The most important detail most people will miss is that this guy is using a professional roller that is of so much higher quality than the $10 crap most people will buy for a 1 time painting project. That alone will impact the quality of how most at home painting projects will turn out.
Lol he uses an epoxy flooring roller 18 inch. No professional would ever use that, true pros use 9 inch. That's why he has to cover the whole room in plastic lol
Remember this is sped way up, friends! Don’t dislocate a shoulder trying to match that pace, take your time. Unnecessary advice for some, life saving for others.
What they don't tell you: fast pace means a rain of tiny paint droplets. This is not a problem to a professional, as they will SPEND TIME to cover the whole ground. However, as you - amateur painter - try to make sloppy job covering the floor, expect to spend a lot of time scrubbing it afterwards. Or, be a sensible person a go slow.
Amazing how well that translates to spanish, cutting = recortar, painter's tape = cinta de carrocero, somebody did the translation to english in some point bc there is no way that's casual
@@gorehammer1 yeah just watch a pro, practice on something harmless, load the brush properly, have some faith. It's not so much "talent" as it is slowing down & paying attention to how you position everything, down to your footing.
Rock solid technique. Notice how he didn't paint the entire wall with a single dip like some other idiots? He is applying a proper coat as thw correct speed and then dipping. I wish the video wasn't sped up because this is absolutely textbook good technique.
Exactly, same here lol but I used to do music and it's like watching another writer going through his technique and taking the best parts and applying them to your style.
I guess a the video title of "Professional painter shows the last step in a long process of patching holes, removing switches and outlet covers, sanding, more sanding, cutting in the edges, and THEN rolling out the wall" wasn't as click-baity.
I mean they just say 'paint a wall', which he does. For those who struggle with the painting part this might be a helpful video. Personally I like the painting part, but not the 'remove all furniture, tape all borders, clean all the paint stains, repaint certain areas that somehow don't have enough coverage, clean the room again, clean all rollers and brushes, move all furniture back to the room, put all the equipment away' part.
Only one clip showing the actual time taking part: the corners. That is like, 95% of the work. This is not the fastest way. This is just the regular way.
Yes the diagonal slash works really well but don't slant it to far forward because you will thin the paint coat out too much and sometimes depending on the new color it won't cover the old paint. A regular 15 ft long wall should have a slash every 3 ft (5 slashes) with a 9in roller and every 5ft with an 18in roller(3 slashes). This interval varies depending on the height of the wall.
@Karl with a K it has EVERYTHING to do with the amount of paint on the roller therefore you don't have to dip in ya bucket so much, which is what you were complaining about.
@Karl with a K you obviously paint all the time. 90 percent of the people I've painted with uses a 3/8 nap. I make a living painting. I don't have painters come in because I paint. Genius, maybe go to a real pai t store and talk to some professionals. Most use 3/8, some use 1/4 and some use half. Different ways to do shit man and I can tell you've done none of them. Well, let's go paint for a living now. Work time where I live.
The fastest way is to film yourself and speed it up 😂 And yes: it's the cutting that takes the longest time. Especially if you don't have neat edges to work with 😩
30 years as a painting contractor confirms this to be the correct technique. If you use cheap roller sleeves, they won't hold as much paint, but it's still the same technique - just slower. Keep your sleeves in good order and be patient. Pros didn't learn in a week.
I have a question using a Roller doesn't consume more paint and so you'll be' able to paint less times over years because of the more thickness of the layers? Thanks
@@jjmill5209 I mainly work right to left, but that's only my preference. So, I always lay off into the wet edge that I just completed, overlapping about 300mm/ 1 foot to ensure no roller tracks remain.
@@andreabuzzolan9807 Using a roller doesn't use more paint necessarily, unless you put too much on - then it will sag and look terrible. Aim for 2 coats of evenly spread paint, then you will generally get good coverage. Thickness alone won't give you added protection as it is only the top coat that gets scuffed and dirty.
@@ErgonBill thanks, I usually work left to right, lay it on like the video except going left to right and I go back after laying it on and do a final lay off starting back at the left where I just started laying it on, is that proper?
I used to paint museum walls and capital G .. Gallery walls .. in NYC and Chicago and Minneapolis ... BIG walls that needed to be painted fast and correctly. Room after room. This is the Way
you don't have to wear painter whites to be a "top tier" painter...I wore them for 15 years and got sick of them and switched to other wear that was more comfortable. I'd love to smack the person who thought painter's have to wear white.
@@Homo_neanderthal Wasn't being "aggressive" as you put it, it was figuratively speaking in a humorous way. AND, you don't have to wear "painter whites" to be a top tier painter.
Finally a video of someone not rolling out a wall in one dip lol ive used the v technique it really does help quite a bit. He def is on par with cutting that wall to the ceiling
This is far better than that Amana painting where he dry rolls everything. It’s just a s fast and you end up with a better end result by only doing the V with an 18” roller, spreading, then backrolling.
when you back roll, it evenly spreads out the paint across the surface, just like how he is doing in the video. You can actually just smear all the paint on the wall then back roll everything out and it should be even.
I’ve been a painting contractor for 20 plus years and I’ve never used a roller pan for painting walls. Professional painters use 5 gallon buckets with a metal grid. We also only use lambskin roller covers and Wooster poles and handles with the quick release. Corona chinex brushes for latex and coronal ox hair for oil. The nap on the roller depends on what you are rolling. Smooth walls we use 1/2 inch nap mostly. Corona has some good micro fiber roller covers if you want no texture. 5/8” nap. And we only use 9” roller covers.
@@zeusclan8999 just saying, I didn’t know that when I started painting. I’m still learning and trying new techniques and new tools, brushes, rollers, scaffolds, etc….
Why do professionals only use 9 inch rollers and not larger size rollers? Doesn't it take more effort and time, since you need to load up the roller more and make more movements to roll the paint out?
no lie i do this. 😳 definitely with a much smaller roller but... it lets you get a more even distribution of paint on a section cause you spread it all out on the first roll instead of slowly running out as you move along.
It's called a 5 in 1, just a little putty knife/scraper with a half circle cut on the side. They're sold at most stores that have tools for pretty cheap
Start the V on an upward stroke not down or excess paint falls off the roller . Do NOT bend your back that little bit use a longer pole or you will be walking stooped in a short amount . In case you are wondering I’m a 3rd gen painter
I painted our walls a few times and I'd start with a stripe left to right (like his V) which acted to spread out the excess paint like he does but I wonder if the downward V is better. I'll have to try that next time.
True. It is fast forward on the video. It is also true, logically, his methods with the V and his use of the scraper to clean up the rollers. Thanks for sharing. Genius!
I was always told to make sure your cutting in doesn't dry out or you will see join, you should cut in about six feet then use roller to paint the wall above the cutting in .you then you continue round walls every six feet, is this true?
Also bear in mind that it all depends what kind of products he is using. If he is painting over silk or eggshell ,he can go long way with only 1 dip of the roller :)
The hardest, most cointer-intuitive, thing I ever learned about painting is that when doing the edging you use a big brush with lots of paint as opposed to a small brush with very little. Game changer,...but scary.
For all those who are wondering what roller he's using, cause I use the exact same one. It's the purdy 18" with a 3 quarter inch nap, and yes they're a game changer compared to your standard roller, You'd never be able to achieve this technique
I want to see someone who isn't use to that and see them trying to roll a vaulted ceiling with an 18 3/4 nap roller lol that shit will kill your shoulders hah. Been doing it far to long to know :)
Rolling paint on a tad faster isn't going to slash time off the job, especially if you wind up having to clean spatter and touch up from going too fast. What takes long isn't the rolling part anyway, it's the masking and hand painting all the molding.
