Tips Painting A Room In 1 Hour. DIY How To Paint Walls Fast.
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This project provides a comprehensive guide to efficiently paint a room like a professional, focusing on meticulous preparation, quick drying skim coats, and effective masking and de-masking techniques. It covers protecting surfaces, preparing paint, applying cut-ins and main coats, addressing imperfections, and ensuring a clean finish.
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(3,882 characters)this is Chris the Idaho painter bringing you another how-to video to make your job go a little easier smoother and like a professional did it and thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our Channel and give us a like and don't forget to click that little share button and send us out to all your friends be painting this room different color we've actually installed 9in paper 1in tape along the baseboards to help keep anything off the carpet we're laying out some drop clo and we've used duster brushes just old paint brushes to actually dust off the tops of the baseboard and the tops of the door jams before we start running our 1in tape before painting I I um actually um now installing our 1in tape along the tops of the baseboards we got the old color red on the top of the baseboard you we want to leave that exposed so our new color will cover getting our paint set up here we got two gallons of paint this room we've boxed both gallons of paint into a five make sure the color is consistent it's a dark green color we going over this dark brown and red the carpets are going to be replaced in this room but we got drop cloth in 9 in paper just down just in case customer eventually in a week decided they weren't going to replace the carpets we're protecting it anyways and now everything's taped off masked ready to go we're going to start our ceiling cut ends first and get the first coat a light skim coat on the walls that will dry quickly be rolling it it's a small room so I'll be rolling it with a 9in nap and extension pole we also like to run a strip of 9 9 in paper and tape across the window sills so if there's any drips or splatters doesn't land on the window sill we're doing our high cut ends first otherwise if you roll the walls first and you're leaning your ladder on your painted wall so get your high cut ends done first with a ladder and then start rolling your first coat getting set up to roll our first coat now we're going to do all of our cuttings around our door jams and windows prior to our first and second coat on the walls too that way you don't get any haloing around your door jams Windows starting to install our first skim coat on the walls too doing our first skim coat not worried about 100% coverage you want to do a very light coat that'll dry quickly we're painting just one room today in this house so you want it to be thin and dry very fast so you can get your second coat on Within in about 30 minutes we're turn we turn the heat up to about 70° to get it to dry faster also we've used Crawford's interior spackle for any holes in the walls we spackled them first and then while rolling there's a possibility you'll see doing your first skim coat you may see some holes and then you'll just spackle those holes too you want to make sure any spackling is done prior to your first skim coat or after your second skim coat you do not want to have to spackle anything on your final coat cuz it could show a touchup Mark or flashing now I've got all of our cuttings done the first coat is dry about 30 minutes later and we're rolling our second coat and once the second coat is rolled we're going to pull off all of our masking and while doing our cutting c ends we actually used cocking the tape and then did our cut ends just about got this room completed got two coats it's tooken approximately about 1 hour to get this entire room completed cut ends two coats on the walls and all cleaned up just making our final touchup kit leave to the customer and here where we're rolling this wall our cut ends were moving quick enough that our cut ends aren't drying so we could pull off our tape and masking after the second coat is it's about a 14 by 13 Ved ceiling room completed in 1 hour this is Chris the Idaho painter thanks for watching our videos and don't forget to subscribe to our Channel and like us and share
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