Spraying Ceilings with an Airless sprayer. Painting Ceilings.

This is Chris from B&J Painting. In this video, we're going to show you how to spray ceilings. We've got some ceilings in the house right here that um has got crown molding on the house. And so, we're going to be spraying the ceilings with a Graco 695. I've got a gun with a 515 uh 517 tip on it and an extension that's approximately 2 ft long. And we're using an extension that I can reach um comfortably about a foot from the ceiling. And the ceilings are a dark color and we're actually going to a light color. So, we're going to have to definitely spray two coats on the ceilings. We're going to be spraying one coat this way and what we call a fog coat. It's going to be a light coat. We're not trying to get it all covered 100%, but just getting a a light coat on it that actually dried quickly so we can go back over and do a second coat. And so we've masked the ceiling with uh 9 in uh 2020 1 in tape and u uh 1 in 2020 3M tape. And then we've massed with 9 in paper. The walls are going to be painted next, but we're spraying the ceilings first. So we're not concerned about fallout, anything coming onto the ceiling itself. And um I've got my pressure turned down fairly low so we don't have to worry about overspray um any wet paint falling down onto the floor. The carpets are going to be replaced. So, we don't have to worry about the carpet. So, you're not going to see any drop loss down. So, That's how I'm going to be spraying the ceiling. And I don't want to release my trigger and um do any start and stops in the middle of the ceiling. You want to go from end to end. Um otherwise if you start release the trigger and go back and forth without walking the distance from end to end, you'll get what we call holidays and that's heavy spots in the ceiling and you'll be able to see those holidays. So we're going to spray it from end to end. You want to make sure you have a good walking path so you can walk from end to end so you don't have to start to stop in the middle of the ceiling. When you get to the some type of light fixtures, you just work on the light fixture. [snorts] Now I [snorts] can continue walking once again. And then once this dries, then we're going to actually do the opposite direction. And before it actually um the paint dries after the second coat, we'll be pulling off the masking. So, we're in um another room in the house. This is This room's already dry. We're going to be putting on the final coat in this room. And um the room the entrance to the room is right here. And I want my uh spray pattern actually be perpendicular to the entrance of the room. So, I'm actually going to be walking this way. When you're spraying your ceilings, make sure your floor is um there's nothing in your way so you can walk back and forth because you don't want stop and stop marks stop start and stop marks in your ceiling cuz they're what we call holidays and you'll be able to eventually see them. They'll be a little bit shinier than the rest of the ceiling. So, you want to be able to walk from end to end when you're actually spraying the ceilings. And um we'll show you what that looks like on this final coat right here. The final coat is going to be a lot slower than the uh initial fog coat and it's going to be overlap 50%.