Refinish Floors Before Or After Painting

Nick may from walls by design a paint contractor in denver answers today s question.

Refinish floors before or after painting. Sometimes however the order is not so clear. Before floor refinishing with a sander you should pull up the shoe base moulding along where the floor meets the wall. Homeowners often wonder when refreshing or updating a whole room whether to install new flooring or to repaint the walls and trim first. Pry up the moulding with a pry bar using a piece of scrap wood to protect the baseboard.

Mitigating the dust issue will allow you to move forward with painting with confidence. The ideal is to first do any prep work to the walls e g ripping up wall paper sanding and patching walls etc. In these cases if sanding of floors is required the recommendation would be to do the floors first. Most of the time the order we do things in is obvious.

When scheduling should you paint the walls before or after refinishing the floors. It s not an easy decision and each side has its merits. Cereal before milk pants before shoes wash before dry. This will allow you to get the majority of the dust out of the way before tackling other household projects such as painting.

View comments 3 hide comments post new comment. Assuming that you are getting the work done professionally it is usually better to do most of the painting after the flooring and most of the prep work before the flooring. Again there are two sides of the coin in this situation. And so today s question if i m getting my hardwoods refinished should i get them done before or after i refinish hardwoods or paint first.

Refinishing floors and interior painting are two home remodeling and building projects that usually happen around the same time. One of the things that people do a lot of times in conjunction with painting is other kind of remodeling and decorating items. Number or otherwise label each piece as you remove it to make it easier to put it back after refinishing the floor.