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Scenario 3: Trim, Walls & Ceilings All Different Colors/Sheens

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For a room where the trim, walls, and ceilings will all be different colors or have different sheens (e.g., semi-gloss trim, satin walls, flat ceilings), follow this specific order to maximize efficiency and quality. First, spray the ceilings with an airless paint sprayer, allowing about an inch or two of overspray to fall onto the top part of the walls. After the ceiling paint has dried, thoroughly dust off the trim to remove any settled overspray. Next, spray the trim. Once the trim is dry, mask off the painted trim to protect it. Finally, roll the walls. This method is designed to prevent lap marks and flashing on the walls, which are common issues when walls are sprayed.

Goal: Efficiently paint trim, walls, and ceilings, each with distinct colors or sheens, to achieve high-quality results.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Paint SprayerApplying paint to ceilings and trim
  • Masking TapeMasking off trim before rolling walls
  • Paint RollerApplying paint to walls
  • Flat Ceiling Paint Sherwin WilliamsPainting ceilings
  • Satin Wall PaintPainting walls
  • Semi-Gloss Trim PaintPainting trim

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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,

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