I have a small house thats empty I am remodeling. I own a cheap spray rig that I’ve used several times. I only have used it to spray one color throughut a house. I’m thinking of sprayng the plastered walls a flat gold and the ceilings a flat white. What would be the best technique to do this. Note. I only paint my own rentals and flip houses. Should I overspray the white or the gold for repainting corner with roller and brush?
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If you paint the walls first, you could mask them off with 1mil plastic and blue tape, paint the ceiling and skip the brush work.
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What do you do about bleed through on the tape?I know there are tricks to deal with it, just thinking that the OP needs to know about it.
Surfaces should always be cleaned up before painting, regardless of the method used. Sometimes that cleaning is simply a quick sweep with a clean broom to remove any dust or spider webs, or it could be a complet wash with TSP solution and rinse. If the existing paint has stray particles in it, it's also a good idea to give everything a quick go-over with a pole sander before sweeping or washing the surfaces.
Make sure the paint is good and dry before using the blue tape on it, at least overnight. there might be some blead through in a few spots, and so you fix that with a brush. Better than cutting in the entire ceiling. --------------------------------------------------------
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The way to handle the bleed through is to mask the wall with wall and tape as already stated. However, you spray a light coat of the wall color over the tape edge and let it dry. That makes the bleed through be the wall color and it doesn't matter. Then you paint the ceiling and the ceiling color won't bleed through since the tape was sealed with the wall color already.
I think you would spray first and then finish the room with your trusted roller
I'm not trying to be critical, but most landlords and people who flip houses have an unwritten rule that the walls and ceiling are the same color.
I've worked for a lot of landlords and I've known just the opposite. Ceilings are generally painted flat white, trim is semigloss white, and walls are some sort of offwhite, such as bone white, antique white, linnen white... Also, the walls maybe flat or eggshell.--------------------------------------------------------
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One of the secrets an "old timer" passed down to me was to use the same paint in every room in every houseThen the next time you paint (in a year or two) all you do is just use your roller and you don't have to brush the cornersThey just find that one color they like really well and when it's time to paint they get the remainder of the five gallon bucket (left over from the last job) and they're ready to go.That way you waste less paint also.
That's the idea, it's just not one color.
One landlord I sometimes work for has one exception, he let's the tennants choose the bedroom wall color. It's enough to push them his way if they're undecided between his apartment or another one. --------------------------------------------------------
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I know one apartment complex that use the same color on the ceiling as the walls. It looks pretty good
I've known apartments that had one color semigloss on the ceiling, trim and walls. Didn't look too bad to be honest, if not a bit bland.
I've also know apartments to have texture paint on the ceiling, walls and trim. That looked bad. :)--------------------------------------------------------
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The house has been completely re plastered and new trim and doors. I thought about the tape and poly but also thought I could come back over the gold wall with a roller and a brush faster than mesiing with the plastic and tape. My question would really be how far down the wall from the ceiling would I expect to repaintfrom overspray. Thanks for all advice. I'm just trying to sell this one and with the new plaster and trim, the two tone would make a nice statement.
Beat's me. I'm guessing you'd have to repaint the whole wall. One thing for sure, it's not getting done till you get doing it. Let us know how it turns out. :)--------------------------------------------------------
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the two tone would make a nice statement.not with gold
I think I see what you're saying now--I started to say opposite, but on thinking about it, gold may cover over the white overspray better than white will cover gold. Plus it seems easier to paint the walls to the ceiling (horizontal and more or less looking ahead and slightly up), than to paint ceiling to walls where you have to contend with paint dripping down on your newly painted walls (and having to look up more). Did I confuse you enough?
[My first thought was that it would be easier to cut in one ceiling than four walls, but the linear footage would be the same.]
Paint up -down cause that's how it gets all over every thing..(Ceiling first)
Use a big paint shield to cut in the walls and if you want less over spray switch to a 3-15 tip at the cut in and go back to 4 or 5 15 for the field.