Painting Baseboards Around Carpet

Here i ll show you 3 different methods for painting trim next to carpet.

Painting baseboards around carpet. Painting baseboards with carpet can be quite easy if you have a steady hand and take the proper precautions to keep your carpet dry. As with any house interior painting job you want to use a drop sheet to protect the main areas of the carpet before painting baseboards around the carpet. It won t be perfect and you need to understand that going into it. Although i didn t stress it in the video each way can work for different carpet len.

Here s how to paint baseboards and protect the carpet by a professional toronto painter. What you need to know about painting baseboards with wall to wall carpet. Dust debris and especially hair human and pet find its way into the corners and edges of a room. To keep carpet safe lay down masking or packing tape and slide it under your baseboard with a putty knife to prevent drips.

If you need to paint baseboard next to a wall to wall carpet you could try to peel that carpet back as you brush along the edge of the molding and hope you don t get any paint on it but there s a better way. Dropsheeting the carpeted floor. Always before interior painting take a cloth drop sheet. Al lemke from hopewell junction n y has figured out a way to get masking tape between the baseboard and the carpet when he preps a.

How to paint baseboards with carpet. 6 do about three feet of baseboard a time with the brush and the paint guard. Repainting a room can be broken down into several segments. This video will show you how to paint baseboards or skirting boards on carpet there is a little trick to doing it.

I start off by using a shop vac and really getting all of the debris out. Here is the way that i paint baseboard on carpet and achieve a perfect finish every time with absolutely no paint getting onto the carpet. One of these segments is painting the baseboard trim a process that can be somewhat. Vacuum around all the baseboard.

Work yourself around the room.