How to paint

[Gp G.]

Hi,

I like to paint interior walls. I heard some paint sprayer which makes job easy than rollers. Can you please advise how to accomplish this. Can you recommend relevant paint sprayers that work well. Please advise

[JD Martin]

Unless you have a new construction house I would pass on the interior paint sprayer. You need to do a superb job taping off everything to use a sprayer indoors as mist and overspray gets on everything. If you're just talking about painting a few rooms here and there, a roller and 2" cut in brush will take care of 95% of anything you'll come across. If you want to roll faster get the 18" roller and a bucket mount paint grid. Also a collapsible roller handle extension. Then start watching Youtube. You'll see professionals get all the way to the baseboard and all the way to the ceiling without ever lifting the roller, they just adjust their hands and arms as they're rolling to do nice, long even strokes. Guys that know what they are doing can roll off a 12x12 room in 15 minutes and cut in a typical room in less than an hour. I'm not a professional and I can do an average 12x12 room by myself in under 2 hours. Learn how to cut in without taping off or needing a shield is a huge time saver.