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Less Efficient Alternative: Spray Trim First

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An alternative, though less efficient, sequence is to spray the trim first. After the trim paint is dry, mask it off completely. Then, roll the walls. Once the walls are dry, mask them off, and finally spray the ceilings. This method requires significantly more masking materials and is more time-consuming due to the multiple masking and drying stages, potentially also involving more detailed masking at the wall-ceiling junction to prevent overspray on the freshly rolled walls.

Goal: Understand and avoid less efficient painting order that uses more masking materials and time.

Tools and materials

  • 9-inch Masking Paper — Protecting the top portion of walls when spraying ceilings
  • Airless Paint Sprayer — Applying paint to trim and ceilings
  • Masking Tape 3M — Masking trim and then walls
  • Paint Roller — Applying paint to walls
  • Plastic Drop Sheet — Protecting walls and floors from overspray
  • Paint — Painting various surfaces

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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

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