Repaint Baseboards With Carpet

Angle it so it pulls the carpet fibers away and gives you enough space to insert your paint brush follow the same process as above wash dry prime paint.

Repaint baseboards with carpet.

The problem however is that in my years of painting i have seen what should be a fairly easy and straightforward painting project turn out awful when done wrong. To keep carpet safe lay down masking or packing tape and slide it under your baseboard with a putty knife to prevent drips. Painting baseboards with carpet is a fairly common task for a painter. Repainting a room can be broken down into several segments.

To begin run the packing tape next to the baseboard overlapping it so that there is some tape to stuff under the baseboard. 1 place the paint shield in between the baseboard and the carpet. This video will show you how to paint baseboards or skirting boards on carpet there is a little trick to doing it. Although i didn t stress it in the video each way can work for different carpet len.

One of these segments is painting the baseboard trim a process that can be somewhat trickier if the room has wall to wall 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. The putty knife makes it easy to line the underside of the baseboard with packing tape. Blue painters tape this wide tape worked great to tape off the carpet from the baseboard like i show in the video.

When you pull it off it won t stick to the carpet and pull up fibers. 2 paint with your paintbrush. Wooster paintbrush i love this paintbrush. Directions for painting baseboards with carpet.

The soft rubber handle is very comfortable to use for hours and hours of painting. A nice simple tool to use for undercoating and glossing skirting board without messing the carpet up. Here i ll show you 3 different methods for painting trim next to carpet.