Bathroom Painting Issues

Series Summary

Home improvement projects are something that most home owners will, at some point, need to tackle. Sometimes the cost of hiring a professional is just not feasible. Fortunately, there are many home repairs that can be done with commonly owned tools. Painting the exterior of a house is probably a job left to a professional, but painting bathrooms is cheap, easy and not as time consuming. In this free video series, a professional painter explains everything needed to know about painting a bathroom. Learn about the tools and supplies needed, how to sand and scrape surfaces and how to clean up the walls. Priming surfaces, caulking cracks and painting trim is also covered. Interested in painting a bathroom? Watch as this painting pro demonstrates how easy it is to give an outdated bathroom a new coat of paint.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Mike Stewart, I'm a professional painting contractor for the past eight years. Today we're going to be painting a bathroom. We have a small bathroom here in this rental property, it's about 8x9, 8' ceilings, drop ceilings. So we're going to discuss some of the interesting aspects of painting a bathroom. Although it may be one of the smallest rooms in the house, it tends to take just as long as a larger room because of all the brush work that we have to do. We have to cut around toilets and sinks and the tub area, and oftentimes there's a lot of water damage, so we're going to address some of those issues. So, let me see, I'm going to hop up here and just take a look around the tub and shower area which is typically where the most damage has been done by the water. See what we have over here, we have some cracking and peeling on the wall surface, and on the trim we have a lot of the paint flaking off, and perhaps even some mildew which is a common thing in the bathroom. So we're going to talk about how to address some of those things and how to prevent them from reoccurring in the future. The reason for painting a room typically is to change the color and to freshen up all the surfaces. So the current wall color is about an off-white, yellowy kind of color, and the customer has specified to paint it white, as well as the trim white, and hoping that will tie in the tile and the vanity and give it a fresh, crisp, clean look. Alright, let's get started!"