How to Paint Ceilings & Walls with a Paint sprayer
Introduction
Painting with age-old tools like the brushes and rollers does look good in a lot of videos and it’s soothing for the soul but is very tiring in practice. Can you picture yourself painting a huge ceiling or big walls with your hand going up and down with a roller with consistency? Let us tell you it is not an easy task.
On the other hand painting with a sprayer is much easier, time efficient and a bit fun to do. So if you have not hired professional painters to paint your ceilings and walls, this article will help you.
How Sprayers Help you Paint ceilings and walls efficiently?
Spray painting is faster and efficient compared to using paintbrushes and rollers. It also saves you from climbing ladders to reach a particular paint spot.
The only downside to spray painting is over-spraying and not realizing it at the moment, and second, ending up using a lot of paint than was needed.
Spray painting is messy however and we recommend you to paint when the rooms are empty, however, if you do not have the option of emptying the room, the next best thing you can do is to cover everything with tarps, use a lot of masking tape to protect your doors, etc.
Steps to Paint the Ceilings and Walls with a paint sprayer
- Have a paint sprayer and paints ready
- The first step to spray painting a surface is to have a paint sprayer. You can rent it, borrow it from a friend or buy it. You need to know what color paint you need on your ceiling and walls. You need to have paint thinners etc.
- You might use a titan impact 440 to paint efficiently, it has an amazing spray system and is ideal for interior or exterior painting jobs. Get lacquer paints or water paints, whatever the project needs, and prepare your sprayer with all the right stuff to begin your project.
- Prepare the Surface to Be Painted
- It is extremely important to prepare the surface for painting. This required you to clean the surface with a dry cloth to get rid of all the dirt or anything that can cause lumps on the surface of the wall when covered with paint.
- If there are any cracks or damage on the walls or ceiling, it is better to fix that before you start your painting.
- Prepare your Painting equipment
- Sometimes the paints you are using can be too thick to be used with your sprayer. In that case, you would need to use a thinner to improve the consistency of the paint.
Some sprayers are compatible with certain paints, while others are not. So you need to make sure that the paint is easily used by the sprayer.
- Wear Protective Gear
before starting the painting, it’s best your wear gloves, wear protective gear, wear a mask to protect yourself from inhaling fumes. A lot of painters wear worn-out clothes that they can risk getting messed up in the process of painting.
Spray Painting the walls
Start painting from one corner of the wall and work your way across the wall. To have a smooth and consistent result you need to hold the sprayer from a distance which is usually 300mm.
You must angle your sprayer in just the right position according to the surface you are painting. So if you are starting with the corners, you should angle the spray accordingly so you don’t end up messing the connecting wall. Also, a good idea to cover the walls connected to your surface.
- Spray Painting the Ceiling
- This is a tough one, but if you know the right techniques and have the right tools you would be able to spray easily.
- The first step for you to do is to mask the upper walls to avoid the drips and fallouts. Like walls, spray paint smoothly, starting with the corner of the ceiling and taking it across to the other side. Try not to overlap strokes. Do one coat and then when it’s dry then start with the other coat.
- Make sure the pressure is right for painting as well. It must not be too high or too low. Plus the consistency of the sprayer matters. If you are using titan impact 440 you will be able to manage the pressure of the sprayer as well as use different tips to enable paint patterns on the wall.
- Clean and Wrap up your Equipment at the end of the end
- With paint sprayers, you must clean your sprayer at the end of the day otherwise you will end up with paint getting dried up.