So we just cut the walls in so our next step in painting the bathroom is to roll them out
so let's get everything that we need necessary for rolling the walls. We have a roller tray,
a roller, and the roller cover. This is a half inch neck for a semi-smooth surface.
We are going to put it right on to the roller and then what we want to do is we want to
do a little trick to get rid of any of the lint that might be on it from the factory.
There is a little bit of lint that comes off and we want to catch that so it doesn't end
up on our walls. This is what we do. Take the painter's tape and wrap it around all
the way up, like a barber's pole, keep the whole thing tight. Now we are just going to
rip it off. There we go and now you can see all that lint that caught on your tape would
have been on your walls so when you walk into someone's house and you see that the walls
are kind of hairy that's why, not a good look. So now let's pour the paint into the tray,
just enough to form a nice little pool. That should be good for now. We don't have too
big of an area to paint. We want to always take our brush and catch the drips. It looks
pretty good. You want to basically get it into the paint just enough to get it wet and
then we are rolling off the excess on this ramp part right here. So now this is loaded
with paint and now we are going to begin. We want to get it right into our cut, the
paint that we cut. So you want to get right up in there and get up as close as you possibly
can. You want to use this edge rather than that edge to run along the edge when you cut
because you can get in just a little bit closer. We are just going to get the paint on there.
Get right up to the edge as close as we can, probably about a half inch away from our cut
edge is where you will want to go. So that way you will roll right over your brush strokes
and when it dries in you are not going to see the brush strokes at all and it will be
a very pleasing appearance. Now this is a small area and typically when you are working
in a larger space you want to apply the paint on in the configuration of a V or a W or some
sort of zigzag stroke and then you kind of go back into it and just even it out. So where
we have tape and plastic we can just pull it right on to there, don't worry. So that
concludes the rolling of the wall for now. There is always two coats recommended for
the wall so what you want to do is you want to now set this aside and I'll show you how
to do just that. Load it up with paint so it doesn't dry out, nice and evenly wet, then
you want to take a plastic bag or some of your plastic drop cloths even saran wrap and
you just want to wrap it up nice and tight and you are going to make sure that the plastic
is snug right into the wet paint and you just fold it up pretty good. If you are going to
have it waiting overnight, I recommend sticking it in the refrigerator to keep it nice and
fresh. At this point you can either keep it on your roller or if you are going to be rolling
another room or another area you are going to remove it like this. You take a broom stick
or a roller handle and you give it a tape and it just is a quick release, comes right
off.