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Scenario 1: Painting a Vacant House with Multiple Wall Colors

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What Should You Paint First? DIY Painting Ceiling, Walls, Or Trim?

What happens here

In a vacant house with no belongings and multiple wall colors (e.g., seven different colors), the most efficient painting order is to spray the ceilings first, then spray the trim, and finally roll the walls. For ceilings, a flat paint like Sherwin-Williams Eminence is recommended to hide imperfections, prevent flashing, and avoid lap marks. Since ceiling spraying generates significant 'downfall dust,' spraying trim *after* ceilings prevents contamination. Cardboard shields with a shield holder can be used to protect freshly sprayed ceilings while spraying trim, or the ceilings can be masked. Due to the numerous color changes on the walls, rolling and brush cutting are more efficient than spraying them.

Goal: Efficiently paint ceilings, trim, and multi-colored walls in a vacant property.

Tools and materials

  • BrushCutting in walls
  • Cardboard shieldsProtecting ceilings during trim spraying
  • RollerApplying paint to walls
  • Shield holderHolding cardboard shields
  • SprayerApplying paint to ceilings and trim
  • Masking paperMasking ceilings when spraying trim
  • PaintWall and trim paint

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silica dust created by the sprayers. And if we're ever dealing with trim inside of a home and we're going to actually paint the trim and the woodwork and it's painted any doors, we always spray the trim on an interior of a home. We only spray it because that way it's going to look more professional. It's not going to leave brush strokes or roping. And so here at BNK Painting, we never actually brush trim. We always spray it. So whether the customer lives in the the home or not, we always spray. In this case, the customer is not living in here. Everything's actually been moved out into storage facilities by a disaster maintenance company. And so, there's nothing inside the home that we need to worry about dust, too. If there's personal belongings inside the house, if there's beds, furniture, stuff like that, you always got to consider the silica dust created by the spraying of either your walls, ceilings, or trim. And you got to protect those items. And sometimes that can be more cumbersome than actually just rolling. But this is going to be a full interior repaint. Nobody's living in it and there's no belongings in the house. So, we're going to try to spray as much as we can to make the job go a lot faster. And in this job, there was multiple colors in the house and that's another determining factor whether you're going to roll or spray the walls. All the ceilings are a different color than the walls. So, we got to take that in consideration, too. So, in this scenario, nobody's living in the house. There's no furniture, no personal belongings. We have at least seven colors on the walls throughout the house. So, it's not going to be efficient or faster to actually spray the walls. So, we're going to roll the walls. The trim, we always spray the trim. We never roll the trim. And now, the ceilings are all a different color than all the walls in the house throughout. So, we're going to want to spray the ceilings. And we only use a flat on our ceilings because if the walls in ceilings are a different color and you actually spray like a satin on the walls, then you could get actually flashing on the walls. We use a product from Sher Williams called Eminence and it's flat and when you actually spray the the ceilings, it hides imperfections better, doesn't show flashing, and it doesn't show lap marks. So, in this house, we started off, we decided because of all the multiple walls, multiple color colors, it was going to be faster to roll the walls. So, we started…

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