Getting ready for Painting
After you have carefully planned your painting process, it is very important to select the right brand, the right shade, the right brush, and the right painter. Nerolac has developed friendly and interactive tools to empower you to take such decisions rightly! Use our interactive tools and be proud of your decisions!
Tool 1: Choose the right Product
This tool will help you select the product that suits your need, all you have to do is click here!
Tool 2: Choose the right shade
This tool will help you select the right shade from a vast range of over 8000 shades. You can choose to select the shade that suits the best to your personality or you can choose the shade that will go well with your curtains and furniture
Tool 3: Calculate Cost
This tool will help you to find out an estimate for the brand that you have selected to buy.
Tool 4: Visualize your home
This tool will help you visualize your home with the shades that you have selected.
Tool 5: Dealer Network
This tool will help you locate a store nearest to you, you can then confirm the availability of the brand and shade that you have decided to use.
Tool 6: Selecting a Right Painter
It is advisable to consult your friends who have carried out painting exercises recently. They can give you references for good painters. Moreover, you can also ask our dealer nearest to you to suggest you some painters. Visit 2-3 places where he has painted, ask the house owners about the painter’s credibility. Also, discuss the pricing with the painter. Don’t be too tempted towards those painters who are quoting a price that is much below the average market price.
Tool 7: Buying for Painting
Once you have made up your mind on a product and shade, go to the selected dealer and check its availability. Before buying the product, insist on testing a small swatch of paint on the wall for finish and shade.
- Use standard thinners, primers, and undercoats.
- Since you have already calculated the paint quantity required, break it into economical bulk packs.
- Avoid mixing paints yourself. This may cause a patchy and inconsistent finish. If, at all, you mix paints, add a stainer before diluting.
- If you want a shade that is not available in standard shade cards then visit our Colorscapes counter (the computerized color dispensing system), this will give you the shade of your imagination.
- Buy the paint from an authorized paint store that can supply an additional quantity of the shade that you have selected, if required.
Selecting the right brushes and rollers:
Brushing is the oldest method of the application having versatility under unlimited variable conditions and situations.
Choosing the right brush is always very important to get the kind of finish one is expecting, we will tell you how to select a brush, Always look at the bristles of the brush. Best quality brushes are made of hog bristles. Which enables a high degree of finish.
In cheaper brushes, a proportion of other animal hair or vegetable fibers are used. Brushes made of nylon bristles are also available. These are superior to pure bristles in their resistance to wear but are smooth and non-absorbent. Hence they carry less paint and have a tendency to run off from the brush.
A brush of a suitable size for the work in hand should be selected.
Rollers
Hand rolling is done mainly for decorative and maintenance paintings. When equipped with a long handle extension, the roller may be used for floor painting and work otherwise inaccessible
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