HOW TO ROLL WALLS. Rolling Interior Walls. Painting Walls/interior painting tips

This is Chris, the Idaho painter. In this video, we're going to show you one of method that we use to go about rolling interior walls. And we got some interior walls right here. We're going to be rolling it a dark brown color, an accent color. And this is one of the scenarios where it's pretty important to do a proper roll out and layout of your wall. So, we're going to show you one of our methods of properly rolling a wall. This is one way that we do it. And this is how we do it and how we like to do it. You can try doing other methods, but this is a method that's been proven good for us. So, here we go. Now, rolling this wall. I've got myself a 9in nap. This is a small room, so we're using a 9 in. We like using 18 in naps uh quite often. That makes our process a lot faster painting. But this is a small room and this is an accent wall. So I'm using a 9 in nap. I'm using an extension pole. And we got these extension poles we use. And this will actually keep you from bending over down to load up your nap and actually having to bend over to roll your wall and stretch to get to the ceiling. So this is a lifesaver. Helps your back. Helps your knees. And so you definitely want to get yourself an extension pull when you're doing your interior painting. So I got my extension pole. Got myself a 9-inch nap here. And I like the white dove pretty naps. And this is a 38 inch nap. We got smooth walls here. And this type of nap works really well for us on our smooth sundaly texture walls. Got a 9 in tray down here. Loaded up with my paint. And I'm just going to load up my nap. And my nap's all loaded up. I actually loaded up. I've been rolling this wall. So you want to get it good loaded up prior to painting and ready to go. So now I got my wall here. We're going to show you how we go about rolling this wall and laying it out. Now rolling this wall, I actually started right here. This one side, I'm actually working myself to that corner. So I'm moving this way. So I'm going to be rolling this wall and I'm going to be rolling and overlapping by 50%. So you want to overlap and keep yourself a wet edge and move fast enough so your paint's not drying so it's always wet. If you don't keep a wet edge, you're going to get lap marks all over your wall. And then your layout is extremely important when you're using these dark colors, laying it out from top to bottom. So, I'll show you what I mean. Get my nap loaded up. I'm going to unload it on my wall, put it in the middle, go from top to bottom, just like that. And now my nap is actually run out of paint. So, I'm going to load it back up again. And then put it right in the middle. Start down. Roll it up. Got my overlap 50%. And now load it up one more time. Do the same thing. Put in the middle. Roll top to bottom. Now, because I got a dark color, I want to lay this thing out properly. So, I'm going to go from top to bottom and lay it out. And you just want to put just a little bit of pressure. or if you put too much pressure, you're going to get trailing edges on the edges of your nap. So, you're just holding it lightly when you're doing your layout. When you're actually putting on the paint, put a little more pressure so it actually gets down in the crevices. If um you've got like an orange peel texture or sun valley texture, you wanted to get down into those crevices. So, I'm going to get my paint on the wall. Got a picture hook. We always leave the picture hooks in. Just roll right over them. So now I got my paint on new section. Now I'm just going to lay it out from top to bottom. Now I'm going to work another couple feet. 50%. And one trick when you're load up your your nap in your tray, when you're bringing it to your wall, you don't want to load it up and then just carry it straight to the wall after it's in the pan. You actually want to load it up and then spin it when it actually goes from your pan to your wall so you don't actually drip any So, I'm rotating the nap. Start in the middle. Lay that section of paint out. Load it up again. You have to just keep loading up your paint. Every time you do a stripe, load up your paint. Keep your pan close to you so you don't have to reach and stretch for your pan. Just did another two to three foot section. Now I'm just going to load it up or lay it out from top to bottom. We did our cutins first and the cut ends aren't quite dry. You don't want your cutins to dry otherwise you'll get a haloing strips right there. So we did cut in this wall and prior to it drying I start to roll it and lay it out. So as I'm moving down this wall I just want to keep moving my tray. I don't want to be walking back and forth my tray. My tray should be reachable at all times. You want to move, you know, fairly quickly so your paint doesn't dry. So, you're overlapping it. It's staying wet. Extremely important to keep that wet edge. I got my thing on. Load up my nap. Going to lay it out. When you're doing your layout, it's also a good idea if you remember, always laid it out with your nap either pointing to the right or pointing to the left. Whatever way you do it you like to do it. Just keep it consistent. We got to the end here. I'm going to lay this out and then got to our corner here. Prior to this drying, we're going to want to cut in our corner. Thanks for watching our videos and don't forget when you're done watching, don't forget to like us, share us, and subscribe to our channel.