How to make sure my painted walls turn out perfect

Q:How to make sure my painted walls turn out perfect?

A: Read Below.

There are a few steps you’ll want to take to make sure your walls turn out well when your painting.

1.  Make sure you see everything:  A professional painter should ALWAYS make sure any surface they are going to paint is well lit.  If you can’t see an imperfection, you’ll likely miss correcting it.  Here you can see we use a 3 stage light and a small light to carry around on an extension cord.  The large light move from wall to wall and the smaller light acts as an inspection light.

2.  Skim the wall in 2 stages.  Once before the prime coat and once after.  Also sand the entire wall.

3.  Use a primer:  There are a lot of reasons why, yes, even though almost all acrylic paints now advertise “prime and paint in one,” there are aspects to a primer that perform independently from paints that claim to prime and paint in one step.  Especially when mud is involved (and should always be involved.)

4.  Make sure you are using appropriate techniques.  There are a lot to expand upon here.