Materials Required PAINT A HOUSE Your Guide To Do-It-Yourself Home Painting

MATERIALS

Spackle: Use Sherwin Williams water-base...buy qts
Caulking: Use Sherwin Williams, non-silicon, 25yr
Use Sherwin-Williams paint: Classic 99 (flat,satin,semi) for interior work...A-100 (satin,gloss) for exterior work...buy gallons ... See Paints & Finishes for more info...
Update: In recent years Sherwin Williams has become quite expensive to use, and their Classic-99 product has been discontinued... so for a more reasonable and affordable as well as a good quality brand... try Behr Interior Paint (available at all Home Depot Stores)...
Putty (Window Glaze Compound): Use S-W oil-base... buy qts
Spackling Compound or Plaster of Paris (for solidifying Putty or Patching Larger Areas): Use S-W... buy 1# size bags
De-Natured Alcohol: for cleaning-up dried acrylic paint and stain seal
Lacquer Thinner: used for cleaning grease
Paint Thinner: only needed if using oil-base paint (STICK WITH ACRYLICS)
TSP Cleaner: Soilax, Dirtex
Primer-Stain Seal: use only "pigmented shellac" (DO NOT USE WATER-BASE STAIN SEAL)... See Paints & Finishes for more info...

How Much Paint Is Required?

For a typical bedroom (12ft x 15ft) applying one heavy coat (recommended)... the ceiling will take about 1/2 gallon, and the four walls will take about 1½ to 2 gallons of Paint...
For a typical bedroom closet (double door non-walk-in type) you'll need about ½ gallon...
A typical full bath will require about 1 to 1½ gallon...
Half baths take about ½ gallon...
A typical full sized living room plus hallway (leading to bedrooms) will require about three to four gallons for ceilings and walls...
You can continue to make quantity requirements for other rooms and applications based on these suggestions...
You may also use our handy Paint Calculator

tip When you open a can of paint, use your brush to wipe off the paint on the inside of the LID before you place the LID somewhere! [read all the tips]

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