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Apply Paint with Roller (Wet Edge Technique)

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Painting Perfect Walls. Master Rolling Interior Walls.

What happens here

Begin rolling the main wall sections. It's recommended to start from one side of the wall (e.g., left) and work across. Load your napped roller by immersing it into the paint tray and rolling it back and forth to ensure it's fully saturated. Apply the paint to the wall using a pattern, like a 'W' or 'M' shape, and then fill in the area with consistent, overlapping vertical strokes from top to bottom. Overlap each stroke by approximately 3 to 4 inches. The key is to keep the roller soaking wet with paint and maintain a 'wet edge' across the wall. If the roller starts to dry out and makes a loud 'hissing' sound, it indicates it's pulling paint off the wall rather than applying it smoothly, which will result in poor coverage and an uneven finish.

Goal: Load the napped roller thoroughly and apply paint to the wall in overlapping sections, consistently from top to bottom, ensuring the roller remains saturated to maintain a 'wet edge'.

Tools and materials

  • Extension Pole
  • Paint Behr Dynasty

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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…

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