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Is back-rolling necessary? #tiptoday #yesyoucan #paintlife

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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This instructional segment demonstrates the technique of back rolling immediately after spraying exterior paint to ensure a consistent color and texture, particularly on siding with a wood-grain pattern. It emphasizes the importance of timing for dark colors but notes that some paints offer excellent color consistency even if back rolled slightly after initial spray.

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That's why I sprayed this. You gotta realize getting a close look at it, it really needs to be back rolled. And ideally, this back rolling should be done first. Especially if you'll be able to see it like dark colors, you'll see where you actually back rolled. If you do it after the fact. So, but here's another good point about this paint, everywhere where I've done this and it's dried, the color consistency is like spot on. You can't even see where I've back rolled, which a lot of paints, you know, you cannot get away with that. This isn't a very dark color, so it lends itself to making it easier to do this. Now, if I was doing that front door color, you could never get away, you know, with doing this. So, you just gotta look at the situate.

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