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

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What happens here

The presenter introduces the technique for rolling and laying out paint on a wall. He emphasizes the importance of thoroughly loading the paint roller with paint from the paint pan, ensuring it is well-saturated. A key tip provided is to constantly rotate the roller when transferring it from the paint pan to the wall (and during painting breaks) to prevent paint drips. This subconscious rotation keeps paint from pooling and dripping off the roller sleeve.

Goal: Load the paint roller with sufficient paint and prevent dripping

Tools and materials

  • Paint Pan
  • Paint Roller
  • Paint (Primer)

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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

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