Just contemplating…kitchen, two baths, eight doors and trim – gloss. Three bedrooms, family, dining and halls – flat. Removed wallpaper from dining and two walls…will prep and prime. Ripped out and will replace flooring in two baths, kitchen and dining. All new carpeting after paint. Color of paint will be “white” through out this rental. Here’s the kicker…acoustic texture ceiling. My thoughts…to leave ceiling as is. Question…should I spray or roll? I’ve never sprayed and this is a one man job…spray or roll? Any thoughts and feedback will be appreciated…Thanks All.
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Painting a textured ceiling is a pain, but if you've never sprayed, I would get a fairly fluffy (long napped) roller on an extension and go to it. Isn't that bad. Spraying, you'd have to mask off everything and there is a learning curve--especially on ceilings where it's hard to hold the gun up and spray evenly.
If you roll, good idea to leave the ceiling as-is. Way too easy to get it too wet and start the popcorn 'a poppin all over you.
If you spray, do the ceiling as well - can make a huge difference in the way the place looks (acoustic texture ceiling just starts to look dirty after a few years).
If you plan on keeping it as a rental for a while, I'd spray the whole thing with satin. Ceiling, walls, trim, all the same color, same sheen. Especially because of the acoustic ceiling. Who cares if the trim is the same sheen as the walls? Not a whole lot difference between satin and semi.
I'd still buy a good paint
Every time I spray, I swear the next time I will roll. Then every time I roll, I swear the next time I will spray. Keeping score, my next time will be spray.
One thing I have found is that I get better coverage from even cheap paint when I spray. For doing an apt., this might be your deciding factor.
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Spray the ceilings, the popcorn is a pain in the #### to roll, plus some of it will come off while rolling. Use a eggshell for the walls. A semi for the trim. Gloss is too much work for a rental, every blemish will show like a pimple on a beauty queen. Good Luck.
Rent a sprayer and get the job done. Learning curve? In 5 minutes you'll be a pro. Use long, broad, even sweeps. One thing to keep in mind, cover the tops of trim and baseboards with masking tape so the falling spray doesn't land on it and leave a texture. Clean the sprayer up as soon as you're done.-----------------------------------------------------------
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Spray the ceiling, and use flat on it. Any kind of gloss will show misses. Crank the feed down and spray 2 light coats. One going one way, and the other perpendicular to it. Use the widest pattern you can get. Let it dry an hour and check your coverate with the existing lights on. Shoot the crown and 1' of the wall. Cut in the wall paint. Use a good exhaust fan if you spray the walls to keep gloss off the ceiling.