May 01, 2006
Basement: Primed & Ready!
Ready for more paint, that is!
Yep. I rented a sprayer ($82, Home Depot) for the day and did 3500 sqft of coverage, including the full basement and ceiling for primer plus 2 additional ceiling coats of colored paint.
Turns out that Lavender Twilight is so light compared to our other colors it almost looks white...except for when it's against a white wall...which it never will be...so I needn't have bothered...except that we'd always know it was there...
I'm confident that a competent paint sprayer person could do an entire new house in 1 day with this machine. Which also explains why everything is white on white. Verrrry easy to do with a sprayer on top of white textured walls!
Anyway, way too much sprayback and splash to do the walls with the sprayer, so we're doing the walls all by hand. However, with my UltraLight Orange Peel Texture (tm) it's been a breeze to add paint. I can *almost* get away with one coat. Sighhh.... And no taping since it's all unfinished. Even the ceiling edges go fine with one of those wheelie brushes that run along the edge so nicely.
Here's the textured and primed basement!
On the set of "Color Me Heaven!"
Just like our eyes, the camera wants to color balance and find "white" and does so... our lavender twilight becomes straight white. Which, mostly, it is I guess.
The bat cave is now caved in, as it were!
Finished walls. Primed. Very exciting! The paint hits next, and you'll never guess what color we've decided to go with :-)))))
So far, *unfinished* painting is the way to go. Easy as pie. No worries about drips and the fact that the sprayer gets paint *everywhere*. Yes. Everywhere.
Just as a sidenote. Using the sprayer is obnoxiously easy. It does have a relatively wide spray, so isn't great after the primer and ceiling are finished, in my opinion. Which is why we are rolling the walls.
Also, cleanup is a pain. Whatever you do, cover the damn machine with plastic or rags to keep paint spray from settling on it, and make sure to clean it up pronto. Even then? Cleanup took longer than the 2 ceiling coats I did combined. The worst/hardest/messiest part of the whole job! And cover everything else, too. Paint dust floats around and gets on doors, windows, anything nearby.
Posted by BilFish at May 1, 2006 07:35 AM