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Wall Prep: Spackling & Fixture Removal

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Jobsite SEQUENCING. What To Paint FIRST?

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While other preparatory tasks are underway, assign one person to methodically inspect all walls for holes or damage. Use spackle to fill any holes, particularly those larger than a pinhole (e.g., dime-sized or larger), as these require sufficient drying time before painting. Simultaneously, this individual should remove all electrical switch plates and outlet covers from the walls to allow for clean, unhindered painting right up to the electrical boxes.

Goal: Designate a team member to spackle any holes or imperfections on the walls and remove all electrical switch plates and outlet covers. This ensures a smooth surface for painting and avoids painting around fixtures.

Tools and materials

  • Screwdriver
  • Spackle
  • Spackle Knife / Putty Knife

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that. And one guy will come in, start masking, but then what are some of the couple other things we need to be doing? So, a lot of these first steps, you can kind of reverse them just depending on how many guys you have. You can have somebody taking off switch plates. You can have uh somebody going around kind of prepping the walls, putting caulking or spackle up and just kind of getting the walls ready to paint. And then um you get one person going around and doing uh plastic on all the furniture. That way we don't get any paint on it. Yep. So, one of the very first things like Zach said is spackle. get spackle on the walls cuz if you have any holes that are aren't just pin holes, if they're like a size of a dime or bigger, if this project is going to be done in one day, we want that spackle to be able to dry so we can roll over it. So, get somebody spackling right away. We've had a few holes in here that were a little bit smaller than a dime. I did all the spackling and I took off the switch plates. You got to get those switch plates on. Two guys were masking, but we

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