Yes, depending on your service level. With Indiana Painting Company’s Better or Best interior painting service, our team moves furniture and returns the items we moved after the work is complete. With Basic service, homeowners move their own furniture. In every case, homeowners should secure small items, keepsakes and other belongings before the crew arrives.
What Does Indiana Painting Move Before Painting?
Furniture moving depends on the service level you select for your interior painting project.
With Better or Best service, Indiana Painting moves furniture as part of the project. Our team also protects furniture and belongings from dust and paint spatter while work is underway. When the painting is complete, we return the furniture and other items that our team moved.
With Basic service, homeowners are responsible for moving their furniture before the painting crew arrives.
Regardless of service level, small items and keepsakes should be secured by the homeowner rather than left for the painting crew to handle.
You can learn more about what is included with Indiana Painting’s Good, Better and Best painting service levels before choosing the right scope for your home.
What Should Homeowners Move Themselves?
Start with the smaller belongings throughout the room. Remove or secure keepsakes, small decorations, clothing, toys and other loose objects. It’s also sensible to personally secure valuables, medications, personal documents and irreplaceable belongings, rather than leaving them in an active work area.
If you have selected Basic service, you’ll also need to move the furniture away from the walls that will be painted.
You do not need to completely empty the room. Furniture and other items can generally be moved toward the center of the room or otherwise positioned away from the walls being painted.
What About Large, Fragile or Wall-Mounted Items?
If your project involves something you aren’t sure how to prepare, bring it up during your interior painting estimate. That might include antiques, pianos, large entertainment centers, delicate electronics, wall-mounted televisions, artwork or unusually heavy furniture.
Rather than assuming the painting crew will move a particular specialty item, identify it during the estimate and confirm who will be responsible for it before the project begins. This is especially important when deciding what to do before painters arrive, because it gives you time to make other arrangements when necessary.
Prepare Rooms and Walkways Before the Crew Arrives
In addition to preparing furniture and belongings, make sure the crew can safely reach the rooms being painted.
Clear small objects, toys, clothing and clutter from walkways and work areas. Make arrangements for children and pets, so they can remain away from active painting areas while the crew is working.
Indiana Painting will also communicate with you before the project begins. If there are still open items that need to be resolved, we’ll send you a list of questions that should be answered at least a few days before our team arrives.
That gives both you and the painting crew an opportunity to confirm the remaining details before painting day.
Your Day-Before-Painting Checklist
Before your Indiana Painting crew arrives:
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- Secure small items and keepsakes.
- Remove valuables, medications, personal documents and irreplaceable belongings from the work area.
- Clear clothing, toys and loose objects from floors and walkways.
- If you selected Basic service, move furniture to the center of the room or away from the walls being painted.
- Confirm responsibilities for unusually large, heavy, fragile or specialty items.
- Make sure the crew has clear access to the rooms being painted.
- Arrange a safe place away from the work area for children and pets.
- Make sure you’ve answered any outstanding pre-project questions from Indiana Painting.
Know What to Expect Before Painting Day
Preparing for interior painting doesn’t have to mean emptying your entire room. What you’ll need to move depends in part on the service level you select and the belongings in your home.
During your residential interior painting estimate, ask what Indiana Painting will move, what you’ll need to prepare yourself and how your selected service level affects painting-day preparation. Clarifying those details ahead of time makes it easier to know exactly what to do before your painters arrive.
