Fishers interior rooms

We received a call on Tuesday from a customer that needed rooms painted immediately because they were putting it up for sale because of a job transfer. I submitted an estimate that night and received approval to start on Wednesday. I had to rearrange several other jobs in order to fit the job in. Normally, Ryan and I can't just start the next day so I had Ryan continue to work on the deck we were doing and I started the job.

We painted the master bathroom, entertainment room, living room, entry way, stairwell, and upstairs hallway. The walls were in bad shape so we used our electric sander on all walls to get rid of all the gunk on the walls. We used a lot of spackle to fill holes and cracks. In normal circumstances, we always put on two coats (part of estimate), but the customer was moving and just wanted it to look presentable so we put one coat of Sherwin Williams ProMar 200 (no VOC) in a flat finish. The color was darker than what was on the walls so it covered.  For all the areas we spackled, we covered with the paint color in order to reduce any flashing.  The walls looked outstanding even with one coat.

Challenges:

• The entryway was 20 feet so we had to bring in our 24 extension ladder to get to the top.
• We had to work over the stairwell in order to get the walls over the stairs. Again, it was very steep and we had to use our levelers with both a step ladder and a 12 foot ladder to get to the ceiling. I cut in the ceiling and then Ryan used both a 4' and 12' extension pole with a 9" roller frame to run up and down the walls. 

Steps in completion:

1. Sanded all the walls;
2. Washed all the walls;
3. Removed all electrical plates;
4. Caulked around baseboards and door trim;
5. Spackled all holes and dings (there were a lot of them);
6. Taped all baseboards, window trim,  and door trim with green frog tape;
7. Masked all carpet with 12" paper in order to catch any drips;
8. Lightly sanded spackled areas after it dried;
9. Hit with the finish paint color in order to prevent flashing;
10. Painted small area where ceiling meet wall in order to hide paint on ceiling and get a better cut line;
11. Applied one coat of Sherwin Williams ProMar 200 Interior Latex  (flat finish) to all walls except the Master Bathroom where we applied two coats with an eg-shell finish;
12. Removed all green frog tape;
13. Removed all masked areas;
14.  Touched up any areas that we missed or the last painter may have;
15. Vacuumed all floors; and
16. Final walk-through with customer.

Note: We used ProMar 200 with no VOC because there was a baby in the house.

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