Rolling the Ceiling to Paint a Living Room

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Hello, my name's Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I represent Expert Village.com. Now we're going to talk a little bit about rolling. Now, we're going to roll a ceiling so everything from up top is going to come down, be sure everything is completely covered. Go back over that a couple of times otherwise you're going to be doing a lot of clean-up work that nobody like to do. Now whenever you're rolling a ceiling the important thing to remember is to keep a wet edge. Now we're going to show you how to do that today, we can't stop and start with this kind of work. Once you get it going you need to really, really move it. So, once you're sure everything is covered then you want to go ahead and start cutting that in with the roller. Get a full roller of paint, push that into the nap, and start cutting a roller width all the way down the side where you cut in with the brush. Do this all around any obstacles like chandeliers, or lights, or vents, and also things like the fireplace. So, remember when you put that roller frame on the wall, when you lean it on to the wall, where ever you're leaning it, which ever side you're leaning on that's where the mark's going to be and the other side is going to be taking that mark off. Then you do what is called laying it out, start moving along making sure that you're taking all of the lines and marks out. Then you get a nice even coat that you're going to see in just a moment. Now, the first thing you need to do is to go ahead and get your roller pole and screw that into your roller frame. Now, once we have that in the roller frame you want to fill that roller nap up with paint. Now we put a screen on here, the purpose of that is that is going to push paint into the nap and lock it in just the way we patted our brush on the side of our bucket did. So go ahead and fill that up with paint. Now once you've got a good full roller of that go ahead and start putting that up on the wall. First of all just get a little paint up there and work it out. Now take that again, be real careful around this brick we don't want to get a lot of junk on it. Roll away from it a little bit and then roll up to it. There we go, we're going to cut that in too. Going real, real smoothly and easy and you see this has a little bevel and that's doing the job for us. You see I'm leaning on the back side of the roller and that's whats giving us that bevel look. You got to be careful, you want to cover it too. That line is going to show so we want to get that kind of even. I've got my paint out there, that's what that is. Keeping a wet edge really is the challenge of this work. You see here, this edge is getting dry on me so I'm going to pull that out. Don't have to do much, just keep that edge wet.

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