[MUSIC PLAYING] This is Chris, the Idaho Painter
Here on Home Improvement How To's. Today, we're going
to give you five tips to paint ceilings like a
professional did it, and do them fast. We're going to be rolling
these ceilings with an 18 inch roller. You can either spray them
with an airless sprayer or roll them. Just for reasons, here
on this situation, we're going to be
rolling them today. They're going to
removing the carpets. I don't need to put
any drop cloths down. But stay tuned for this video to
see how we roll these ceilings and make them look like
a professional did it. Here we go. So the first step in rolling
these ceilings really fast, we're going to be using
an 18 inch roller. You have the option of using
an 18 inch or a 9 inch. Don't want to be looking up at
these ceilings for very long, so we're going to be rolling
them with an 18 inch roller. This is a contractor
white woven roller, and we like to roll our
ceilings with a 3/8 inch roller [? nap. ?] So this is all
about speed, get it done fast. I got my pans over here. I'm using a 5 gallon pan
with this 18 inch roller. If you could show me that. Bring that pan there, John. Show them what this
pan looks like. This is a really large pan
[? to roll ?] [? out of. ?] You definitely want to have a big
pan that's going to hold a lot of paint, so this is a 5
gallon pan, 18 inch roller, tip number one for speed. Tip number two in rolling
these ceilings really fast, we want to get the edges
done the very first thing, because we want to be
able to roll our walls, and go up the wall
and do our cut in so that's going to dry first. We're using a special
roller that the roller rolls over the edges right here, and
you're got the lint or the fuzz on the edge of the roller. So somebody's running around
with this 9 inch roller and doing all the edges
first, and it goes really fast with this type of roller. So check this out. We're going to show you
what this looks like. See that up there
[? with the ?] [? sign. ?] In rolling these edges up here,
here's a roller all loaded up. It's got the nap or lint all the
way wrapped around the edges, and it makes it really
simple doing these edges. You can see up here,
we've already rolled it, and it gets right in
those edges nice and easy, and fills it all in quick
and fast, just like that. This thing is awesome. It's a new roller that a guy
just created here recently. We got sent a whole box of them,
[? and so ?] they work great. So this is on thing that's
going to save you a lot of time. Tip number three is
using the proper product. We like to use a
dead, flat paint when it comes to painting ceilings. It hides imperfections
a lot better, it doesn't show light glare,
and then it doesn't show the flashing or roller [? lap ?]
[? marks ?] like a satin or semigloss, or even
an eggshell paint does. So definitely use a flat
paint wherever you can. There are situations
where you probably shouldn't use a flat paint,
like in a bathroom or a kitchen. But 99% of the time, we're
going to be using a flat paint, and it's just going to make
your ceilings look a lot better. There's a lot of products out
there that you can use that are really good [INAUDIBLE]
[? dead ?] [? flat. ?] Tip number four is
rolling your ceilings, laying them out and rolling
in the proper direction. So check this out. I've got John here, and he's
rolling the ceiling right here with our 18 inch
[? nap, ?] and there's certain things you want to
take into consideration when you roll your ceiling so that
it looks like a professional did it. One is the direction
you roll the pain, and then how you
actually lay it out. So John, we're going
[INAUDIBLE] rolling [? here, ?] and then we're going to ask him
to talk about it just a little bit. So I see, John, you're
rolling the ceilings now, and you're laying
it out up there. Why don't you tell us
why you're rolling it the direction you're
rolling it and how to go about laying it out? Anytime you walk into a room
and we're doing ceilings, one of the things we want to
think about is-- or two things. You want to think about where
the light is coming from, and you want to think about
where a person or a guest is going to be predominately
standing and seeing the ceiling. So a room like this,
we've got light coming in on the south
side, and we've got light coming in on the east side. What we want to do
is we want to roll against the length of
this room so that when someone's coming in from
the door on the east side and they're looking
this way, they're not seeing that light flashing
across the roll marks. They're less likely to see
the lap marks if they're going across them than they are
if they're going towards them. And then how do you go
about laying it out? You're going to be painting
up here on the ceiling, and I think you got to lay it
out instead of just rolling it in all random directions,
and then get it on there and lay it out? Yeah. I always work in small squares. I work my way down
to keep a wet edge. So like this ceiling, I'll
split into three chunks. I'll do one chunk that's
about 4 feet by 4 feet, and then another one,
and then another one. And then what I've always
done with each section, I roll that square out all
going the same direction, and then pick my nap up
and go the same direction. Because you want that stippling
to all be going the same way so that you don't cast
different looking shadows one way or the other. Cool. So this is the entrance
to this room right here. I'm standing at
the door entrance. We've got windows
right here that are going to be casting
in natural light, and the door behind
me is a glass door, and this is where
people enter in. And so you can see we're
rolling the direction is going crossways
instead of lengthwise. So we chose that
direction because of the natural lighting. We'll walk into this
other room here, and we'll show you
another scenario. This is the entrance to
this office right here. We've got a window right there. So this room right here, instead
of running and laying out the ceiling coming towards me
to the entrance of this door, we're going to run it across. So it's going to running from
corner to corner right there, and you're going to less
likely see lap marks or flashing when you're spraying
if you run it that direction. This room right here has
no windows, no doors. Or it has a door,
but no windows. And we're going to be running
it instead of lengthwise coming to me, we're going
to be running it from this corner to
that corner cross-wise. So Tip number five to paint your
ceilings and making it look like a professional did it, we
like to paint the vents and any type of lights, [? can lights ?]
[? or anything, ?] so they match the ceilings. A lot of times
the vents, lights, and any type of fixtures that
are mounted into the ceilings, they yellow over time and
look kind of old and dingy. And even if they're
brand new, it looks a lot better if they match
and blend in with the ceiling. So what we do typically they're
metal and they're high gloss. We'll take [? a bond ?]
can of primer, and we use like an
extreme bonding primer, and we'll spray those
things before we roll the ceilings with a
spray can of bonding primer. So run around, spray those
with a bonding primer, and then we take a handheld
[? airless ?] sprayer, and we'll go around and spray
them with our flat wall paint that we'd be rolling on. If you're spraying the ceilings
with an airless sprayer, then you don't have to worry
about getting out a handheld. But the handhelds are
really, really convenient when it comes to
spraying these ceilings. We're going to be
rolling it on because we get a lot better finish
[? than ?] rolling. It looks a lot nicer. Same with the walls. This is an important
office building right here. Rolling them, we
want those vents to match and look
really good, so we're spraying them with a handheld
after we're done rolling it. So we're going to spray the
vents, spray the lights, and then we're going to come in
and roll, and cut in around it, too, so we don't have any
over sprayed flashing. So that's tip number five. So there you have it, five
tips to painting a ceiling like a professional did it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Please give me a thumbs up. Please consider
subscribing to our channel. One pro tip while you're
painting your ceilings. Use safety glasses. John's been rolling
these ceilings probably not even an hour,
and there's speckles all over those safety glasses. Saves your eyeballs. So that speckles and
splatter coming down would actually be
in John's eyes, so you'll wear safety goggles
while you're rolling ceilings. We use a high quality
paint designed specifically for ceilings, and the
splatter's a little bit less than [INAUDIBLE]. [INAUDIBLE] A lot less. Yep, hopefully you've
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