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How to Paint a Ceiling

With the right tools and a little preparation, a ceiling can be painted without difficulty.

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Bucket Ceiling roller Drop cloth Goggles Hawk Industrial cleaner Ladder Latex paint Paint scraper Paintbrush, synthetic bristle sash Plaster knife Primer Sanding block Sandpaper Spackle Sponge mop

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How to Paint a Ceiling

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" Ceilings are no harder to paint the walls if you go about it the right way. -- now. First empty the room furniture. Anything you can't move out of the room moved to the senator and covered with drop close. Just like walls the ceiling must be clean to remove all traces of soot grease and -- Professional used an industrial cleaner called tri sodium phosphate or TSB. Now it's often easier and safer to use a substitute. The easiest way to scrub the ceiling is to use a brand new sponge up with the TSB solution. -- in the sponge mop out until the sponge is just there. And scrub the ceiling as you -- floor. Were evenly across the ceiling. Scrubbing about four square feet at a time. After watching the surfaces should be rinse with water and allowed to dry completely. Otherwise the cleaning solution will interfere with the new paint -- to the ceiling. This ceiling is being repainted. Because a leaking roof just about had been repaired. Before we can paint the -- We have to repair the area where the paint -- If you find signs of water damage cracks in the ceiling. Always find -- repair the cause of the damage before you repaint. Otherwise the old damage is sure to reappear. First scrape away the loose paint with a sharp paint scraper. And sand the damaged area with -- medium sandpaper. If you don't have a sanding block the sandpaper should be attached to a flat surface like a block Award so you don't count the surface. With a sanding complete. Opening can of spackle and put the spackle on hawk. And stir stirring the spackle softens. It makes it easier to apply now -- the spackle to the damaged area with a five inch plaster knife. The wide belief makes it easier to feather the spackle over the surrounding ceiling. Some brands of spackle have the added advantage of changing from a color pigment to white to show that they drive when the spackle is dry. Lightly sand the surface was fine sandpaper. We're -- circular motion with the sandpaper attached to a flat surface such as a block of ward. Paint the repaired areas with a well stirred white primer and allowed to draw all barriers should be -- before their paint it. The ceiling repaired and prepared. It's time for a ceiling paint. Use a high quality flat latex paint. Stirred the paint thoroughly. Using a synthetic bristle sash brush. Cut an area four inches around the perimeter of the ceiling. The angled bristles of the sash brush. Will allow you to paint right up to the edge of the wall without haven't mask at first works slowly and carefully and you'll save yourself all the time it would have taken a -- the edges and then remove the masking. With -- all the edges done. Use at three -- or half inch roller to roll the rest of the -- There are ceiling rollers that have -- to help catch falling splatters. Start in the corner that's furthest away from the door to the room. Make it W about three feet in size for the paint. And then continue to fill the area. Rolls slowly. Otherwise you'll splatter paint all of yourself and the walls. The ceilings -- Use an extension on the roller to extend your reach. Depending on your situation. You may have to apply a second coat get an even finish but soon the newly painted ceiling will be brightening your room with a fresh new look."

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