How to Paint A Ceiling

hey welcome to home renovation YouTube channel designed to help you guys who are homeowners renovate your houses get professional results today we are going to be showing you how to paint your ceiling and I know what might almost sound redundant but listen there are a lot of really great tips that you need to have so that hey you do it right be it looks amazing and see you don't hurt your neck stay tuned [Music] so one of the most basic skill sets that any home renovators gonna need is to know how to paint a ceiling and do a nice job of it because there are a lot of ways that you can really make a mess of your house if you don't know how to paint a ceiling properly we've all seen the house before right the smooth ceiling lots of pot lights patches everywhere lines everywhere yes there is the secret to get a job done without having any of that ugly stuff showing and it makes it look like one clean finish and I'm not talking about spring talking about brush and roller and I'm gonna show 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other videos that are related to your situation now having said all of that let's get into the video today we are dealing with brand-new construction today so painting your ceiling is the same in new construction as it is if you are doing a just a rework but the process is almost identical except in this situation we have to add the sanding of the drywall work and priming the drywall before we get into painting the ceiling and that's really simple I like using these little blue sponges with the curve on it all right these things are awesome because I can get right into my corners without putting a scratch line I've seen a lot of these things and they're square on both ends if you put that up here like this and then drag it across I'll show you what happens you end up with a line on your ceiling okay that's not something you want to have there so buy one of these living angle and then you can hit both that corner and make it look pretty the only other secret you need is to make sure that all your edges are feathered it's like really feathered to a point where I guess misty cloud okay there's no definitive line in your drywall mud to your drywall once you get that accomplished you're ready to go the only other thing take your 360 sander put it up on your joints all right and go opposite direction that you put the mug on just to change the texture of the mud now this is really important because the paper is really smooth so the mud isn't always as smooth as you think it is and just by the way like this nice and easy you'll put a little bit of sanding on it change the texture mud and now it's ready to be painted when you're priming now I love this rig for sure luck Paul and my handle and just so you know if you're interested in the tools that I'm using we have a link in the description oddly enough it's for Amazon okay we put together a special page with all the products and tools that I like to use in case you like to get something that you're familiar seen when you're priming drywall you want to make sure you're not using too much pressure but you are using pressure okay you're pushing this paint into the drywall don't use so much pressure that your wrists popping the screws and making huge paint lines and don't run the roller right into that corner because you're they're gonna end up marking up your paint on the corresponding wall okay finish for the gentle touch back rolling and you won't have any lines the other secret is Prime in the same direction that you're going to want to be painting with your finished paint remember when we paint ceilings we can do two coats so the second coat you want to be paint in the same direction as your second coat and that's going to be determined by a couple of different things generally when I'm painting a ceiling if I have a window that's facing south then I want to make sure if the Sun is pouring through a window that I'm finishing the paint in the same direction as the Sun so if there is any little lines or ridges even run the microscopic level Sun porn across the ceiling will highlight it with a shot so if the sun's porn in your window paint towards the Sun and if it's not going the longest wall in the room that's a great way to do it get started now the only other thing you need to know about priming is make sure you let this stuff dry for a good couple of hours before you start doing any touch-up work it might be dry to the surface but if you put a knife with mud up there and start scraping around and trying to do your touch-up in your prime check well this is still damp you're gonna make it a heck of a mess in your ceiling and we don't want that there we go so now we're all primed and we gotta figure it out let's move on and we'll talk about how to do a prime check and make sure your ceiling is ready to be painted before you paint all right so once we're done our primer we want to jump right into doing the prime check as soon as it's dry for about two hours and that's as simple as just taking a little bit of mud and a spotlight and going all around your surface and checking for imperfections now you're gonna find them everywhere you go sanding is not the art of making everything smooth it's the art of getting rid of all of your ridges and blending your joints to your drywall paper so the reason we do a prime check before we paint a ceiling is this and this goes holds true whether it's a new construction or you're painting a ceiling in an existing space you always want to go by and check things out and the prime check does two things for you a it fixes all of your mistakes and B it fixes all the mistakes that nobody else bothered to fix okay don't take it for granted that because your ceiling looks pretty good that it's all good to go because this is atrocious so I'm gonna just use a standard trouble light comes on usually like a 25 foot cord 100 watt bulb and that'll show me all of my mistakes so now now you can see all the little pits and nicks and scratches now they're all smooth they've all been sanded right so now we just try to take our compound and slide ourselves over here and this is just a result bulkheads are really brutal right because you're taping an outside corner you're taping an inside corner usually this area here it's gonna get a combination of or not enough mud that's just the way it is all kids are very normal that way you can use a regular mud when you're doing your touch-ups or you can use a compound with a hardener I'm gonna suggest if you use the hardener they'll save you from having to do any priming afterwards but today I'm using regular mud because I find that a lot of people don't know where to find hardener or are unable to get it when it reads on where they live so we have a company called CGC and they make a 45-minute mud and that mud allows me to do all this and then not have to prime if you want to see that process it's in our other painting video which you may have seen already there we go so that's it we just fix that up give this an hour or two to dry and here's the deal if I can't see it with this light it doesn't matter what time of day it is how much lighting you have what time of year it is you know in the fall sometimes the winter the before o'clock you get really strange low-light this covers up every single imperfection you're gonna find so that when you paint your ceiling you know it's gonna be perfect and you're not gonna be disappointed two three weeks or three months down the road there's a certain time a day you're sitting there and you look up and go my god what an ugly ceiling it happens to everybody so don't be fooled all right especially in your buying a new house all the ceilings look great because they use a really boring flat white paint and they always take you through at a time of day when you can't tell how bad the paint job is but this will solve all your problems now let's get on with the painting so we're just about to jump into the painting but I want to show you this real quick this is my prime check touch-up area and I need to give it a quick little scuff here there we go drop the mic we're done now my spots need to be primed because I use regular mud instead of using a regular primer having to wait 20 minutes half an hour I'm gonna use this because this sucker here boom done in three minutes ready to go so great product recommend using it all the time I've been using this stuff since since I was old enough to use spray paint so when doing a new ceiling I'm gonna give you an industry secret here and that's this paint right here it doesn't look like much it's not a very sex again but the reality is this is a ceiling paint it's incredibly flat it has no acrylic additive which is what you see in paint that gives it to the shine and the sheen so without the acrylic additive in this what you get is a perfect blended painted surface where you don't see any lines also gives you the ability if you have it mixed properly to go do touch-ups at a later date and it's almost invisible so when you buy this have them shake it for you at the paint store bring it home and use it right away if you let it sit around for a couple days all the additives start to separate and then you're gonna get inconsistencies with your finished product and you won't be able to do any touch-ups now 1105 everyone got to pick one of these up what I'm doing is I'm just going to be putting it into my tray I'm usually a regular roller and I know there are roller systems out there they're a lot faster but we're demonstrating for homeowners how to renovate their houses so there's a lot of painting contractors I have different systems that are a little bit faster but that equipment takes a while to set up and clean up and you can only use it when you're painting a lot of stuff this rig right here traditional roller 15 millimeter nap I'm gonna call that half inch with a tray liner a regular tray a 3-inch brush and you can paint every room in your house okay the only difference is is you have to wash again now I'm using a long extension pole today and generally it's not necessary to have a long pole to paint the ceiling I mean I have a nice little two to four foot pole and that would work fine but what this does this pole allows me to paint my ceiling they keep my hands nice and low okay so when I'm painting a ceiling I don't have my hands above my heart and that's really key to not straining yourself there's gonna be a long day painting a basement and if I'm up here like this a my arms are gonna get fatigued but it's gonna cause my heart to work way too hard so I just take it easy and I keep my hands nice and low and I can paint my ceiling with these and I'm not straining with a small little stick okay so of course we have to load it up in this situation these windows in this area are facing north so we're not gonna get direct sunlight blowing through here so we're gonna paint along well first just because when you paint a really long wall it's easier to keep the paint wet on a short wall so for my second coat I want to make my life easy and have the short distance okay if I have a little bit of drawing and overlapping on the first coat it's not going to show through as bad as if it's on the second so all I do is I extend my pole get myself comfortable there we go right into the corner and ran back nice here we go so basically my my process is this I've rolled the long wall and then I'll come and cut and then I'll give it an out an hour and a half quicksand with my 360 sander and then they'll cut and then roll do it in the reverse order when you do your first coat you'll find that you don't have much of a cut to do after you roll so it's nice to just get the rolling done and let the paint start drying because when I stand I want the paint to be nice and dry before I put a sander up there and I'm not saying right into the crevices so if I cut after I roll on the first coat and then I wait about an hour I can cut the ceiling and by the time I'm done cutting the ceiling it's been almost an hour and a half since I actually painted the ceiling then I'm ready to sand it real quick and then roll so the goal here is to paint long even strokes okay because the longer you roll it out there we go the more you can keep your edges wet all right the edge of the paint at the front here this is the line you want to keep wet all the time and so you want to paint one half and then switch to the other half now because the paint doesn't have any acrylic in it it actually helps to facilitate painting the whole room without getting any dry lines okay if you like a shinier surface you have to be really careful and really quick but I like this because it's not a very fast process you get a lot of work done in a short amount of time with very little effort and then at the end of the day even if you're making a little mistake this paints so good it's gonna hide it all for anyway one of the thing I'm going to point it is the direction of the cage you'll see that the rod is here on the lead edge that's because there's more pressure here than on the backside and I want to have the pressure up at the front all right no when you're painting your ceiling finish coat you're not using a lot of pressure but still it helps to eliminate the lines if you have it facing in the right direction so roll it out there we go and then finish off like that boom now you can imagine how much effort would be involved in doing this ceiling if you're holding on to that paint roller and standing on a ladder up and down and up and doun paint in every direction this makes this entire job relatively quick and really painless so here's the reason why I'm using a single gallons of paint from my ceiling and I'm doing an entire basement here all right so I could have bought a five-gallon pail but here's what happens when you open the five-gallon pail and you start pouring it out by the time you finish all of the projects there's so much air going into that pail that now the paint's starting to dry and get little crumbs and dirt in it so what I like to use is one gallon at a time I'll pour three quarters of a gallon into my paint tray use the rest as my cutting cane and now it's easy to run around and just touch this up make sure that everything is coated don't get lazy with this and only do it on the second coat it will show and you'll see a dark line around your ceiling so make sure you get your cutting done and then it's a great time to go for coffee and then come back we'll cut again and then roll the short side then the ceilings done [Music] one last little thing if you have a trapdoor in your ceiling for the shutoff valve for your tap outside make sure you paint it this is a plastic in a lot of cases and it looks great today but in a couple years after that UV light that bounces around outside and comes through the windows hits this it'll end up turning yellow so give it a good little paint job hit all four sides roll and set it on the ground to dry we're back from coffee break which turned into lunch you know this happens when we get together listen here's the rest of the system we've got our first coat completed now and like I said if you don't take a whole lunch break then you can move a lot faster but do the cut first for the second all right so that's just as simple as getting your brush wet and then making it dry after I'm done in the cutting in I'm gonna take my sander pull give it a quick scuff and then another coat okay so here's my radius 360 sander huh let's get rid of the old sheet that's covered and drywall dust before you say in your paint you want to have a nice clean sheet this is a 220 for everybody who's asking what I'm using done self-adhesive okay this is brilliant and like I said don't go right into the corners really what we're doing here is we're not trying to scuff it up to make the paint stick or anything like that we're passing over the general surface to make sure if there's any little hairs or little chunks of dirt that they're gone you can't see everything in every kind of light so it's better to assume that something up here needs to be sanded off than to assume that everything's perfect here we are just a quick pass over the general area good practice so I just thought what a little nugget that I had to get rid of that's awesome alright I agree the first time I ever painted a ceiling that my god I was young and stupid and I didn't know the right way to do it so I was using a short stick like this yeah how much paint there was a big commercial space and it's been painting for eight hours straight like this where the pigs got foam how much I think it must've been about twenty-two just young and dumb and I got home and I woke up the next morning I couldn't move my head that's it Mike I'll see is that my body basically said okay you're done for the day we need another day to recover from whatever stupidity were involved in the night before crazy all right whoo yeah let's go see bump bump bump is like CSI here look at every one of these little spots that's a chunk that was on the ceiling that would have cast a shadow now they're not gonna be a problem okay so now we're gonna go to the opposite direction same process get the cage pointing the direction that you're heading don't roll right into the corner just gentle pressure now that the ceiling is all sealed up with the primer in the first coat this paint is gonna sit on the surface a lot nicer and you'll find that the lead edge will stay wetter a lot longer do some back rolling now that I mention it back rolling is this you're rolling this this part of the ceiling here right stretch your paint out and then go backwards over the joint put the middle of the joint in the middle of your roller right there and then slowly come forward there we go constantly leaving that pressure on the front of your roller so you don't get lines on the ceiling in behind I'm just gonna do this about 25 more times and we're often yeah well that pretty much wraps up all the information I've got on how to paint a ceiling remember try to keep your hands low take your time watch for marks and if you have any questions about the process or the tools or the materials have some in the comments section below of course you know I'm in that comment section every day answering questions happy to help and if you want to know where to get all the stuff that we're using we have a link on our description of the video to go to Amazon if you want to help support our channel by going to Amazon to do your shopping that would be appreciated every little bit helps more importantly and Rosanna is there to help you guys get the tools that you need without having to shop around for it alright and if you want to sit around and watch me paint the rest the ceiling because you find it somehow relaxing and soothing then go right ahead [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

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Length: 21min 56sec (1316 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 26 2019