Laying Off for a Smooth Finish

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,