Painting New Construction Interior Walls - PVA Primer

All right. So, we're out here getting ready to uh do our priming and we're doing the prepping, mopping the walls, vacuuming, cocking windows, and masking off. I'm going to talk a little bit about uh the primer we're going to be using. It's a PVA primer. If you've never heard of term polyinyl acetate, and that's a primer specifically for drywall, bare drywall, or drywall mud. It's not a primer for anything else but drywall. If you don't use a PVA primer, some of the challenges you're going to run into, you know, is your paint sticking to the walls. You've got, you know, the sanding and stuff even after mopping. You've got drywall dust on your walls that'll cause adhesion problems if you just try to put a paint over the top of that and you don't prime it with a proper primer. You don't want to use other primers, you know, say above like a PVA primer like Zenzer 123 cover stain multi-urface primer, you know, stuff like that because it's just expensive primers and it's not designed to do what this stuff actually does. A PVA primer goes on and it seals your sheetrock and and what that does is it makes it so your top coat that eventually goes over the top of that will be even across your entire wall and you don't get flashing. You can see we got exposed drywall paper right here where the mud is um not covered those areas. This texture right here is called a sun valley texture here in my area. Some people might call it a skip tri. Some people might call it something else. If you're not f familiar with the term here in Idaho treasure valley it's called sun valley texture with a hand texture on the ceilings. Once again it's extremely important to seal this with the proper uh PVA primer. PVA. Once again, poly vinyl acetate. It's going to seal this bare drywall paper. It's going to seal the mud. It's going to seal everything. So, your top coat when you spray it on, it's going to look professional. It's going to look nice and it's going to look even. So, you want to use a PVA primer irregardless of what other what other types of textures you do have on there. You could run into orange peel textures. You could run into your level five finishes. There's a lot of different textures out there, but use the proper primer so your finish looks like a quality finish and like a professional did it. All right, I've just got just about got everything set up. I'm going to start spraying upstairs. Now, I'm going to talk about ceilings. Well, we typically work from top to bottom in uh new construction. When you're spraying, you know, walls and ceilings and especially ceilings, you want to be able to walk, you know, from end to end of the room. And you don't want to have any obstructions because you don't want to have to start and stop in the middle of the room. Upstairs, everything's moved upstairs. Like downstairs, there's a lot of stuff out in the way. Eventually, when we move downstairs, we're going to move these things all out of the way. I'm going to start um moving myself upstairs, taking my hose upstairs. A couple little uh tips. You know what I like to do is take full g full 5gallon buckets that uh we're using or not using. I'm gonna set them at my corners. So when my hose is going up the stairs, my hose is not hitting the corners and messing up my corner metal, especially when like the hose connection hits that it could damage the corner. So set buckets around those corners, you know, as you're moving around the house and especially going upstairs, have somebody hopefully help feed you that hose going upstairs. So it's kind of the same thing with ceilings. I'm going to walk in to in the walls. I'm going to go from top to bottom of the walls. And I typically start from left to right. I'm right-handed. That's what works for me. And we'll go up there and you'll see what it looks like. I'm going to be messing around with a couple tips. Typically, uh, when I'm spraying walls, I like Titan HA tips cuz they give a nice feathered edge. You don't get, um, hard edges, which could actually become a problem when you're, um, you know, on your top coat and your final finish. you could get fingering and stuff. It could leave um stripes and marks on your walls. Titan HA tips, you know, work best, you know, for that. So, you typically try to work and use the biggest tip that you can so you can move as quick as you can. I'm going to start out with just a 619 messing around. I'm going to eventually grab my 1221, start spraying with a 1221. So, we're I started doing the spraying now upstairs here. And I just wanted to show you here's um my assortment of extensions that I brought upstairs. Now, most of the spraying I do I've got, you know, multiple rooms. All these I'm going to be using the same extension, but I've got a scenario right behind me. This little, you know, um closet right here. tiny little closet. Pretty, you know, difficult if not impossible to spray it with that um 30 30 or 36 in extension. I probably want something shorter. You know, maybe this extension or that that's probably a 12. That might be a 24. We also got a six. You can just stack them too. Like I've been known to stack multiple extensions. If say I got a vaulted ceiling, can stack all kinds of extensions together. can stack these right on the top of this gun right here. And now you can see the reach that I would have, you know, right there. So, I'm definitely gonna uh I'll take and spray like everything that I can spray with this long extension. Then I'll just switch it out. And I'll show you how quick, you know, you can just change these things out. Now, I just go in here. I think what uh probably a 24 I could reach a ceiling with a 24 or not a 24, but a 12. It's probably either 12 or 10. Um, extensions. There's all kinds of a bazillion different sizes, but just comes off like that. Pretty quick and easy. Gonna attach it just like that. Then the end of the gun comes off. And then I just set them like this cuz I don't want paint coming out and getting down inside right there. I don't mind if it comes out that end. So I'm going to set it aside. attach the end end, adjust everything the way I want it, and then I'll spray that closet and then switch it out again. So now I can get inside here. Now I can move, you know, from side to side and spray everything. Not a problem. Triad quick release extensions. Absolutely love them for new construction, interior painting, exterior painting also.