What To Paint First With A Paint Sprayer. Painting Steps With A Sprayer. Painting Tips.

This is Chris, the Idaho Painter. This is the second part of a multi-part series I have on what you should actually paint first. And in this video, we're going to be talking about what you should paint first if you have access to an airless paint sprayer. So, now to start off, we've got an access to an airless paint sprayer. So, there's a lot of different scenarios inside this room you're going to be painting. If you have access to an airless paint sprayer, what you can actually paint with a sprayer or paint with a roller. So, we've got a room and we're going to be painting the trim, walls, and the ceilings. And we always paint the trim with an air sprayer cuz we always want it to look very professional and not have any brush strokes or what we call roping on the trim. Or if you're using a roller and a nap, it's going to stipple the trim. We always like our trim to look like it was originally put up. And here in Idaho, where we're actually painting, all the trim, new construction is always sprayed. So, it's always going to give you the finest finish. So, we always spray our trim. If the walls are the same colors as the ceilings, we're typically going to paint the walls and the ceilings in a satin sheen. And for speed and ease, we're actually going to spray the walls and the ceilings the one color, one sheen. If your walls are a different color than your ceilings, then we have a different situation and we're going to probably roll the walls and spray the ceilings. We do have one scenario. If you're going to be painting the trim, the walls, and the ceilings, and they're going to all be different colors or the ceiling is going to be flat, then we're actually going to spray our ceilings with our airless sprayer. And what we're actually going to do, we'll actually spray the the ceilings first before we actually spray the trim. And the reason why we do that, we'll spray this cuz there's going to be a lot of dust and that's going to fall out from the ceilings. and we'll just spray our ceilings, get them all done, then we'll just dust off our trim and then spray our trim. That way we don't have to mask our trim off to spray the ceilings if we done it did it the reverse. So, if the ceilings are going to be sprayed and they're going to be sprayed in splat and in flat, then we'll actually spray those first. So this scenario is we got our trim. It's going to be painted a semi- gloss. Then we got our walls which is a satin sheen typically. And then we got our ceiling which is going to be a different color, different sheen that's flat. So in that case scenario, we're going to spray walk in spray the ceilings flat, carry it down onto our walls about, you know, an inch or two inches and then we're going to go back dust off our trim and then spray our trim right away. And then once those two are dry, we can mask off our trim. And we always like to roll our walls in this scenario because rolling the walls is always going to look nicer than if you actually spray the walls. Spraying the walls will leave a lot of times lap marks and um spray marks when you're actually spraying. It's really really difficult to get your walls looking as even uh across the walls without any lap marks or flashing on the walls versus if you roll them. So, we'll talk about this scenario one more time. This is a scenario if you're painting the trim walls and the ceilings and you're painting them three colors or multiple sheen. You're going to walk in, spray the ceilings flat or your different color. Then you're going to dust off your trim, spray your trim, and then you're going to go back, mask off your trim, and roll your walls. Here's one thing to keep in mind. When you've got a scenario where you're doing the walls and ceilings a different color and you've already or sheen and you've already actually sprayed your trim, you could actually spray your trim. When it dries, mask off your trim and then go back and roll your walls and then when your walls dry, mask and actually spray the ceilings last. But if you do it that way, then you're going to have to drop plastic from your walls all the way down to the floor, and you'll get it about 4 in from the ceiling. Just tack it all up. Then you'll go back with 9in paper and tape and mask over that and tack your paper to your plastic. And then you can actually spray your ceilings. But we found that this to use more materials when it comes to masking materials and just to be a little more bit more time consuming for us than than actually doing it the opposite. Here's one more scenario that you'll have with a sprayer possibly and that's painting your trim, walls, and ceilings all one color. And we'll see this in rentals a lot. And if they're all going to be one color, we'll typically use a satin sheen for ease and for speed. And we're going to walk in, just mask off our floors. We're going to spray our ceilings, walls, and trim. All one color, all one sheen. And that's a really simple scenario and a fast process to do. When it comes to the spray process, spraying the trim is what we always do. I never ever brush my trim or roll my trim. So, it's always sprayed. When it comes to spraying ceilings, ceilings are probably the most difficult thing thing to do with an airless sprayer. And trying to spray a ceiling and not get lap marks. If you're using any type of sheen other than the flat sheen is extremely extremely difficult. So, if your ceilings are a satin sheen or anything other than flat, you really should actually roll them. But, we like doing our ceilings flat cuz we like the look of it. And you can actually spray them if you're using a good product that is sprayable. We use a product from Sher Williams called Eminence and we've had very good success with it actually spraying ceilings with it. So, but if you're actually doing your walls and ceilings the same sheen like satin, you're probably going to have to roll them if you want them to look nice. I will actually get questions occasionally, how fast can you actually mask over your paint or your trim after you've sprayed it? And from our experience, the products that we use the the trim once we sprayed our trim, if you have ideal conditions where it's at 70° or above in the house, we typically jack the temperature up to about 80° when we're spraying our trim. But once our trim is sprayed, typically in about 4 hours later, the tape that we use, we can actually go back and tape over that trim and to uh begin rolling our walls. And that's the tape we use. We use a product from 3M called 2020 and it can be masked over the trim typically in about 4 hours and it won't actually pull off the paint if your trim is prepped properly. If you do have any questions on how to actually operate an airless sprayer or how to mass that room, get it ready to spray, I do have videos on all these topics, so you can check out those videos and check out my channel after you're done watching this video. And if you want to purchase my shirts or hats, you can click on the Cafe Press button right over here. Or if you want to purchase any of my tools or accessories, you can go to my Amazon store. Click on the button right here, and that'll take you to my Amazon store. And thank you very much for supporting my channel and my videos.