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[0:09] now today i'm just going to do a demo on
[0:11] how to roll a wall
[0:13] now these walls are basically in pretty
[0:16] poor condition
[0:17] basically i'm just going through and
[0:19] re-coating it because it's a rental
[0:20] house
[0:21] now when you're doing a wall
[0:24] the first thing you'll need to do is go
[0:26] through and cut it in
[0:27] now as i said this is a pretty bad
[0:29] condition and actually when they painted
[0:30] the green last time they took the green
[0:33] onto the under edge of the actual
[0:34] cornice so i've actually gone around and
[0:36] just painted that green as well just so
[0:39] when the walls finished it looks nice
[0:41] and neat
[0:43] so the first thing you'll need to do is
[0:44] go through and cut it all in
[0:46] and then start rolling
[0:48] now generally when rolling make sure you
[0:50] have your roller tray close by
[0:53] um you don't want it on the other side
[0:54] of the room i've seen people sort of
[0:56] walk around a room and leave the roller
[0:58] tray in one position you need to
[1:00] actually have the roller tray close by
[1:02] at the end of the job it saves quite a
[1:04] bit of time
[1:06] so first thing to do
[1:07] is to give the roller a good dip
[1:10] now normally i use 14 inch rollers but i
[1:13] know a lot of people out there only use
[1:14] um like 11 inch so
[1:16] i'll do this with an 11 inch roller
[1:19] so you know what you're doing
[1:21] now when you start
[1:23] always start away from the edge
[1:26] if you start right in the edge you'll
[1:28] end up with a big thick lot of paint
[1:30] right in the corner and you won't be
[1:32] able to actually work that paint out so
[1:34] stay away from the corner go up
[1:37] go down
[1:38] now that's taken a fair bit of paint off
[1:40] the roller i'll go into the edge
[1:43] and then come back down
[1:47] then i'll just work to the sides
[1:50] now when i feel the roller getting dry
[1:54] i'll stop
[1:56] now at this point i haven't gone all the
[1:58] way to the bottom or all the way to the
[2:00] top
[2:01] because every time you roll you when you
[2:03] stop
[2:04] you'll leave a little bit of a build up
[2:06] of paint
[2:07] and you don't want that build up right
[2:10] on the top
[2:11] so when you're rolling
[2:13] don't roll all the way to the top all
[2:14] the way the bottom straight away
[2:17] once that's done i'll go back
[2:20] through and this time i'll take it all
[2:23] the way to the top
[2:25] and all the way to the bottom
[2:28] now while i'm doing this i'm basically
[2:33] back rolling the paint
[2:38] so there you go i've taken that to the
[2:39] top i'll roll over that again in a
[2:42] minute but i'll do another dip
[2:47] so once again i'll start away from where
[2:50] i just rolled
[2:52] i'll work some paint out this way first
[2:56] and then i'll work in
[2:58] back into
[3:00] what i've just rolled
[3:06] and once again
[3:08] i'm not going to the top nor to the
[3:09] bottom
[3:12] now that i feel this sufficient paint
[3:14] off the roller
[3:15] i'll back roll over this again now when
[3:18] i say that there's still
[3:20] lots of paint in there
[3:23] if i want to force it all out
[3:25] but you don't
[3:26] force all the paint out the roller
[3:29] so starting from the bottom
[3:31] again i'll go up the top
[3:34] come back down
[3:35] from the bottom again
[3:38] up to the top
[3:39] back down
[3:44] same again i've swapped sides you might
[3:46] have to see a little bit better
[3:57] so once again i'll repeat the same
[3:59] process
[4:00] plenty of paint on the roller
[4:05] start away from where i'll finished
[4:08] spread the paint out
[4:16] roll back into what i've just done
[4:21] keep spreading it
[4:26] so now i'll start back here again
[4:28] if i go the other way you might see
[4:30] better
[4:31] from the bottom to the top and back down
[4:36] bottom
[4:37] to top
[4:38] back down
[4:42] same again
[4:50] now
[4:53] i've done that i'm still going to go
[4:54] back over the whole wall in a minute
[4:56] now when you have power points or light
[4:59] switches in the middle of the room or
[5:00] middle of the wall
[5:02] i find sometimes it's better
[5:05] to actually cut around it just before
[5:07] you roll
[5:10] so silly me
[5:12] left the paint on the other side of the
[5:13] room
[5:16] so what i'll do
[5:18] is i'll quickly cut around this
[5:27] now you can tape the whole thing but i
[5:28] generally just cut around it
[5:31] lay it off lightly
[5:33] and now i'll roll that
[5:37] now once again i'll load the roller
[5:41] but there's not quite as much wall to
[5:42] roll so i'll put a little bit less on
[5:44] the roller
[5:47] and hopefully i'll have enough
[5:50] so once again
[5:53] spread the paint
[5:57] lucky me the roller goes between the
[5:59] power point and the wall
[6:05] oops this time i went to the top which i
[6:08] should move but i did
[6:10] this
[6:11] roll of dip hasn't got as much paint on
[6:13] it
[6:14] as a previous one because i don't want
[6:16] to have too much paint there
[6:18] now around power points
[6:22] i would suggest you roll as close as you
[6:24] can
[6:26] to leave it nice and neat
[6:29] so once again
[6:31] i'll go from the top
[6:33] bottom sorry to the top
[6:36] now here's the awkward one sometimes
[6:39] when you're doing around power points
[6:41] etc
[6:43] you bring the roller down and then it's
[6:45] best to actually
[6:47] paint again
[6:48] either side
[6:50] so the rolling
[6:52] when you're rolling it you don't leave
[6:54] with a stop mark with a roller just
[6:55] there
[6:57] like if i come up the wall
[6:59] and stop
[7:00] there'd be slight mark there
[7:02] so
[7:04] what you should do
[7:06] is do that first
[7:08] that first
[7:10] and then go either side
[7:13] whoops
[7:14] either side if you don't hit it like i
[7:16] just did
[7:18] either side of the light switch or power
[7:20] point
[7:25] okay
[7:31] so now that's done i'm just going to go
[7:33] quickly go back and lay the whole wall
[7:35] off
[7:36] now depending on whether
[7:39] on a hot day
[7:41] you want to do this probably
[7:43] roll half a wall then lay it off being a
[7:46] little bit cooler
[7:47] this should be fine now i'll start from
[7:50] the bottom once again
[7:52] go up
[7:53] and come down
[7:55] and what this will do
[7:57] is it will smooth
[8:00] the finish off slightly
[8:05] now every time i stop i take the roller
[8:08] off the wall slightly
[8:12] from the bottom it's taken off up top
[8:15] back down
[8:16] take the roller off
[8:18] and each time
[8:20] i'm still overlapping
[8:22] you must overlap when you're rolling off
[8:32] and as you see i'm doing this reasonably
[8:34] quick
[8:39] i actually have a thoughts appointment
[8:41] in about five minutes so i better hurry
[8:44] so
[8:50] that's how you lay the wall off
[8:54] so what you'll find is weather
[8:55] conditions etc will vary when it comes
[8:58] to laying it off
[9:00] but if you look at the wall now it's got
[9:02] a more solid finish to it
[9:05] so hopefully um
[9:08] that will help next time you're rolling
[9:10] a wall
[9:11] now also down there if you're a bit
[9:13] unsure you haven't gone low enough
[9:16] you can also
[9:18] get the roller
[9:19] and go sideways like so but if you do
[9:22] that you do it before you lay the wall
[9:25] off
[9:28] so in this case i'm just going to blend
[9:30] that back in
[9:31] this is only first coat so it's not
[9:33] going to matter so
[9:34] much so there you go
[9:37] that's just been a bit of a demo on how
[9:39] to roll a wall
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