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Maintain 50% Overlap and Consistent Pace

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

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So wherever that may happen, you'll want to keep that in mind. So now a new construction, I always have the ability to walk from your logical start and stops. And it's changing on this ceiling all over the place. But I still can just walk. And I'm going to be start one corner. I'm going to start just working my way this direction. I'm going to start my first pass. My first pass is going to be a double pass, because as I overlap 50%, everything's getting two coats of paint. Your first pass, your first lap won't get two coats. Two passes and then begin overlapping 50%. Your 50% overlap is extremely important. Because what that's doing, you're overlapping. So if my spray patterns, you know, this big, I'm going to move over next and I'm going to overlap at 50%. You're getting a nice thick coat of paint. The worst thing you can do in a ceiling is go too fast, not overlap properly, and have thick layers of paint, thin layers of paint, and it'll all dry unevenly. And that's what you're eventually going to see has a lot marks in your ceiling. So your 50% has to be equal across the board. Hopefully you have the right lighting where you can see that. 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…

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