How To Roll A Wall. Laying Out Interior Walls. Tips from The Idaho Painter.

[Applause] [Music] this is Chris Idaho painter here on painti TV today I'm going to show you how I go about uh rolling and laying out a wall and it's just uh kind of like my method that's worked for me for uh 20 some years and I'll just give you I'm priming this wall for an accent wall I'm going to show you you know how I go about rolling a wall how I go about laying it out now one thing uh you want to do is load up your roller and load it up uh nice and well get it really saturated you before you start rolling and every time you uh roll the wall load that thing up really well get a lot of paint on it just a handy little tip transferring your roller to your wall if you rotate your roller just subconsciously rotate it to the wall you'll never get any drips anywhere unless you roll it like really fast and flick paint everywhere but I just take load up my roller and I subconsciously twirl my roller in my hand and I'll never drip pain it's the same about just I'm just standing here talking to you on this video um I won't drip paint as long as I'm rotating this roller and I use that method when I'm doing my cuttings I use the method when I'm rolling a wall I'm always just rotating this roller so the paint does it you'll um sag the one in and eventually drip so just try to use that that method when you're you know rolling your wall and you're transferring your roller from your pan to the wall so I'm going to load it up now I'm going to transfer it to my wall moving it and I like to and this is just me I like to take my roller and set it right in the wall and I begin unloading my roller at that point in time now some people are very particular about the direction their roller faces when they're actually rolling cuz if if I'm rolling in this direction it's pushing the roller onto the frame if I'm rolling like this and going this direction if you're really pushing really hard and you're what we're called dry napping you could work your roller off the frame and I do have to say uh in my career um a couple times I've actually rolled a roller right off the frame and it did fall off and so what I like to do is set my roller right in the middle and I'm going to face it always to my left and I'm going to begin unrolling from a top to bottom motion until my paint is evenly distributed on that wall in that section now that section is loaded with paint I like to reload my roller you know what we called um dry napping if your loader or your roller starts to run out of paint it's going to start painting pulling paint off the wall so now I'm going to take load it up set it back in the middle Again Begin unrolling my paint from my roller and a top the bottom motion careful to not touch my ceiling so I don't have to touch it up now that's nice and saturated going to load it up again it's hard to um just emphasize enough how often you have to load your roller keep loading that thing up keep saturating it with paint so you don't dry na your wall so now I'm unloading it top to bottom I'm getting my paint nice and evenly distributed now I've got a section that's about you know um 3 feet long that's been loaded with paint I'm going to hit my edge here just like that now I'm just going to go back and I'm going to lay it out and I like to lay out from top to bottom top to bottom top and you can see I've got my arm fully extended I've found the point of where my arm is fully extended with my roller and I'm not touching the top of my ceiling and that way I know every single time coming out I'm reaching same distance I'm not going to touch my ceiling that's how I like to roll a wall and I use this method all along this is I'm priming this wall for an accent wall if I was doing it from um Florida ceiling it would be the same method I'm using just a 9in roller a lot of people are going going to tell me why aren't you using an 18in roller I'm just using or I'm just painting a small wall right here so I don't need to load up an 18inch roller which is going to take a lot more paint to load up it's going to take a lot more time to clean up so I just want to use a small roller that's easily manipulated on this wall I'm going to set it in the middle begin unloading until my paint is evenly distributed that paint needs to be even ly distributed from top to bottom you want the same Mill thickness here as you do up there if it doesn't look like it's evenly distributed you can work it out a little bit more and work it over and just work it until it's evenly distributed you don't want to work do that working method that the paint starts to dry because then it's what it's going to call what it'll start tacking and pulling and it'll stipple your wall really heavily so I'm going to load up my roller once again I'm going to just move it as I transfer it to the wall unload you're going to be working 50% overlap your overlap is very important because it's what we call keeping a wet Edge you want to keep a wet Edge at all times so you don't leave lap marks roller lap marks overlap marks on your wall we want to keep it saturated across the wall even Mill thickness across the wall spreading my paint out top the bottom I've got to the end of this window now I can come back and work on my layout lay it out from top to bottom I can turn my roller opposite direction so I can get a little bit closer to my tape just like that now I'm going to roll out from top to bottom I'm going to come back hit my cutins get closer to my ceiling doing my cutting with a brush and I'll show you what that looks like a little bit later so there are some simple little tips and tricks when it comes to Rolling a wall it's how I roll a wall I've been rolling with that method for like say over 20 years it's given me some amazing looking accent walls it's given me um you know a lot of nice looking professional looking projects and a lot of happy customers if you got any tips or tricks rolling walls just leave it down in the comment section below if you've got anything 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