider areas and the narrow ones for the narrower areas. So let's go ahead and lay out our runner. Now, here's a good runner. We'll lay that out right here and we just want to even that all out. Now, remember we're going to cover every little area here. Be sure and cover that up. Now, when you come across a doorway like this, I like to just throw a piece of cardboard in the doorway and if you don't have a lot of cardboard, just use it for each doorway and move it as you go along. Now, you can get a bunch of different pieces of cardboard and do that all at once or you can just take one piece around and lay that every time you get up to a doorway. Well, there's a lot more dropping off to do. I've got to put a lot more drops out here to cover this whole room. But, these are the basic procedures and what you need to know for dropping of a room for interior painting."