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Interior Painting Tips

Bob talks with Brian Miller of Miller & Sons Painting about the painting being done. One of the painters is cutting a straight line where the two surfaces meet. Whenever a home's interior is painted, corners like these should be filled in before rolling paint on the wall. The lines that are cut in at the ceiling and corners should be two to three inches from the edge so that the roller can roll into the wet paint for an even coat. Sherwin-Williams Duration, a self-priming latex paint designed for one-coat coverage, is being used throught the interior. Eighteen-inch rollers are used to get a smooth finish and decrease the lap marks. They are using a half-inch nap to put more paint on the wall. More information