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Avoid Back-Rolling PVA Primer to Prevent Stippling

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Should You Back Roll After Spraying? Pro Painter Tips You Need to Know!

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coat. It's not designed to back roll. So what would happen if you backrol this wall you know because your thought process hey I need to you know enhance penetration or you know make touchups for the homeowner or for me as this you know house gets you know progresses flooring gets installed cabinets gets installed people nicking and dinging the walls if I was to take and spray this and back roll it the the primer is not designed to be back rolled and so it's going to what we call stipple really bad so it's going to take a smooth finish and now add stippling to it. And that in itself is going to probably for you know in our area a lot the homeowners, the builders, they're not going to like it cuz they're expecting a smooth Sun Valley texture or skip tri finish. And back rolling the primer isn't beneficial to you at all either because you're going to be top coating over that primer. When you're spraying your top coat, you're going to be atomizing the paint, which actually changes the sheen and changes the color, you know, slightly through the atomization and the crushing of the paint going through the airless tip. And so that in itself means that you um you're still going to have touch-up problems. So if you were actually going to back roll anything, you would spray your PVA primer on, which is designed to be sprayed and not back rolled. Then you would spray and back roll your top coat on there that's going over the top of your primer. And um that way, you know, if you were to get a nick in the middle of this wall right here and you touched it up with a brush, it's not a sprayed on finish. And so it's more likely going to match and

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