Using a Drop Cloth to Paint a Living Room

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I represent Expert Village.com. Now we're going to talk about dropping off the entire room, every square inch does need to be covered to enable us to paint the ceilings and the walls. Now, I've already moved some of this furniture in the center of the room in an earlier section. But, I needed to move it even a little bit more, stack it even more, to get my plastic over it. I'm just using two 9x12 Visqueen and I'm going to go ahead and cover the entire area. I've got half of it covered already. Now I'm going to go ahead and throw this over my big pile I have in the middle of the room. Now that I've moved some more stuff together I got a big piece of plastic over half of it and I'm going to go ahead and put this plastic over the other half. Now when you open this up there's no magic way to do it, just get it open, peel it apart. I'm going to ask for a little invisible help over here to help me with the other end. Now we're just going to go ahead and pull that on over. Now the thing to do is leave enough over, and we're going throw it over the top, there we go, we can pull that on over. OK, now all of our furniture is completely covered with plastic so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and throw out some runners along the side here. I've got a brand new one I can't wait to use, I don't get too many new things so I'm kinda happy about that. So we're going to take this runner and we're just going to go ahead and throw that out along the edge of the wall. OK, now we're going to put a piece of cardboard in here so for now we just kinda want to roll this up into the edges and just tuck it under a little bit just so it rolls under and not up. If it flips up you get paint on the back side, so you just tuck it under as you go along, we'll just even that on out. We're just going to pull it on down that same way. And we just roll the edge under so that we don't get any paint underneath it. Now we'll go ahead and start laying out runners all the way around the room. Now, once we've done that this room is completely covered, taking cardboard or anything you have like that or extra little smaller pieces and cover up the spots that don't quite fit. And this is how you drop off the room to prepare for painting and remodeling your living room."