Is it better to do the flooring or paint first?

It somewhat depends on what type of flooring you are doing (as well as demo), what condition your walls are in and who is doing the painting.

Assuming that you are getting the work done professionally, it is usually better to do most of the painting AFTER the flooring and most of the prep work BEFORE the flooring.

It’s one of the most common mistakes I see. It often causes rework and costs the customer money.

It somewhat depends on what type of flooring you are doing.

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The reason for that is that this can damage the floors.

The ideal is to first do any prep work to the walls

Especially given that the ladders will rest on the floors.

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It’s often better to paint the ceilings first

From there, you should rip up the floors.

Removing base boards from the walls will usually result in paint chipping

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