How to check the quality of the painting works

To evaluate the result, you do not need to be an expert. Suffice it to know where and how to look.

Repair not only requires a lot of money, but also very exhausting. I wish that the next needed soon. Implementation of this desire depends on the quality of work right now.

Feature "paint brushes," is that the final result depends entirely on the quality of work at every stage. So you do nothing else to do but how to control their every step. Good help will be confident that the correct execution of the painting gives long-lasting results. The next time you will not have to again dub walls and putty. And you can just re-stick wallpaper or refresh paint.

Of course, in this work, there are a lot of subtleties. But without an understanding of the overall picture can not be dispensed. Let's see what the result must be available at each stage.

Step 1. Removal of old coatings

If you have started primary in a new building, this step will be quick and easy. In older homes it can take several days or even weeks.

At this stage it is necessary to remove all the old and fragile coatings, which prevent perform a new finish and / or threaten its longevity.

Please note: it is not just about the old finishing materials (wallpaper, whitewash and chalky plaster, tile and the like), but also lost strength plaster. It must necessarily be removed. You can not build a house on a dilapidated basement. New plaster, superimposed on top of the old worn-out, simply drop off.

As a result of the work at this stage, there should be only a strong base, their primed and dried.

How to check

Feel in different places the walls and ceilings. Palm should remain clean and dry.

Step 2. plastering walls

Plastering - the most difficult and time-consuming step of all. His target - obtain a flat surface. Ideally ceilings must have strict horizontal walls - vertical, and the angle between adjacent planes to be 90 degrees.

First, install the master beacons - special metal guides. When it comes to the walls, the beacons must stand vertically and in the same plane. From the very beginning it is necessary to discuss what you want to get accuracy. Do all the work perfectly almost impossible, so the label, which deviation is acceptable. For example, smooth irregularities of the walls no more than two millimeters in height - it's very good quality.

The finish should be thoroughly dried and then primed.

How to check

With the help of rules and levels. Apply the rule to the wall in several places, to vote irregularities. If the result is worse than you asked for, require improvements.

Dried plaster should be uniform light gray color. Spend on her hand - it should remain dry and clean.

Step 3. luting

Plastering the walls to make the surface smooth, luting is to make them smooth. Typically, the plaster is applied not less than two layers. Each layer is dried. Then the surface is sanded and primed again.

The thoroughness of this work It depends on what topcoat will be used for finishing:

• Primed to get a perfectly smooth surface.
• Thick vinyl wallpaper conceal small irregularities, so the putty under them can not so carefully.
• For ceramic tiles and similar building materials, as well as for certain types of decorative plasters putty is not necessary at all.

How to check

Take a good lamp and direct light along its oshpaklovannoy surface. The slanting rays of all the irregularities are clearly visible. At the touch surface must be clean and dry.

Step 4. finishing

If all the previous work carried out qualitatively, finishing does not require a lot of time. If the manifest shortcomings of the previous stage, will have to eliminate them, and this is not a quick process.

Treat the surface "under the microscope" stupid: there are always defects. It is enough that a person with normal acuity of view in good light not seen obvious shortcomings.

How to check the painting

Make sure that has been applied at least two layers of paint. When completely dry (no earlier than the next day), check:

• Whether all the surface is uniform in color and luster (texture).
• No Do NOT, and colors of leaked places.
• Whether there is noticeable traces of roller or brush, lint, sand grains and the like.

How to check papering

Usually, the wallpaper is completely dry not less than two or three days. Sometimes gluing defects may occur even later. Take care of good lighting and check that the result meets the above criteria:

• Wallpaper on the wall should lie evenly without bubbles and irregularities.
• The joints of panels should not diverge, and the edges - come unstuck.
• Wrinkles are not allowed in the corners of the room.
• If the wallpaper with a pattern, it should be is combined correctly.

helpful hints

1. Since the quality of the painting works as a whole depends on the quality of each stage, try to give the whole complex of plastering and painting works in one hand. Master will know what is responsible for the final result, and will not deliberately bungle in the preparatory stages.
2. Composing with the master estimates, Crush the entire scope of work on a more or less large part. If the wizard will have to leave, you will know how much to pay for a particular type of work.
3. At the beginning of Speak the quality that you want. Specify in what way you will check it. The higher the desired quality, the longer and more thoroughly will work, and the more expensive it is worth it. Make an agreement on paper and mount it in the quality requirements and methods of its control.
4. Ask plenty of questions to the master. The skilled person will never refuse to explain to the customer why and what it does.

Success in repair!

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