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For the whole year I've been painting this room on and off again, so here is a "step by step timelapse" of my progress. (step 1) Preparations: I was given the task painting the walls blue, but before I could do that I had to do some preparations. First, I needed to cover the floor with protective paper (make sure to use paper that doesn't absorb paint easily). Then I'd use masking tape to keep the paper in place + to tape the baseboard. (step 2) Starting off with a blank slate: After I'm done laying down protective paper, I could move forward into painting the walls. To start, I first marked the edges of the baseboard (= jalkalista) with a 50 mm paintbrush using Prof 7  wall paint, which was tinted blue. I'd also mark the room's ceiling molding (= kattolista) with a paint edger (= rajaaja). Lastly I painted around the window casing. When I'm finished with painting the baseboard and ceiling molding, I'll move onto painting the corners of the roo...

 Customer Comission #2 Step 1: Removing paint with blowtorch For the first step, I'll have to remove the paint that's on the surface.  Since the paint is an oil-paint, which is notoriously known to be quite a hard paint to remove, I'll have to use a blowtorch and some paint scrapers to do the job. I'll also be using a respirator mask and protective eyeglasses to protect myself from toxic fumes and from anything hitting my eyes.  After hours of trying to get as much paint off as possible, the end result looks like this: Step 2: Sanding As you can see in the picture, there's still some paint left so I'll need to do some sanding. But before I can start sanding, I need to put on a dust mask and some protective eyeware. For the furniture, I'll be using a sandpaper as well as a sander (with a grit level of  P100  for the paper and P120 for the sander ) to remove leftover paint and smoothen the surface.  After I've done with the sanding process, I'll remov...