Prepping With the Right Products

When painting a room, it’s easy for consumers to focus on paint colors and applicators, but paint prep products are just as important to the painting process. Stock these products, and consider creating a paint prep area or endcap for your customers so they are fully prepared to take on a painting project and achieve high-quality results. 

Protect

Painting can be messy, and customers need to protect areas where they are working. Painter’s tape and drop cloths provide the necessary protection during painting projects.  

Painter’s Tape

• FrogTape^® Multi-Surface Painting Tape
• Duck^® Brand Professional Painter’s Tape

Uses 

• Protects light switches
• Protects window and door trim, moldings and baseboards
• Protects doorknobs and doorstops 

Drop Cloths

• Tape Man Blue’s Carpet Protection Film
• Trimaco’s Stay Put^® Vinyl Slip Resistant Dropcloth

Uses

• Protects floors 
• Protects furniture 

Repair

Customers may need to repair holes and smooth imperfections before painting. Merchandise all the necessary products for repair in one place to increase your customers’ ease of shopping. 

Spackle 

• DAP^® Fast Dry Premium Spackling
• Erase-A-Hole Wall Repair Putty

Putty Knife 

• Red Devil’s 3-Piece Plastic Knife Set
• DEWALT 3″ Putty Knife | Stainless Steel w/Soft Grip Handle | DXTT-2-139

Sanding

• 3M™ SandBlaster™ Sanding Sponge
• Warner Sanding Block Hand Sander, 34436A, Dimpled Rubber

Clean

Cleaning the surface before painting allows for better adhesion to the surface and an overall smoother application. Vacuums can be used to dust off baseboards and moldings, and damp rags can be used to wipe down walls.

Shop-Vac

• Stanley’s SL18116P6 gal 4 MAX HP Pro Vacuum
• Craftsman’s CMXEVBE17594 6.0 Peak HP** Wet/Dry Vac With Attachments (12 gal)

Rags

• Trimaco’s Supertuff^® Professional Tack Cloth

• RagLady^®’s Economy Terry Cloths 12×12