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  • Pro-Am decorators. Have I got my scheduling right?

    1. Remove handles and shit
    2. Sand down all woodwork and wipe clean
    3. 1st coat ceiling, then walls (do clean walls and ceiling need any prep, e.g. wipe with sugar soap?)
    4. 1st coat oil eggshell woodwork
    5. 2nd coat ceiling
    6. Light sand woodwork
    7. 2nd coat walls
    8. 2nd coat woodwork
    9. Replace ironmongery
    10. trauma-related alcohol binge

    Also, we are eventually going to have the floor sanded and hard-wax-oiled. Will that fuck the decorating?

    Fanks.

  • You have that pretty much right. Start the alcohol binge much earlier in the process though.

    You should definitely wash the walls and ceiling with sugar soap. Why oil based eggshell? The acrylic is pretty durable these days and far less a pain in the ass. Woodwork needs a primer/undercoat maybe 2 depending.

    Your future floor work may screw with your woodwork depending on how carefully it's done.

  • Depending on timescale and how different the skirting is now to how it will be, leave it until after the floor sanding is done. We had to sand and repaint our skirting after the guys we got in threw a load of Omso around.

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