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Apply First Coat of Paint

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Painting Walls LIke a Professional Painter: Start to Finish

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What happens here

Load the roller with paint, ensuring it's thoroughly saturated but not dripping. Attach the roller to an extension pole (2-4 feet or 4-8 feet, depending on ceiling height) for better reach and efficiency. Begin applying the first coat of paint to the walls. Distribute the paint evenly by moving the roller from top to bottom, covering approximately a one-roller-width section at a time. Overlap each pass by about 50%. The first coat should be thin to dry quickly.

Goal: Apply an even first coat of paint to the walls.

Tools and materials

  • Extension Pole — Extending reach for rolling, improving efficiency
  • Gloves — Protecting hands from paint
  • Paint Roller Tray — Holding paint for the roller
  • White Interior Paint — The main paint for the walls

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top of the baseboards so I'm going to get my roller loaded up and one of the mistakes I see a lot of do-it-yourselfers you'll do is they get their roller loaded up they start rolling with it and they try to stretch their paint out too far without loading up the roller you want to just load up your roller constantly keep applying a lot of paint to the wall one of the things that you want to do also is have an extension pole I always use either a two to four extension pole or a 4 to 8T extension pole you're going to be a lot faster more efficient using an extension pull so we always say you want to work smarter not harder so I'm going to just start from right to left work my way down this wall rolling the roller is not 100% loaded up yet it's going to take just a little bit so I'm just going to keep loading this thing up till it gets totally 100% loaded now I'm going to be doing two coats to Al most colors I it's really rare that you'll ever paint and only have to paint one coat I'm not going to be doing my cut ends until my first coat dries I'll do my first coat do my cut ends and then do my second coat so just a little you know Pro tip definitely you can see I'm definitely going to be doing two coats so I don't want to make my first coat too heavy cuz I want it to dry really fast I just noticed that

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