ROLLING WALLS FAST. How to paint a room in 1 hour. Fast painting hacks. DIY house painting.

This is Chris, the Idaho painter. In this video, we're going to show you how we go about rolling walls fast with a 18-in roller. So, stay tuned for this video. So, we're down here working on this room. We're actually painting all these walls in this room with this 18-in roller, and we're painting them really fast. And one of the things before you get started painting, you always want to set drop cloth down. We got drop cloth down here. We've got a 9-in paper with 1in tape run around all the baseboards. And now we're ready to roll. Just got to get this thing the floor is protected cuz you don't want to spill anything on the floors. Got our 18-in pan right here or bucket. And this is actually a 5gallon bucket right here that'll hold 5 gallons of paint. We typically fill it up about, you know, a little less than half full. start rolling out of it. This is our extension pole that I'm actually using. And the ceilings are about eight feet high. So, you just want an extension pole that's not too long that'll reach up there comfortably at 8 ft. So, you don't have to do a lot of bending or reaching. And got our uh 3/8 in roller right on here. And um or it's a 18-in roller with a 3/8 inch nap on it. And now we're just going to begin the rolling process. I'm going to show you how we go about rolling these walls fast. You just start up just by loading up your roller. And if you haven't got it all loaded up, you just want to get it all loaded up with paint and then begin the rolling process. And now I'll show you how I actually roll these walls. So to roll a wall with an 18-in roller, it's a little bit different than using a 9-in roller. And this also is a wall. You can see this blue. It's going to take at least two coats of paint. And if you're going to be two coating a wall, it's going to be a little bit different process on your first coat than it is on the second coat. The first coat's basically going to be a skim coat that you want to be thin, but it's going to dry really fast. And I think I can, if I get it on properly, I'll be able to cover it on the second coat with this color that we're using. This is a pretty light white color, but two coats will do it. So, my first coat is going to be a skim coat that I want to dry really fast. If you put it on too heavy, then you're going to have to wait too long before you can do your second coat. And I'm typically when I'm rolling when I'm rolling a wall with that 18-in roller, I get my roller loaded up and then I'm going to set it in the middle of the wall and I'm going to roll up and then down. And that's going to be my first stroke right there. So, the proc is going to be up, down, and then right back up again and down. And then I'll look at it right there. And it's laid out nice and thin, even. There's no heavy spots. Now I'll load up my roller. Once again, you can see how much you can actually cover with an 18in roller with just a couple swipes of the roller. So I'm going to load it up. Get a good loaded up with paint again. And then put it set right in the middle. Up, down, up, down. And I'll look at it. If there's, you know, maybe a heavy spot right there, I'll just lay that heavy spot out. You see how much surface area I've covered now already with just loading up the nap twice. So, I'm going to load up my roller once again. Once again, on the the first coat, laying it out, I'm not really concerned about doing a proper layout. What I'm concerned about is just getting a thin skim coat on these walls that will actually dry really fast. On my second coat, that's when I'm actually going to be concerned about laying it out from either, you know, bottom to top or top to bottom when I put the paint onto the wall. Like I'm going to do one more. I'm going to lay it right in the middle up. So, you can either, you know, start going put it right in the middle wall. You can either go down or you can go up. It really doesn't really matter. put at the wall. Go down, up, and then just like that. One more time on this side. So, I'm going to load up the roller. Going to put it right in the middle of the wall. It's going to go up, down, up. And I can see right there, I got just a nice thin skim coat on there. And that will actually dry. We actually to paint walls fast and do high production painting. You want a lot of heat and not a whole lot of humidity. So, we always crank the temperature up if we're in a residential home home. Crank it up to 75 80°, open up the windows slightly, so it'll blow air out and get rid of humidity out of the room. And this will actually, this skim coat will probably dry within 15 to 30 minutes if you've got the temperature up high enough and the humidity is low enough. Another just quick simple tip too, when you're loading up your roller, you know, when I load it up, instead of just carrying it straight to where you're going to go, actually do your rolling, it's a good idea to just twist it. It's a little bit harder with an 18-in roller, but if you just turn it to the side, it'll keep it from dripping. So, I typically load up my roller and then I'll turn it to the side and then take it to where I'm going. Once again, just going to load it up. You turn it. And now I'll move it to where I'm going. So, it's been a half hour. Now, we're starting this wall. Approximately a half hour. Going to roll a second coat on this wall. The paint's all dry. Uh, prior to rolling the wall, we're doing the ceiling cut ends. And then we cut in the bottom. Uh, did the cocking and tape. And now we roll the final coat on here. I'm going to show you what it looks like to actually roll out and lay that final coat. So, doing the final layout on this thing, the process a little bit different. I'm not doing just a skim coat, but I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to load up my roller. So, just load it up in my pan, and then I'm going to put it in the middle of the wall. And you can either go up or down, whatever is more comfortable for you. Sometimes I think uh I like going down a little bit better, but it doesn't really matter. Just set it in the middle of the wall. And typically you're going to start from either corner of the wall and you work your way to the opposite side. But for video purposes, I'm just in the middle of the wall right here. But just going to put it down. I'm just going to roll it down, up, and then back down again. And then I'm going to load up my roller again. Just load it up with a lot of paint. On your final coat, you want this to be pretty heavy. I'm going to overlap it about quarter. Go down, up, and then down again. And now I'm just going to lay this out. I always lay it out from top to bottom, just like that. And that's how you actually lay it out. In doing these light colors, the layout is not nearly as critical as doing a layout on dark colors. That's what's really important on here. You don't really have to be that critical with it. But come back over here. I can work the opposite direction now just for camera purposes. Overlap it about 25%. Down, up, down again. I'm going to load it back up. Make sure you load it up with a lot of paint. You can turn your roller to keep it from dripping to go down up and then down again. And now I'll just lay it out. There you have it. And that's how you properly lay out the wall. Then we'll go back. There's going to be some light spots on the cut ends because these walls have to be too coated. We typically do the cut in, we try to do the cut in heavy once and then just go back and touch it up. That's typically how we do our cutins. Same with the cutins on the masking where we cough. Sometimes if it's a multi-coat wall, we'll just roll the bottom with our 4-in nap and get close to our tape. And then on our second coat coat, then we'll coaul it, do the cut in, roll the wall, pull the tape. [Music] So in this video, some of the tools and accessories we're actually doing to paint these walls fast using our 2 to 4ft extension pole. A lot of times we're using a 4 to 8t extension pole. I use a commercial grade 18in roller. We use also the worooster roller. Got an 18-in roller here. That's a 3/8 inch nap. We're using our 5gallon bucket pan right here. That's actually a worooster pan. We like the worooster pans cuz it rolls on both sides. To do our masking, we're using our hand masker with 9in paper, 1 in tape. A lot of times we're using frog tape along with coauling. Here's our bucket. We use the two gallon buckets with a onegon grid inside. cutting in with a 3-in brush, angled sash brush. Got the 4-in roller with a 3/8 inch nap on that. And we're doing our cocking with just a standard cocking gun. I like the ones with a ratchet teeth. We're using clear cocking when we're doing our cocking. Those are the tools and accessories we're using in this video. And this is what we do to do high production fast painting. All those tools and accessories, you can find them in my video description down below, or you can check out my tool store at the end of this video on my website, the idaho.com. [Music]