Back rolling & Back brushing Paint. Why Should You Back Roll After Spraying

painter coming to you with another answer to your questions I'm getting on YouTube. And this is a question I'm getting quite often. And this is a question in regards to back rolling paint. And do we actually back roll our paint? There's a lot of different situations where you would and you wouldn't back roll paint. Typically, and you know, most often when it comes to us, we're not back rolling the paint when we're actually spraying it. Anytime we got an exterior, if we've got any type of blistering, blistering or damaged paint, we're going to be sanding it. We're going to be priming it. And we back brush and back rolled that prior to spraying it. All your trim, exterior, fascia, window trim, door trim is going to get hand brushed and rolled anyways, so it doesn't get back rolled. But the body of an exterior of a house, we typically don't back roll it. We only back roll what's necessary, and that's anything that's had any type of blistering or peeling. it's been sanded and primed. Then we typically back brush it and back roll it prior to spraying it. Once we spray it, we don't mess with the paint. We don't take and back roll and back brush it because it actually can cause touch-up issues and cause discoloration in the paint. When it comes to the interior painting, do we back roll when we actually spray paint on the interior. The only time we actually back roll anything on the interior is when we're dealing with new drywall and new construction. And that depends on the builder whether they require to be back rolled or not. It's good practice to back roll your new drywall if it's never been painted before. If we're dealing with new drywall that needs to be back rolled, we're going to be priming it with a PVA primer. We're going to be spraying it and back rolling at that point in time. I would say about 50% of the time we do new construction, the builders don't require it. So for speed and to actually make more money because it's more labor intensive to back roll it, we don't back roll it. if the builders require it or it's a higherend custom home. Higherend custom homes, we're typically going to invest more labor and more money and then we would back roll the paint. So, those are a couple of scenarios. Hopefully, that answers your questions whether we back roll or back roll the paint.