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HOW TO PREPARE A WALL FOR PAINTING

The first step towards a professional painting finishing is surface preparation, How you prep your walls or any other type of surfaces determined your result you get at the end,  to many professionals painters surface preparation differentiate them from the amateurs, though  it's time consuming and take lots of eagle eyes sighting to get rid of the errors , defects and contours off the  wall or you have to do skimming all over just to be sure of the surface prep and it really worth the time. There are different types of Surfaces check ( types of surfaces ) to understand more and they are also treated differently to attain a detailed finishing, Let's dive in and gets it on... WE HAVE 3 TYPES OF WALLS 1) Newly Plastered wall 2) Skimmed or Screeded  wall 3) Painted wall NEWLY PLASTERED WALL These types of walls are also called the Virgin  walls, meaning that   paint have never been applied on them before, They are mostly sandy and have l...