eep Ok.....here's my "Hybrid technique" that I often tell our Customers. Not trying to "Toot my Horn", but my walls at home are flawless....🤓😁
* I work in 3' wide sections. 4' is too wide.
* Assuming 8' walls, use a fully loaded White-Dove roller-cover, & start at the top left.
* Use the "Slanted N or W" pattern to spread out the paint in a 2' high rectangle.
* Load the cover for EACH block in the column.
* Overall pattern: you're "filling-in" a vertical column of 4 2' high x 3' wide "blocks"!
* Here's the REAL difference-maker..... after the column is filled in, bring your roller immediately to the top left, & do a light, continuous "Sweep" down to the bottom.
* Lightly lift off the roller at the bottom, & do another light top-down sweep. ALWAYS Top-to-bottom. Think of a plane taking-off here!
* Should be about 4 top-down sweeps per 3' column using a 9" cover.
2 things are happening here:
1) This technique "GETS ENOUGH PAINT" on the wall, without being too thick OR thin.
2) The vertical sweep is the REAL IMPORTANT part. You're evening-out the thick & thin areas....AND, more importantly, the paint is now "Leaning" the same way.
Modern paints start setting up fairly fast. Most TV commercials show people painting willy-nilly in the middle of the wall. I have to shake my head 🤔😬😬
This scattershot way of doing it leaves all kinds of varying thickness areas across a wall!! Plus, you get the visible "roller-path" when you go back 1 minute later to fill in a "thin spot". Why is this??? Because, the paint is a little more "set", leaning in a different direction, & also with a different thickness. You'll always see it....
Remember.....you asked.....🤓🤪😉
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