Lay Out the Section and Maintain Wet Edge
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How To Roll A Wall. Laying Out Interior Walls. Tips from The Idaho Painter.
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(1,948 characters)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
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