Scenario 4: Painting an Occupied House with Walls and/or Ceilings (No Trim)

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

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For an occupied house where only walls and/or ceilings are being painted (and no trim work is required), always opt for rolling rather than spraying. This minimizes the creation of silica dust and reduces liability risks for the painting company. If ceilings are a different color from the walls, roll the ceilings first, bringing the ceiling color down onto the top of the wall by approximately half an inch. The flat paint (e.g., Sherwin-Williams Eminence) used for ceilings dries quickly (around two hours). Once the ceiling paint is dry, you can then begin cutting in and rolling the walls. This method simplifies cutting in because you are looking down onto the ceiling paint line, which is easier than trying to cut upwards precisely. If both walls and ceilings are the same color, simply tape around fixtures and use drop cloths to protect the floor and furniture before rolling all surfaces.

Goal: Safely and efficiently roll paint onto walls and ceilings in an occupied house without trim work.

Tools and materials

Brush — Cutting in edges
Roller — Applying paint to walls and ceilings
Drop cloths — Protecting floors and furniture
Masking tape — Masking around fixtures if walls and ceilings are the same color
Paint — Wall and ceiling paint

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scenario we'll discuss and that's in the structure itself, the home, if we're not spraying any trim work or any woodwork and we're just doing walls and ceilings or just walls, we never actually break out a sprayer because we don't want to create any dust and we don't want to create liability for our company. So, we're going to roll we're going to roll everything. And so if um the the trim's not is not being painted, what we like to do is we actually roll our ceilings first. We always roll our ceilings first. You'll roll your ceilings and bring it down onto your wall about just about a half inch. And the product we use from Sher Williams is a flat paint called Eminence. That stuff dries extremely fast and within about two hours you can go begin doing your walls and cutting in your ceilings. And we always do the ceilings first and drop it down onto the wall because that way now you're cutting in looking up. If you do your walls first and then your ceilings, now you've actually got to do your cutins looking up at the ceiling in working this way. And it's a lot harder to do your cutins. A lot harder to get a straight line if you do your ceilings last if you're rolling your walls and your ceilings. Now, if the ceilings and walls are all one color, then we just run one inch tape around everything, put our drop boss down, and roll it all. But if we're ceilings are different color than our walls, we always do our ceilings first, bring it down, and then do our walls. Our cutins are much faster and much easier. This is Chris, the

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