Site Protection

I take pride in protecting your stuff

I have the expertise to protect your floors, counters, tile, appliances, furniture and any other adjacent surface from paint, dust and debris.

- Floor protection from the entrance to the work area

- Zip poles and zipper doors

- High CFM fans to extract dirty air and pull in clean air

- HEPA vacuum attached sanders and cutting tools

One of the most important parts of protecting a client’s property is setting up a temporary negative air pressure booth. It’s not enough to put up a plastic wall or run an airscrubber if you want to keep the rest of the home free from dust. The tools involved to set this up are simple but many contractors don’t actually understand airflow and how it moves through your home.

We use our zip poles and high CFM fans to move a large volume of air, forcing clean air into the space. When you see our booth setup with plastic that is ballooning into the booth, you know it’s working to keep the rest of the property clean. We will also block or place filters on any HVAC registers in the spray area.

Here you can see before sealing the insides of the cabinets I have labeled the hinges and corresponding boxes.

Here you can see a typical day 1 site protection: doors removed, hinges labeled, site protection begins including floor protection, counters, some walls, ceilings, appliances and inside the cabinet boxes. As you can see there is more to be done including protecting the sink, light fixtures, and setting up zipwalls. Tools are organized at the end of the day.

Another angle of the typical site protection completed on day 1

By day 2 I like to have all of my site protection completed including my zip pole walls with zipper doors and a fan so it’s ready to be a working negative air pressure booth. This will stay up until the work is complete. With all of my site protection done I can focus on sanding the surfaces that we’ll be painting.

Here you can see the site protection stays up during the process. If any parts need a little fresh tape or paper, I’ll check it each day. It’s important to maintain a clean booth both to keep the client’s property clean but also to keep my work clean for the best finish. Here you can see by day 3 I have sprayed a bonding primer. The primer is tinted to a similar color to the topcoat.

Here you can see what the project starts to look like once the spray work is complete. All site protection comes down, surfaces cleaned, floors vacuumed, tools organized.

And here you can see with the doors reinstalled. There may be some touch up required to the walls that we had to do after removing the site protection, maybe some minor caulking to be done. Some of those issues are unavoidable because the wall paint may not have been applied correctly in some cases. But I will touch it up and leave the kitchen looking the way I found it other than the work being completed.