{"id":1092,"date":"2015-12-17T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:24:20","slug":"painting-secrets-the-pros-wont-tell-you-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2015\/12\/17\/painting-secrets-the-pros-wont-tell-you-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Canvas Drop Cloths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"listicle--item-title\"><span class=\"listicle--item-hed\">Use Canvas Drop Cloths<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Pros don&#8217;t use bed sheets as drop cloths, and neither should you. Thin sheets won&#8217;t stop splatters and spills from seeping through to your flooring. And while plastic can contain spills, the paint stays wet for a long time. That wet paint can (and usually does) find the bottom of your shoes and get tracked through the house.<\/p>\n<p>Use what the pros use\u2014canvas drop cloths. They&#8217;re not slippery and they absorb splatters (but still wipe up large spills or they can bleed through). &#8220;Unless you&#8217;re painting a ceiling, you don&#8217;t need a jumbo-size cloth that fills the entire room,&#8221; a pro says. &#8220;A canvas cloth that&#8217;s just a few feet wide and runs the length of the wall is ideal for protecting your floor, and it&#8217;s easy to move.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use Canvas Drop Cloths Pros don&#8217;t use bed sheets as drop cloths, and neither should you. Thin sheets won&#8217;t stop splatters and spills from seeping through to your flooring. And while plastic can contain spills, the paint stays wet for a long time. That wet paint can (and usually does) find the bottom of your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2015\/12\/17\/painting-secrets-the-pros-wont-tell-you-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use Canvas Drop Cloths&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}