How to paint the walls with water-based paint?

Painting is the most common and cheapest way of finishing the walls.

In addition, due to the variety of shades, it is quite easy to find them for a specific room, given its light and purpose.

Well, painting walls with water-based paint, which was used by our parents, can become a universal option for many auxiliary rooms, bathroom and toilet.

Preparation for application of the formulation

Unlike wallpapers, painting is good because it does not need to prepare the surface with the same care. But this does not mean at all that this important moment in general needs to be let out of sight.

First of all, you need to remove the remains from the wallsold cover. If you simply repaint the surface using the same composition, then you can not especially bother. But you still need to make sure that there are no major damages, potholes and cracks.

Since painting walls with water-based paintassumes a fairly strong absorption of the composition, you must first primed the places on which you plan to apply the composition. The primer must completely dry, and it can take about six hours.

Aligning walls

If rough changes on the surface are stillthere are, they need to be eliminated, using a starting putty or a mixture for plastering. As in the previous case, it must dry completely by the time the work begins. When the first layer dries, apply the finishing composition, carefully level it, then leave it for a day to dry. As usual, it is necessary to priming. Only after this begins painting the walls with water-based paint.

Krasim!

The amount of paint you need to pourin a dry and clean bucket, add the right amount of water (as instructed), then mix with a mixer. If you need some special color, before this you need to add a dye to the composition.

Remember that painting walls of water-basedthe paint begins only after the foam on the surface of the composition settles, caused by intensive mixing of the solution. Pour it into a special paint bath, and then soak in the paint roller.

Process tricks

You should start with the least noticeable angle. Beforehand, you need to walk a few times in hard-to-reach places with a brush, as with a roller you can not paint them normally. However, the painting of walls with water-based paint (photo of the results is in the article) can be simplified considerably if you purchase a special corner roller in advance.

Experienced painters say that the most correctapply its stripes, the width of which is not less than 0.7 m. In no case can paint "joint in the joint." Having dried up, these places will stand out. The first layer dries in about four hours, and for each subsequent it is necessary to allocate at least five.

And from a financial point of view, a good paintingwalls of water-based paint? The price directly depends on the surface area, but at the cost of one can (about 2.5 liters) from about 150 rubles, the repair process is unlikely to be very costly.