Painting Perfect Walls. Master Rolling Interior Walls.

this is part two of how to get the perfect finish on your interior walls today I'm rolling walls and I'm going to give you some tips and tricks of how you can get the perfect and amazing finish but you have to box your paints mix your paints marry your paints whatever you want to call it it's taking all your paint so that you're going to be using for this project pour them into one bucket because Within These paints you could have a tent machine that didn't dispense enough tens you could have something an issue with one of the products a lot numbers one of the products that could be a different and if you don't box them you're running down the line you run it and you just have a half a gallon and you go back to do touch-ups on one of the walls down where you started and there was an inconsistency with that paint you can have touch-up problems you're gonna have all kinds of problems this is an absolute essential what you want to do is box your pants so I'm going to be mixing all these paints together one of the nice things about Veronica see is they on how these pore spouts you can just pour the paint out now I can see on top of this paint this is a really dark color right here this is another absolutely essential when it comes to getting you know the perfect finish on your walls I got tent sitting on the top of the paint because the paint's been sitting here for a while and um dark colors like this the tents begin to float to the top and it's what we call tip float so we got tent float right here happens really bad with some paints I'm good paints it doesn't happen nearly as bad but I see that so what I notice is I need to shake up my pain so not only do you need to box them but you need to shake or mix your paints right before you um do the boxing gotta say so now I'm getting ready to box my pants these pour spouts of that bear has come up with I've never seen them before from any paints before on any other manufacturers but they are pretty dang cool and they're reusable so now I'm going to begin unboxing my paints do it over your drop cloth I've got three gallons here in the Box let's box these paints they're gonna be in this bucket I'm going to be pouring in my cutting bucket and my roller pan the paint that I'm using uh this bare product I just recently started using it it um just to test it out and stuff I haven't used it um but a couple times I really like the product it dries really really fast so dries really fast so what I was trying to get to is you want to cover the top of your pain so it doesn't skim over so once you box them you want to get a five gallon stir stick Stir It Up and then the way you go what I like to do is instead of letting my cans set here I'm gonna put my Lids back on and I'm gonna throw these pour spouts into a bucket of water all right now I'm getting ready to roll my walls I filled my pan got my bucket filled uh my five gallon bucket of my box paint sitting here this is something very important one of the things you always want to do as a painter is cover your buckets whether you're inside or outside there's a lot of different ways to cover your buckets one of my favorite is just using a cup lid like this this is a cut lid that we would use if you're um you want to cover your bucket and you're running in an air sprayer another one is a roast beanie which I'm a big fan of broccolini they're reusable is this gonna go on the bucket I like to push it down then I'll get rid of some of the air it kind of creates a cone any condensation and it's sitting outside the condensation is going to build up on the baggie it's gonna drip to the end and drip down into the paint kind of create some water over the top so it won't film over the brush reading there's another little device that goes over a bucket it's a cardboard device right here called the paint saver lid goes on your bucket just like this stays on the bucket just like that um it does have a pop out for a roller right here if you want to pop it out just get your roller can stick out of it has a out there that isn't knocked out so easy but just ends up being kind of like that knockout this is kind of the same is you know the cut lid it is a piece of um cardboard so I'm not a fan of it as much as because it's so breathable versus the plastic or the plastic lid right there uh they I don't I don't think they're really reusable these are reusable multiple multiple times this thing is probably going to be trash at the end of the day not as much of a fan of that but it is another option out there it's a pig saver lid all right now I'm going to begin rolling the walls I'm going to give you some tips and tricks how to get the perfect finish on your walls especially when using darker colors the darker colors the harder it is to get a perfect finish the scenario I'm going to be working with today is kind of unusual so the sequence of how you do things is a little bit different but still the application of the paint is going to be the same the baseboards are going to be the same colors of the walls so I don't have to do any type of cutting into the baseboards and coffee my day the ceilings are going to be the same color as a wall laws so I'm like I'm cutting my edges first one thing um why I do like using the product I'm using today with this really dark blue color and I think this is going to go with any dark colors you're going to be using I've never used a paint before that was a true one coat paint like this paint before so this is a one copay so the process is going to be I'm going to do my cut ends first and then I'm going to roll and one of the things when it comes to getting the perfect finish you have to always be working with a wet Edge and I'll talk about that and show that as we go along a wet Edge is absolutely essential to not getting lines haloing or lot worms so I'm going to begin Now by doing my cut ends and I'm filling in my edges first so the first thing I do will begin just filling in these Corners right here this is going to be using a brush because my roller cannot fill this in unless I use others of a wool or call them Corner roller which would actually do this without having to use their brush today I'm going to be using a different roller and I'll talk about that roller and why I'm using it not working down here with my baseboards I'm going to be brushing my baseboards I've got froth tape down here so I don't have to worry about my pay actually bleeding onto my floor and someone began just brushing the paint I'm going to just brush it horizontal and not vertical I want to just get nice brush Strokes on this trim the you can see how well this paint covers being a one co-paying of this white this dark collarbone right over this white and once again this is kind of a very unique situation where Hustler wanted the trim same color as the walls same Sheen in this movie room being a matte finish it's going to look absolutely amazing with this color I want to take it above my trim because I want my third brushed I don't want stipple with a roller so part of getting the perfect finish on these walls is not trying to work too much and get too ahead of you so Billy fan and this is I'm working one hole at a time because I want to keep a wet Edge so here we go we're gonna get this cornered on the sequence you know I'm doing this video to kind of do um teach you how to get a perfect finish if I was doing this whole room of sequence I'd probably do the ceilings first and then I would do the walls that way if you had any drips while you're doing your ceilings that drip down your wall it wouldn't be an issue because you're still going to paint your walls but now I've got this got this wall done all my cut ends are still wet my edges right here down at the bottom the top and That's essential to have a wet Edge in order to not get haloing or um haloid is what we or hat batting what we would call so I'm going to take it all the way to the top but I just hang my brush my bucket so it's essential you know not to stop and take a lunch break now but to get on with the painting process [Music] so now I'm gonna start from left start rolling and there's a lot of different ways you can apply your pain some people like to get it on in a V shape and then begin spreading it out I have the method I've used that's worked for me for years I put it straight in the middle I overlap keeping a wet Edge just like this and I'm going to begin spreading my paint out from the top the bottom after I get it get it in the middle first they get it on this wall get down to the bottom so there we got a pretty heavy texture on this wall so I do need to press pretty hard it's essential to getting the perfect finish to constantly load your roller keep this thing soaking wet because you want to keep your walls saturated while you're rolling if your roller starts to dry out or lose paint in it you're not going to have a wet Edge so I typically do three three laps so I did three laps overlapping keeping a wet Edge overlapping about three or four inches now I'm going to go back and lay it out I'm gonna wet my roller I'm gonna lay out from top to bottom top bottom I'm going to overlap it three inches top the bottom or last three inches top to bottom now I'm going to begin my next three laps this is where it's essential keeping a work Edge or a wet Edge and working fast so I can get down to here where that's still wet and not dry put in the middle begin rolling it out [Music] as you guys see there's a lot of different methods a lot of different professionals have different ways of playing paint there's no wrong way no right way this is just the way that's worked for me it's all overlapping three inches fill it in you can see I'm trying to work pretty fast and efficient that way my paint don't dry my Roller's still wet so I don't have to necessarily fill it back in go back until my last laps were top to bottom and I definitely like laying out from top to bottom versus bottomed up if you're a bottom up you're going to get more paint whipping off your roller and have splatters no matter how you lay it off to getting the perfect finish you have to lay it off at the same time every single time if you lay out going up one way and you lay out going down the other way it's actually going to change the color of your paint because it lays the the pink flakes out a little bit different every single time so if you want that perfect finish you can't just roll your wall get it all filled in like this and think that that's done because the paint being laid out in all different directions is going to be a different color it's going to show lap marks it's going to show flashing everything on that wall so I'm gonna get it on let's get it down all the way to the bottom make sure you go all the way to the tops and you don't have any touch-ups now if you if your roller is not absolutely saturated see if I can give you an idea what happens when your roller is not full of paint so I can just be stretching out my paint really far like this and I can start to hear it piss really loud as it starts to hit louder and louder it's gonna actually start pulling paint off the wall it doesn't start stippling your wall really bad you're not going to get good coverage it needs to be a nice sloppy wet sound you can hear it's like not hissing very loud at all it's all full of paint it's still working officially if I want to go to launch I want to go to lunch after I finish a wall I'm typically going to go to lunch after I finish the room but that can't always be the case if you're not as fast as efficient if you're new at this but it's okay one ball at a time don't want to be kicking over any buckets move things out of your way so when you can be fast and efficient to keep your pan close to you this is another thing like um some painters you know are very particular about the direction of the roller it's a very critical like I'm rolling this direction it could work the roller off you know your um off your frame if you're using a really cheap frame I'll use a blue tiger frame and a blue tiger frame is um has a locking device and keeps it locked on so it's best if you flip your roller over use it this direction it's going to keep it on I still like the feel of it that way but whatever Direction you'd use it always keep in the same direction because tell you if you flip it over and you're changing it same thing it can lay out the tint differently and you can get laptops on your wall I like the feel of it pointing that direction lay it out working quick I'm going to tell you here's another absolutely essential part of the painting process and getting a perfect finish is what roller you use uh using a good quality paint I I recommend the top end paint what I'm using today is a great paint um whatever you choose it needs to be a high-end paint and preferably a one copay it truly is a one copay but the roller itself I'm using an ultra micro roller right here this is a premier roller made in the USA for laying out on paint like this dark colors laying out matte finishes it's the best roller that I've tested and use it's the ultra micro from Premiere so just to give you an idea here's the roller I'm using today this is the ultra micro that's the Spanish side so you can read it ultra micro right there it's a microfiber roller says it's got exclusive Viper fuse in technology I'm not sure what that means but it's high capacity with smooth consistent release sulfur resistant core all interior executor paint stains and Coatings smooth and semi-smooth finishes so you don't want to use cheap rollers I'm telling you right now you'll put a LIDS on your walls you have to sand them out this is going to cause more frustration that it's worth and if you're after that amazing looking finish like I'm after this movie room use quality rollers quality frame quality extension Paul I'm using an extension pole you can see so you've got to be fast you can't afford to be climbing up and down ladders it's going to take me time by the time I get to that end my paint's going to be dry and I'm going to get a lap Mark or a Halo right there so I'm using an extension pole this is just a little um two to four foot extension pole perfect for this room use a longer one and it's going to be too heavy for you can see that paint this dark color gold over this white paint This truly is a one coat paint [Music] now I'm going to get to this end this is the one time when I'm gonna flip my roller because my frame is getting in the way and it'll hit the wall so I'll load this thing up really good another tip if you have a problem dripping your paints just spin your roller where you're going and you won't drip your pain I want to get it straight up to the edge make sure all that texture is filled in flip back over lay out my paint [Music] last flip lay it out and there's your wall not going to begin working down the next wall and the next one I'm just going to go from wall to wall working one wall at a time foreign [Music] [Applause]