Verizon SuperPages.com Home Improvement Guide Features House Painting Tips From Super Handyman Al Carrell

Online Shopping Site, Home Improvement Expert, Provide Advice On Interior and Exterior House Painting, Including Ideas on Paint Brush and Paint Roller Selection and Cleaning

DALLAS, TX (PRWEB) April 4, 2005 -- Verizon SuperPages.com and Super Handyman Al Carrell offer house painting tips and techniques in the third of six do-it-yourself home improvement project guides available on Verizon SuperPages.com (http://www.superpages.com/release), the premier online shopping site. For example, Carrell says paint brush and paint roller selection are important decisions to make before painting the exterior or interior of your house.

Brushing takes more work, rollers cover smoothly and sprayers are easiest but often requiring cleaning or tinkering with the sprayer during the job," Carrell says. I like to use a roller, with brushes only for spots, like corners, a roller cant do."

When choosing a color to paint your house, Carrell reminds that light colors make surfaces look larger while dark colors make them look smaller. You can use paint card samples from your local paint or hardware store (http://www.superpages.com/homeimprove), but a better method is to buy a small can of the color and see how it actually looks on the wall.

Carrell, a nationally known expert on home improvement and repair including house painting, served for eight years as spokesman for The Home Depot. He advises homeowners to get the best available quality of paint so the new surface looks better and lasts longer.

In addition to house painting, other topics covered in the six-week do-it-yourself series on Verizon SuperPages.com (http://www.superpages.com/release) include plumbing, energy saving, furniture refinishing, patio deck building and how to assemble a basic tool kit.

Carrells newspaper column, The Super Handyman," appears in about 100 cities including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Phoenix, Tucson, Orlando, Fort Wayne, St. Louis and Nashville. He also has a weekly radio show in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

About Verizon SuperPages.com

Verizon Information Services, a division of Verizon Communications Corp. (NYSE: VZ), is the nations most advanced provider of yellow pages and related shopping information. It has $3.6 billion in revenues from products including: Verizon SuperPages yellow pages; Verizon SuperPages.com (http://www.superpages.com), the nations number 1 Internet directory and a leading online shopping resource; and the SuperPages On the Go information directory offered through Verizon Wireless Get It Now services and on other wireless carriers. The company is the largest publisher of Hispanic directories in the U.S. and the first to provide a Hispanic online shopping resource (http://www.superpages.com/espanol).

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