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Control Pace and Observe Wetness

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How to Spray Ceilings Without Lap Marks | Flawless Airless Finish Tips & Tricks

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And then your pace. So once I begin spraying, I'm going to be just walking in a specific pace, watching the paint hit the ceiling and watching that I'm getting a good saturated coat onto the ceiling. If you're walking too fast, you'll notice it if you're watching it. You can see it. You can hear it as the paint's coming out. I can hear the sprayer how hard the sprayer's working. But I'm paying really close attention seeing that paint going, okay, it looks like it's getting really saturated, really good, it looks really wet. You want it to look sopping wet as what you want. I get to the end, I come across, I start backing up, and I start doing my 50% overlap. I'm watching that overlap, making sure it's overlapping, the 50%, I'm making sure it's saturated. And as I'm working down my ceiling, I'm looking at what I've just done also to make sure it all looks super wet. If I see any spot that looks like I went too fast, or I didn't overlap good enough while it's sopping wet, you can go hit it again. If you wait till the end and it all dries, and you realize you had something that wasn't coated as well, and you go back and try to hit that again after it's already drying, you're probably going to get a big flashing spot in the middle of your ceiling. So it's better to get too much on than not enough on. It really comes down to your pace. You want to walk a slow pace, you want to make sure you overlap 50%. If you keep all those things in mind, you'll have success, you'll spray in your ceilings. Paint, I'll talk a little bit about paint.

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