How to paint walls. How to paint a wall using a roller. Best Technique.

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[00:09] now today i'm just going to do a demo on

[00:11] how to roll a wall

[00:13] now these walls are basically in pretty

[00:16] poor condition

[00:17] basically i'm just going through and

[00:19] re-coating it because it's a rental

[00:20] house

[00:21] now when you're doing a wall

[00:24] the first thing you'll need to do is go

[00:26] through and cut it in

[00:27] now as i said this is a pretty bad

[00:29] condition and actually when they painted

[00:30] the green last time they took the green

[00:33] onto the under edge of the actual

[00:34] cornice so i've actually gone around and

[00:36] just painted that green as well just so

[00:39] when the walls finished it looks nice

[00:41] and neat

[00:43] so the first thing you'll need to do is

[00:44] go through and cut it all in

[00:46] and then start rolling

[00:48] now generally when rolling make sure you

[00:50] have your roller tray close by

[00:53] um you don't want it on the other side

[00:54] of the room i've seen people sort of

[00:56] walk around a room and leave the roller

[00:58] tray in one position you need to

[01:00] actually have the roller tray close by

[01:02] at the end of the job it saves quite a

[01:04] bit of time

[01:06] so first thing to do

[01:07] is to give the roller a good dip

[01:10] now normally i use 14 inch rollers but i

[01:13] know a lot of people out there only use

[01:14] um like 11 inch so

[01:16] i'll do this with an 11 inch roller

[01:19] so you know what you're doing

[01:21] now when you start

[01:23] always start away from the edge

[01:26] if you start right in the edge you'll

[01:28] end up with a big thick lot of paint

[01:30] right in the corner and you won't be

[01:32] able to actually work that paint out so

[01:34] stay away from the corner go up

[01:37] go down

[01:38] now that's taken a fair bit of paint off

[01:40] the roller i'll go into the edge

[01:43] and then come back down

[01:47] then i'll just work to the sides

[01:50] now when i feel the roller getting dry

[01:54] i'll stop

[01:56] now at this point i haven't gone all the

[01:58] way to the bottom or all the way to the

[02:00] top

[02:01] because every time you roll you when you

[02:03] stop

[02:04] you'll leave a little bit of a build up

[02:06] of paint

[02:07] and you don't want that build up right

[02:10] on the top

[02:11] so when you're rolling

[02:13] don't roll all the way to the top all

[02:14] the way the bottom straight away

[02:17] once that's done i'll go back

[02:20] through and this time i'll take it all

[02:23] the way to the top

[02:25] and all the way to the bottom

[02:28] now while i'm doing this i'm basically

[02:33] back rolling the paint

[02:38] so there you go i've taken that to the

[02:39] top i'll roll over that again in a

[02:42] minute but i'll do another dip

[02:47] so once again i'll start away from where

[02:50] i just rolled

[02:52] i'll work some paint out this way first

[02:56] and then i'll work in

[02:58] back into

[03:00] what i've just rolled

[03:06] and once again

[03:08] i'm not going to the top nor to the

[03:09] bottom

[03:12] now that i feel this sufficient paint

[03:14] off the roller

[03:15] i'll back roll over this again now when

[03:18] i say that there's still

[03:20] lots of paint in there

[03:23] if i want to force it all out

[03:25] but you don't

[03:26] force all the paint out the roller

[03:29] so starting from the bottom

[03:31] again i'll go up the top

[03:34] come back down

[03:35] from the bottom again

[03:38] up to the top

[03:39] back down

[03:44] same again i've swapped sides you might

[03:46] have to see a little bit better

[03:57] so once again i'll repeat the same

[03:59] process

[04:00] plenty of paint on the roller

[04:05] start away from where i'll finished

[04:08] spread the paint out

[04:16] roll back into what i've just done

[04:21] keep spreading it

[04:26] so now i'll start back here again

[04:28] if i go the other way you might see

[04:30] better

[04:31] from the bottom to the top and back down

[04:36] bottom

[04:37] to top

[04:38] back down

[04:42] same again

[04:50] now

[04:53] i've done that i'm still going to go

[04:54] back over the whole wall in a minute

[04:56] now when you have power points or light

[04:59] switches in the middle of the room or

[05:00] middle of the wall

[05:02] i find sometimes it's better

[05:05] to actually cut around it just before

[05:07] you roll

[05:10] so silly me

[05:12] left the paint on the other side of the

[05:13] room

[05:16] so what i'll do

[05:18] is i'll quickly cut around this

[05:27] now you can tape the whole thing but i

[05:28] generally just cut around it

[05:31] lay it off lightly

[05:33] and now i'll roll that

[05:37] now once again i'll load the roller

[05:41] but there's not quite as much wall to

[05:42] roll so i'll put a little bit less on

[05:44] the roller

[05:47] and hopefully i'll have enough

[05:50] so once again

[05:53] spread the paint

[05:57] lucky me the roller goes between the

[05:59] power point and the wall

[06:05] oops this time i went to the top which i

[06:08] should move but i did

[06:10] this

[06:11] roll of dip hasn't got as much paint on

[06:13] it

[06:14] as a previous one because i don't want

[06:16] to have too much paint there

[06:18] now around power points

[06:22] i would suggest you roll as close as you

[06:24] can

[06:26] to leave it nice and neat

[06:29] so once again

[06:31] i'll go from the top

[06:33] bottom sorry to the top

[06:36] now here's the awkward one sometimes

[06:39] when you're doing around power points

[06:41] etc

[06:43] you bring the roller down and then it's

[06:45] best to actually

[06:47] paint again

[06:48] either side

[06:50] so the rolling

[06:52] when you're rolling it you don't leave

[06:54] with a stop mark with a roller just

[06:55] there

[06:57] like if i come up the wall

[06:59] and stop

[07:00] there'd be slight mark there

[07:02] so

[07:04] what you should do

[07:06] is do that first

[07:08] that first

[07:10] and then go either side

[07:13] whoops

[07:14] either side if you don't hit it like i

[07:16] just did

[07:18] either side of the light switch or power

[07:20] point

[07:25] okay

[07:31] so now that's done i'm just going to go

[07:33] quickly go back and lay the whole wall

[07:35] off

[07:36] now depending on whether

[07:39] on a hot day

[07:41] you want to do this probably

[07:43] roll half a wall then lay it off being a

[07:46] little bit cooler

[07:47] this should be fine now i'll start from

[07:50] the bottom once again

[07:52] go up

[07:53] and come down

[07:55] and what this will do

[07:57] is it will smooth

[08:00] the finish off slightly

[08:05] now every time i stop i take the roller

[08:08] off the wall slightly

[08:12] from the bottom it's taken off up top

[08:15] back down

[08:16] take the roller off

[08:18] and each time

[08:20] i'm still overlapping

[08:22] you must overlap when you're rolling off

[08:32] and as you see i'm doing this reasonably

[08:34] quick

[08:39] i actually have a thoughts appointment

[08:41] in about five minutes so i better hurry

[08:44] so

[08:50] that's how you lay the wall off

[08:54] so what you'll find is weather

[08:55] conditions etc will vary when it comes

[08:58] to laying it off

[09:00] but if you look at the wall now it's got

[09:02] a more solid finish to it

[09:05] so hopefully um

[09:08] that will help next time you're rolling

[09:10] a wall

[09:11] now also down there if you're a bit

[09:13] unsure you haven't gone low enough

[09:16] you can also

[09:18] get the roller

[09:19] and go sideways like so but if you do

[09:22] that you do it before you lay the wall

[09:25] off

[09:28] so in this case i'm just going to blend

[09:30] that back in

[09:31] this is only first coat so it's not

[09:33] going to matter so

[09:34] much so there you go

[09:37] that's just been a bit of a demo on how

[09:39] to roll a wall

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