Scenario 3: Painting a Vacant Rental/Remodel with Distinct Colors

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

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For a vacant rental or remodel property where the ceilings are a different color than the walls, and the trim is a single, consistent color, follow this sequence: First, spray all the trim using a semi-gloss latex enamel. Once the trim is dry, mask it off completely. Next, spray all the walls. After the walls have dried, mask the walls near the ceiling. This involves running 9x400 plastic sheeting from about six inches below the ceiling down to the floor, and tacking 9-inch paper with 1-inch tape around the ceiling perimeter. This masking will prevent ceiling spray from affecting the freshly painted walls. Finally, spray the ceilings. It's crucial to remove all masking while the paint is still wet to avoid pulling off dried paint.

Goal: Efficiently paint ceilings (different color), walls (different color), and trim (one color) in a vacant remodel scenario.

Tools and materials

Sprayer — Applying paint to trim, walls, and ceilings
9-inch paper — Masking walls at the ceiling line
Masking tape — Masking trim and securing paper around ceiling lines
Paint — Wall and ceiling paint
Plastic sheeting — Masking walls to the floor
Semi-gloss latex enamel paint — Trim paint

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scenarios here. So, now we have another scenario that we'll discuss with you. And if nobody lives in the house and say it's a rental, um you're spraying rentals quickly, trying to make money fast, we like to actually spray. If nobody lives in the house, uh the flooring's going to be replaced or there's no flooring in it, no carpet. This is a scenario we run into quite a bit. remodels, um, rentals, and where somebody's repainting and going to be moving in. Somebody moved out, somebody's going to be moving in, replacing carpets, and they want the ceilings a different color than the walls and the trim all one color. And in that case, there's nothing in the house. We don't need to worry about dust, silica dust, overspray. We're going to spray all of our trim. And then we're going to mask off our trim. And then we're going to spray all of our walls. And then we actually after the walls are dry, we'll mask our ceilings. We're going to run plastic. It's we call 9 by400 plastic. And we tack it about 6 in from the top of the ceiling. The plastic will drop to the floor. And then we'll run 9 in paper with 1 in tape around the ceiling. And that'll cover our ceiling and it'll stop any downfall from spraying the ceilings to drop it on their wall because you'll get dust that will fall down. So to explain that process again, if we're our ceilings are a different color than our walls and a different color than the trim and nobody lives in the house, we're going to spray it all. We're going to start by spraying our trim. We use a product of semi- gloss uh latex enamel. Spray all of our trim. Then we're going to mask off all of our trim. We're going to spray our walls. As soon as the walls are done, we pull off all the masking off the trim while it's still wet. And then we're going to mask the walls after the walls dry with 9x400 plastic. Drop it to the floor. And then cover the top, which will overlap the 9x400 plastic with your 9 in paper, 1 in tape. Then we're going to spray the ceilings. and it's before that dries, you're going to pull all the masking off right down to the floor and your job is complete. There's one more scenario we'll discuss and that's in the

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