We've just bought a house and are completing shortly, but as we are currently renting we are going to overlap rent and mortgage for a week to enable us to do a bit of DIY. We want to paint pretty much the whole house (except halls), resand and revarnish the floors in living room and downstairs hall (currently a dark ginger colour) and paint the floor in the main bedroom!
We complete on the Thursday and we are hoping we can get started on the Thursday pm but more likely the Friday morning. Plan was to start with the sanding, then move on to the painting. Some friends are going to come over on the Sat and Sun to help us paint. But I imagine the sanding will take at least two days. So, can we sand downstairs while painting upstairs at same time? Or will dust blow up even if doors shut? Or should we paint first?
I also want to paint the kitchen cupboards - will post about that separately.
Can we do it in the timescale? It's a Victorian terrace, 4 beds. Are we insane?
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Sanding floors/painting at same time - feasible?
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Oodle · 22/02/2011 17:34
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