Choose Appropriate Painting Tools

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HOW TO paint ceilings FAST and like a professional PAINTER

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For speed and efficiency, use an 18-inch roller with a 3/8-inch nap, preferably a contractor-grade white woven roller. A large 5-gallon pan is also essential to hold ample paint, minimizing refills and speeding up the process. The video host showcases a large paint pan designed for these wider rollers.

Goal: Select tools that enhance painting speed and efficiency.

Tools and materials

18-inch Roller — Applying paint to large ceiling areas quickly
5-gallon Paint Pan — Holding a large volume of paint for the 18-inch roller

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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

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