HOW TO paint ceilings FAST and like a professional PAINTER

give you five tips to paint ceilings like a professional did it and do them fast. We're going to be rolling these ceilings with a an 18-in roller. You can either spray them with an aer sprayer or roll them. Just for reasons here on this situation, we're going to be rolling them today. They're going to be removing the carpets. I don't need to put any drops down, but stay tuned for this video to see how we roll these ceilings and make them look like a professional did it. Here we go. So, the first step in rolling these ceilings really fast, we're going to be using an 18-in roller. You have the option of using an 18 in or a 9 in. Don't want to be looking up at these ceilings for very long, so we'll be spraying them or rolling them with an 18-in roller. This is a contractor white woven roller, and we like to roll our ceilings with a 3/8 in roller nap. So, this is all about speed, getting done fast. Got my pans over here. I'm using a 5gallon pan with this 18-in roller. You can show me that. Bring that pan there, John. We'll show them what this pan looks like. This is a really large pan to roll out of. Definitely want to have a big pan that's going to hold a lot of paint. So this is a 5gallon pan, 18inch roller. Tip number one for speed. So tip number two in rolling these ceilings really fast. We want to get the edges done the very first thing because we're going to want to be able to roll our walls and go up the wall and do our cut in. So that's going to dry first. We're using a special roller that the roller rolls over the edges right here. And you've got the lint or the fuzz on the edge of the roller. So, somebody's running around with this 9-in roller and doing all the edges first, and it it goes really fast with this type of roller. So, check this out. We're going to show you what this looks like. See that up there? That's fine. So, in rolling these edges up here, here's a roller all loaded up. It's got the knaf or lints all the way wrapped around the edges. And it makes it really simple doing these edges. You can see up here, we've already rolled it. And it gets right in those edges nice and easy. It fills it all in quick and fast. Just like that. This thing is awesome. It's a new roller that uh guy just created here recently. We got sent a whole box of them and stuff and they work great. So, this is one thing is going to save you a lot of time. So, tip number three is using the proper product. We like to use a dead flat paint when it comes to painting ceilings. It hides imperfections a lot better. It doesn't show light glare and then it doesn't show the flashing or roller lap marks like a satin or semig gloss or even an HL paint does. So definitely use a flat paint wherever you can. There's situations where you probably should be using a flat paint like in a bathroom or a kitchen. But 99% of the time we're going to be using a flat paint and it's just going to make your ceilings look a lot better. There's a lot of products out there you can use that are really good, but make sure it's dead flat. So tip number four is rolling your ceilings, laying them out and rolling them in the proper direction. So check this out. We got John here. He's rolling the ceiling right here with our 18-inch nap. And there's certain things you want to take into consideration when you roll your ceiling so that it'll look like a professional did it. One is the direction you roll the paint and then how you actually lay it out. So John, we're going to have him rolling here and then we're going to ask him to talk about it just a little bit. So, I see John, you're rolling the ceilings now and you're laying it out up there. Why don't you tell us, you know, why you're rolling it, the direction you're rolling it, and how to go about laying it out. Okay. So, anytime we walk into a room and we're doing ceilings, one of the things we want to think about is uh with two things. You want to think about where the light is coming from and you want to think about where uh a person or a guest is going to be predominantly standing and seeing the ceiling. So, a room like this, we've got uh light coming in on the south side and we've got light coming in on the east side. What we want to do is we want to roll against the the length of this room so that when someone's coming in from the the door on the east side and they're looking this way, they're not seeing that light flashing across the roll marks. They're less likely to see the light if it's the the lap marks if they're going across them than they are if they're going towards them. And then how do you go about laying it out? You're going to be painting it up here on the ceiling. And I think, you know, you got to lay it out instead of just rolling it in all random directions. You're going to get it on there and lay it out. Yeah. So, I always work in small squares. Uh my I work my way down to keep a wet edge. So, like this ceiling, I'll split it into three chunks. I'll do one chunk that's about, you know, 4T x 4T and then another one and then another one. And then when I'm always done with each section, I roll that the that square out all going the same direction and then pick my nap up and go the same direction because you want that stippling to all be going the same way so that you don't cast different looking shadows one way or the other. Cool. So, this is the entrance to this room right here. I'm standing at the the door entrance and we got windows right here that are going to be casting in natural light. And the door behind me is a glass door. And this is where people enter in. And so you can see we're rolling the direction is going crossways instead of lengthwise. And so we've chose that direction because of the natural lighting. We'll walk into this other room here and we'll show you another scenario. So we're This is the entrance to this office right here. Here we got a window right there. So this room right here, instead of running and laying out the ceiling coming towards me to the entrance of this door, we're going to run it across. So it's going to be running from corner to corner right there. And you're going to less likely see lap marks or flashing if when you're spraying if you run it that direction. This room right here has no windows, no doors, or it has a door, but no windows. And we're going to be running it instead of linkwise coming to me, we're going to be running it from this corner to that corner crosswise. So tip number five to paint your ceilings and making them look like a professional did it. We like to paint the vents and any type of lights, can lights or anything so they match the ceilings. A lot of times these the vents, lights, and any type of fixtures that are mounted into the ceilings. They yellow over time and look kind of old and dingy. And even if they're brand new, it looks a lot better if they match and blend in with the ceiling. So what we do is typically they're metal and they're high gloss. We'll take a bomb can of primer and we use like an extreme bonding primer and we'll spray those things before we roll the ceilings with a spray can of bonding primer. So run around spray those with a bonding primer and then we take a handheld airless sprayer and we'll go around and spray them with our flat spray paint or flat wall paint that we'd be rolling on. If you're spraying your ceilings with an airless sprayer, then you don't have to worry about getting out a handheld. But the handhelds are really, really convenient when it comes to spraying these ceilings. We're going to be rolling them cuz we get a lot better. You'll get a lot better finish if you roll it. It looks a lot nicer. Same with the walls. So, this is an important um office building right here. Rolling them. Want those vents to match and look really good. So, we're spraying them with a handheld after we're done rolling it. So, we're going to spray spray the vents, spray the lights, and then we're going to come in and roll and cut in around it, too, so we don't have any overspray flashing. So, that's tip number five. So, there you have it. Five tips to painting a ceiling like a professional did it. Hope you've enjoyed this video. Please give me a thumbs up. Please consider subscribing to our channel. One pro tip, while you're painting your ceilings, use safety glasses. John's been rolling these ceilings probably not even an hour. And there's speckles all over those safety glasses. Saves your eyeballs. So, those that speckles and splatter coming down would actually be in John's eyes. So, you know, wear safety goggles while you're rolling ceilings. If you use a high quality paint, we use a high quality paint designed specifically for ceilings and it splatters a little bit less than than our paint. A lot less than a lot less. Yep. Hopefully you've enjoyed this video. Please consider um checking us out on Instagram.