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RESOLVE Ceiling Painting Problems!

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any of those lap marks so what would happen if you had a scenario where you had windows in a room so I we have that scenario here in this house I believe but what would happen so again your priority is going to be the southern facing window because that's where most of the light is going to be coming in and then the second choice you're going to make after that is going to be where is the entrance to the room so one of the decisions is if you've got multiple windows you're really trying to determine where the Sun is gonna shine in through what window the most ideally yes so if you've got a really like if the house has a lot of shade on one side that window really becomes a non-factor and you don't have to think about that the reverse is going to be true so if you're in the southern hemisphere you're going to want to watch out for those northern windows instead because that's where a lot of that lights going to be coming in so sometimes your house is going to be situated not true north and so you're gonna have to play with a lot of those variables and think about where is most of the light coming in and we want to go against that yeah I know you know I there's a situation one time in my career we were spraying ceilings and and I sprayed the ceiling it had a light source coming in out of one window and the only one window and I did with my eye all the rules according to lighting sprayed the ceiling and I sprayed it four times and I sprayed it one time didn't look good spray and then I can started changing directions trying to figure out and it was just really it came down to just spraying so it wasn't necessarily lighting it was just because it was being sprayed and the lap marks were just showing and then when we turned around and rolled it after we decided we're not gonna spray it for a fifth time it looked good and so you know sometimes just spraying isn't the the way that's gonna work I think sometimes you're just gonna have to determine what's gonna work best I mean first you're gonna start off with you know your lighting and then some of its convenience and speed also how fast you need to get the ceiling done yeah so I'm you can spray it faster than you can roll it yeah you can and really when it comes down to it lap marks are just shadows that are being cast across that ceiling and so you've got to figure out if you've got lap marks what's causing those little shadows do you have fingering on the tips of your gun you don't have enough pressure or your…

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