Pets, Plants, and Painting: How We Protect Their Health When Painting Your Home
If you have extensive gardening with delicate plants and foliage around the exterior perimeter of your home, it’s a good idea to ask your painter how he intends to protect your plants. This also applies if you have pets, no harm should come to them from the prep and painting process. The well-being of your animal friends and companions is one of our top priorities.
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Protecting your pets
All necessary precautions should be
followed, these
include:
- Having
the painter’s shop or work area as far away from the living
areas of the house as possible. Make sure your house painter
closes all open paint containers and that all solvent cans are well
sealed before going home at day’s end.
- Of
course, the best protection is not to be present in the area
that’s being painted. If you have a friend that’s
comfortable with your animals, ask them to keep them for a
few days.
- Making
sure to plastic off any pet rooms/enclosures when power
sanding.
The debris and possible lead paint particulates created by the grinding should be kept away from all living creatures, be they pets or people. If your home was built before 1978 there’s a good chance lead paint was used at one time in the past.
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Very small
pets, such as hamsters and birds, will be more susceptible
to damage from paint related contact, debris, fumes, and vapors. All
extra precautions should be used to protect them.
- Make
sure your painting contractor does a safety sweep of the property
before going home each day. Have him put away all
the tools that
could cause harm, such as sharp scrapers and the razor
blades used for window paint removal.
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Protecting your plants
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Gently pry off
any hanging vines or crawlers and tie them off, away from
the area being painted.
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Cover all
plants near the perimeter to keep paint away from them. It’s
OK to use drop cloths or plastic sheeting. Although some
folks won’t agree that using plastic sheeting is OK, I
mention it on account of its extensive use in the painting
industry.
The important thing is to only cover the specific area to be painted, say, only one side of the house at a time. Once done, immediately remove the covering used to allow the plants to breathe.
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Use gardening
stakes to gently tie off any large foliage. Use a piece of
rope and go around the plant and tie the other end to the
gardening stake.
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Although I’ve
already mentioned this, it bears to be repeated: When
covering up plants, heat and suffocation are your greatest enemies.
Only cover the plants on one side of the house and
immediately uncover them to let them cool down breathe as soon as the
painting is done.
- After uncovering the plants – and the paint has dried somewhat – gently give all the greenery a drink of water. The cover up process is traumatic for the plants and water helps them get over the trauma.
