Protect the garage floor from paint splatters and drips.
If you want to finish the drywall around your garage doors, you must employ a particular application strategy. Unlike interior drywall, which is typically textured, most garage drywall is left bare. This leaves drywall tape and spackle or drywall mud exposed. Because these surfaces soak up paint at different rates than the drywall itself, they will show up brighter on the finished wall. Professional painters call this problem "flashing through." If you want to avoid this issue, finish your garage drywall a particular way.
Instructions
1. Open the garage door.
2. Dust cobwebs and dirt from the drywall with a broom.
3. Cover the garage door tracks with low-tack blue painter's tape. Tape masking paper around them if they lie close to the drywall. Cover the garage floor with fabric dropcloths.
4. Pour 1 gallon of satin latex paint into the 5-gallon bucket. Stir in 1 cup of water, using a wooden stir stick. Stir for five minutes.
5. Apply two coats of the diluted paint to the garage drywall, using a roller frame, nap roller cover and extension pole. Coat areas of the drywall you can't access with the roller with a paintbrush manufactured for use with water-based paints. Allow one hour of dry time after each coat.
6. Coat the garage drywall with a single coat of undiluted satin latex paint, using the roller and brush.
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