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Hello ladies and gentlemen,

Today I primed an entire house, walls and ceilings with two coats, primarily because the first coat was sprayed with little pressure and there was overlap marks showing. Turned up the pressure and did a second run to fix the problem. Took a lunch break while the prime dried and came back and I sprayed white flat paint on my ceilings and did not back roll. Where light was visible, I could see some spots were "wetter" than others. I would come back and spray some more in the "drier" spots. I know back rolling would fixed this problem but I did not have the equipment and its a rent house that is kind of far from everything so I just went with it.

I am wondering if once its all and dry everything would look uniform. What do you guys think? I am afraid that its not going to look the same throughout the ceilings since I didn't back roll to spread out the paint and give it an even coat everywhere. My neighbor said that once its dried up everything shall look the same.

On another note, is it possible that since its new sheet rock and I did not back roll, I could have problems down the road with the paint flaking? Seen someone on here mentioned that his paints was falling down his ceiling for not back rolling. Note that this sheetrock is textured with knockdown texture.
 

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Wear a hardhat tomorrow when you enter the room. The paint will probably fall off in 1 big sheet at anytime.

All kidding aside, I've sprayed thousands of new texture knockdown ceilings, never back-rolled, and they look perfect. Also, better to just spray evenly and don't go looking for light spots. Spraying over paint that's 1/2 way dry is what will make it look bad. Cross hatch spray your coats.
 

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One thing about texture. It almost always dries out evenly. The latex paint tends to soak up into the texture even if it takes an hour, 5 hours, sometimes (depending on humidity) a day, but, in the end, it ends up looking just fine. I roll most of mine and there are times I can see the lap marks from my roller and it looks horrendous, but, after a few hours, the marks are gone and the ceiling is one, big panorama of white.
 

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One thing about texture. It almost always dries out evenly. The latex paint tends to soak up into the texture even if it takes an hour, 5 hours, sometimes (depending on humidity) a day, but, in the end, it ends up looking just fine. I roll most of mine and there are times I can see the lap marks from my roller and it looks horrendous, but, after a few hours, the marks are gone and the ceiling is one, big panorama of white.
That's good, this is what I was hopping for. I haven't went back to the house yet to see the results but I will tomorrow! Hopefully everything looks good.
 
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