How to Paint Brown Living Room - Part 3 of 7 - Vacuum and Texture Clean Up

Fig.1 Vacuum

By Gary Boutin

Supplies and Tools:
Particle mask 
Painter's tarp
Vacuum Cleaner with tools

Tyler Zowat lives in Perris, California. Had hired a local plumber to replace

Fig.2 Dust mask

his bathroom shower and sink hardware. Somehow the plumber noticed the wall was wet and replaced the pipe but he had to cut a hole in the living room wall. The plumber stated he does no finish work. That when he used my service company. He purchased all his paint and plumbing parts from The Home Depot.


This post shows the six steps to clean up the repair mess. 

Step 1: Above right fig.1 shows a vacuum cleaner and fig.2 shows a particle mask to protect the lungs form the joint compound dust. Below in fig.3 shows the vacuum brush is vacuuming up the wall dust.

Fig.3 Joint compound dust

Step 2: Fig.4 below shows the vacuum tools has cleaned up the gray tarp used in the wall repair.

Fig.4 Vacuum brush

Step 3: Fig.5 shows the vacuum with an extended pole vacuuming the edges of the living room wall. Vacuuming below the tarp will be needed too.

Fig.5 Remove dust 
from baseboards

Step 4: Fig.6 shows the gray tarp has been removed and the vacuuming of thee edges has been done and some more vacuuming of the painter's tarp is being done. Vacuum on top of the cloth duct tape too.

Fig.6

Step 5: Fig.7 shows a another round around the damaged baseboards and very edge of the living room carpeting.

Fig.7

How To Paint Brown Living Room:

• Part 1 of 7 - Taping the Living Room
• Part 2 of 7 - Repair Wall
• Part 3 of 7 - Vacuum and Texture Clean Up
• Part 4 of 7 - Texture and Clean Up
• Part 5 of 7 - Cut Two Walls
• Part 6 of 7 - Roll Walls
• Part 7 of 7 - Living Room Finished

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