Internal Controls for Painting a Room at Home?

When you decide to paint a room at home you will be concerned with the quality and cost of the job. Therefore, many of the things you do will be similar to the use of internal controls at work.

In planning the job, you will need to:

• Choose the color
• Gather equipment and materials
• Decide when you will do the work

You will do a risk assessment - by thinking of what can go wrong:

• Paint on the carpet, furniture, draperies, windows and/or moldings
• The previous color may not get completely covered
• Spots could be missed
• The color on the wall may not look like the sample picked at the store

You will install controls - to prevent things from going wrong:

• Mask windows, doors and moldings
• Use plenty of drop clothes
• Keep a damp rag handy to wipe up any drips before they dry
• Paint a small section behind where funiture usually sits and let it dry to check color
• Buy some extra paint in case another coat is needed

You will do quality control - so problems can be fixed as soon as possible:

• Stop and check job after completing one wall
  - Is coverage okay?
  - Is there any paint under the drop clothes?
  - Are edges sharp between painted and unpainted surfaces?
  - Does the color look right?
• What changes in procedure are needed before painting other walls?
• What changes in proceudre are needed before painting other rooms?

If you apply these precautions and considerations, you will be glad you did and will also have a nicer paint job to show off to your friends.