I apologize in advance if this has been covered before. I didn’t see much in the archives or my FHB CD. I even went out and bought the Taunton book on painting and it didn’t help either.
We are painting the interior of our new construction. I will finish priming walls and ceilings tomorrow with SW Promar 700 primer/finish. I have been spraying and then backrolling with a big Graco sprayer from SW. The plan is to use the white Promar 700 as the finish coat on the ceilings, garage and in the closets; then switch to promar 200 for the walls. There will be about three colors in the house with white ceilings. Since I have the sprayer until Monday morning does it make sense to try and spray some of wall colors? If so do you cut in and roll down quite a ways from the ceiling so as not to get overspray on the white ceilings? I saw some sort of a spray/cut-in gadget at SW that looked like a big drywall knock down knife for spraying the walls right up to the ceiling, but it seems like it would still be too small to stop the spray from getting on the ceiling.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Kind regards,
Dennis
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cut ceiling in first, then use the spray guard. hold it right up in the corner of wall and ceiling, or better, have a helper, using the sprayguard attached to an extension pole, hold the guard in place as you spray, works for me. the guards can also be a stiff piece of cardboard. good luck. Jim Z
If you "cut in and roll down quite a ways from the ceiling so as not to get overspray on the white ceilings", I think there would be a noticeable change in texture and appearance between your cut in portion and the sprayed portion. I've never sprayed an interior, but what "paperhanger" said makes sense.
Edited 6/5/2005 8:39 am ET by Danno
You can do what paperhanger advises, alone if you need to. Cut in your cielings pretty fat and use a smaller tip to reduce overspray (I've used a 413). It's worked well for me. And since you'll have plenty of 'overspray' over your cut-in, (and back-rolling) they'll be no noticeable difference in texture.
Paperhanger, Danno, and Suntoad,
Thanks to everyone for the replies. I tried your suggestions today, and despite only having a 19 tip it worked pretty well. OK, after the firsts 10 or 15 tries it worked pretty well :)
Regards,
Dennis
Congrat's!--thanks for keeping us posted.
Djj,
wish I had got to this sooner, If you don't want to risk overspray and want a VERY straight line at the ceiling wall intersection ( esp if walls have any texture or less than stellar finishing ) you should mask the ceiling, not too bad with the ez masker from 3m.
if i have a ceiling that is a different color than the walls i shoot the walls first and then mask the walls and spray the ceiling... just easier for me to mask a wall than a ceiling, that and i never backroll on smooth wall jobs, if the prep is right on you get paper smooth walls and folks just love it, until they need to touch up something or make a repair cuz you need to break out the sprayer.
james
Hey James, I've never masked for color changes, but I'd always thought if I did, I'd spray walls first and then mask walls; spray ceilings..(but this guy had already sprayed the ceiling). I'm glad to hear you get good results this way--I'll try it next time.But you backroll texture and don't on slick finish? This seems sort of counterintuitive to me. Care to share how you get a good 'paper smooth' finish on slick walls (without flashing/frosting, etc.) with a sprayer alone? What size tip/pressure, what type paint?
I much be werid. I spray my ceiling and walls the same color. I think it looks good.
Brownbag,
>>I much be werid. I spray my ceiling and walls the same color. I think it looks good.
Not if you had seen the colors my wife picked...
Dennis
Ditto.