How To Paint A Wall With A Roller Evenly

You ll need a roller cover and roller cage paint stir sticks paint tray and liners spray bottle of water for latex paint paint thinner and tray for alkyd paint and a 5 in 1 tool.

How to paint a wall with a roller evenly.

Immerse the roller cover in the five gallon bucket. But if you do it before the paint dries completely you ll mess up the paint surrounding the spot. From the corner and roll upward at a slight angle using light pressure. How to paint a wall this video will show the best technique for painting walls with a roller.

Also it will show you how to roll a wall and get an even finis. 2 prep your materials. To paint a wall evenly you should expect to buy floor and furniture covers paintbrushes in various sizes rollers of various texture finishes a paint tray masking tape and a telescopic handle to reach the tallest parts of a wall. You can then move onto another section repeating the same pattern.

Continue this motion until the applied paint is evenly spread for that section of the wall. Aim to cover the areas by the corner ceiling and bottom portions of the wall that you intentionally left blank. Lay the paint on the wall with a sweeping stroke. Quickly fill in the gap using a series of overlapping random.

Stop a few inches from the ceiling. Start about a foot from the bottom and 6 in. Put your roller cover on the cage. The last thing you want is to roller the wall and see a huge streak of yellow coming through your new colour.

Do not immerse far beyond the roller cover as this will cover the roller frame in paint and result in drips. Spread the paint to unpainted areas by sweeping the roller up and down. The best method for painting with a roller is to apply it in alternating m or w pattern working back and forth over the same section until it s completely filled in. Now roll up and down back toward the corner to quickly spread the paint.

After the paint dries usually about 4 hours touch up the missed spots with a brush. Cut in along the edge of one wall and approximately the length of two rollers on the ceiling edge beside each of the adjoining walls. A extended roller handle can help you reach the upper sections of the wall nearest to the ceiling.