Tips on Protecting your Fresh Paint when you have Kids or Pets

Kids and Pets can be chaotic creatures, running around your home and getting into everything. While this behavior is often expected it can pose a great deal of problems when you are working on a painting project where that chaos can ruin your fresh paint. In today’s blog we will be providing you with some useful tips on protecting your fresh paint from kids and pets.

Block off the painting area

One of the simplest ways to protect your fresh paint from kids and pets is to make sure they can’t get to it in the first place. You can do this by closing doors or by utilizing gates that prevent access to the area where you are painting.

Effective Scheduling

This particular strategy pertains more to kids than it does to pets, but effective scheduling of your painting can prevent your kids from coming into contact with fresh paint. Focus your painting efforts on times when kids aren’t present, like during school or daycare or on a day when they visit a friend.

One Room at a Time

Compartmentalizing your painting project into individual rooms and painting areas rather than doing it all at once can help you protect your fresh paint by making it easier to control access to the painting area. It allows you to ensure that kids and pets don’t have access to the fresh paint until it’s dry and safe for them to interact with.

Use Quick Drying Paint

If possible, choose paints that dry quicker to lower the chance of your kids or pets making contact with wet paint. Low and zero VOC Paints have fewer fumes and dry faster than their higher VOC counterparts making them ideal for interior painting projects where kids and pets are present.

Proper Ventilation

One way to ensure that your fresh paint is less vulnerable to interference by kids and pets is to ensure proper ventilation of the painting area. Good airflow will reduce the amount of fumes present as well as ensuring that the paint dries quicker.

Use Professional Painters

Because of their skills and experience, professional painters are often able to complete painting projects much faster than if you were to do it yourself. They are also able to work on painting projects during your work hours, meaning you don’t need to wait for a weekend when your kids and pets are home to complete your painting project.

We hope we have been able to provide you with some useful information on how to protect your fresh paint when you have kids and pets present. If you have any questions about professional painting, please feel free to contact us.

Level 5 Painting are experienced and dependable interior and exterior, residential and commercial painters based in Surrey, British Columbia. The Level 5 Painting crew performs at the highest industry standards to exceed your expectations and deliver painting projects with phenomenal results. 

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