Checkered Pattern?

[comet]

I am thinking of painting my fllor this weekend. I have seen some really nice two-tone checkered patterns. Any tips on how to do this? Thanks in advance.

[Luckydevil]

I believe one of the guys said in their post that he taped out the pattern and did the white. Then he retaped and did the black. Came out looking pretty nice too.

I'll see if I can't find that post for you.

[superswamper]

Here's the thread I think Lucky was referring to.

Painted Checkered Pattern (http://www.garagejunkies.net/showthread.php?t=792&highlight=corvette)

Hope this helps.

[Craig Balzer]

One point to consider: if you start at one wall and work across the floor you'll end up with partial squares on one side and a nice clean pattern on the opposite wall. Same with the “top/bottom” walls of your pattern.

A tip for laying tile may be useful for painting the checkerboard on the floor. Use a carpenters snap line (it looks like a tape measure but has a long string inside – coiled up inside a bunch of blue chalk). Find the exact center point of one wall and measure the exact middle of the floor across to the opposing wall. Do this with both pairs of walls. Where the chalk lines intersect is the precise middle of your floor. Start lying out the checkerboard from that mid-point. When doing tiles, the advice is to work each quadrant separately always laying the tiles in a staircase pattern.

This approach makes the entire pattern look centered on the floor. I am guessing that the staircase pattern is important with the tiles to get the pattern square to the walls. I am not sure if it is as important when laying out a pattern to be painted.

HTH

Craig