Garage Interior Wall Painting

[must"have"ang]

I have next week off of work and want to do some garage cleanup so when its warm enough I can paint the walls inside my garage. I was thinking like 4ft of grey or black around the base with the rest of the garage white.

Few questions:

What kind of paint ? Interior work, need to be exterior?

Do you have to do anything to the walls, right now the basic drywall with the tape on it around the walls. Need to do anything about the tape? If so what?


Thanks for the help

[wesman]

You can use interior paint. On the walls if it's just bare drywall and tape, you need to texture the walls first or it will look like crap if it even sticks to the drywall.

The texture and such isn't hard, you'll need a compressor and a texture bucket/air gun (I prefer that over the handheld electric guns) it's about ~$100 at HD or lowes. The texture is just the mud compound they sell at HD or Lowes. If you have the compressor already, the stuff you need will be less than $150-$175

--wes

[George G.]

Definately texture the walls first before painting. And I wouldn't used that roll on texture stuff you mix with paint. Interior paint will work fine.

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[Justa4banger]

I wouldn't paint the garage ANy color but white or light colors. Dark colors will cut down the effective lighting in the garage. thats my 2 cents. i have a buddy that painted the walls brown and the cieling white, doesn't look bad, but the lights in his garage aren't as effective my entirely white garage.

[George G.]

x2 on the dark colors. I'd stay with something lighter toned.

[must"have"ang]

Thanks for the input so far, my garage is still a mess so I gotta do some decent clean up before I can even make a final decision.

Now when you guys say "look like crap" using just the drywall is that because theres literally no texture to the drywall so it just wont stay on the wall if I paint it? I really was hoping this would be easy.

[George G.]

You'll definately see the tape and bedding joints and the screw/nail hole fillings. It will have a different texture compared to the areas with just drywall so it will absorb the paint differently.

[BlackSnake1996]

Before you do anything, please make sure you prime the walls with Zinsser 123. Its a latex primer, easy to use and works better than anything else out there. If you don't prime those walls, I guarantee you that no matter what you put in there, it will come off in time. There is a lot of moisture that builds up in a garage and when the sheetrock sucks it up over time, texture, paint etc will peal away.

If there is only tape on the walls, you will need to float it all out. Its would be best to put the 1st float with a 10" knife followed by a 12".

The texture is up to you. What everyone else here is trying to say about the look without texture is this, "Texture hides a multitude of sins." Plus it looks finished.

Guess what? Now its time to prime again. Use the same primer as before. (Zinsser 123)

As far as int/ext paint...Just because it has walls doesn't make it necessarily interior. I usually use Sherwin William's Super Paint Exterior Satin. You cant go wrong there.

[must"have"ang]

I may come off looking stupid here, but what is "floating" and what does it entail?

The garage walls are drywall with a line of tape running down the middle and then again towards the top.

<--- IT Computer guy

[BlackSnake1996]

Originally Posted by must"have"ang

I may come off looking stupid here, but what is "floating" and what does it entail?

The garage walls are drywall with a line of tape running down the middle and then again towards the top.

<--- IT Computer guy

Running mud over the tape like so...http://drywall-trade.com/images/230Kitchen.jpg

[must"have"ang]

Originally Posted by BlackSnake1996

Running mud over the tape like so...http://drywall-trade.com/images/230Kitchen.jpg

ahhhhh. that makes much more sense.

thanks man!!

[BlackSnake1996]

Originally Posted by must"have"ang

ahhhhh. that makes much more sense.

thanks man!!

No problem. Holler at me if ya need any more info.