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Painting with Different Colors/Sheens and Flat Ceilings

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In a scenario where the trim, walls, and ceilings will all be different colors or sheens (for example, semi-gloss trim, satin walls, and flat ceilings), the strategy changes. Begin by spraying the ceilings with flat paint, allowing for some overspray onto the walls and trim. Once the ceiling is done, dust off any overspray from the trim. Next, spray the trim. After the trim is dry, mask it off carefully. Finally, roll the walls. Rolling the walls is preferred over spraying them in this scenario to avoid lap marks and flashing, which are common when spraying walls with different sheens.

Goal: Optimal sequence for painting trim, walls, and flat ceilings with different colors/sheens

Tools and materials

  • Airless Paint Sprayer — Applying paint to ceilings and trim
  • Dust Cloth — Wiping off overspray from trim
  • Masking Tape — Masking off trim before rolling walls
  • Paint Roller — Applying paint to walls
  • Flat Paint — Painting ceilings
  • Satin Paint — Painting walls
  • Semi-Gloss Paint — Painting trim

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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

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