Introductions

 

You will get at least 2 different opinions on this.:yes: Pick one and go with it:whistling2:

 

i usually just go from top to bottom. unless it really makes a diff somehow.

 

Haven't we been 'here' before? I always like to engineer a job so that things dry in time for the next phase. If you leave trim to the end - you have to wait for coats to dry - that stinks. Do walls first - same thing. Put a coat on the trim - then in the mean time roll a coat on the walls, maybe that takes up your whole day. So that sets you up for second coat on the trim the next day. Then by the time you are done with the trim - go back to the first room - and start cutting in the all the walls you rolled the previous day. By the time you have done cutting - go back and re-roll the walls - then do a last 'dry' cut. Depending on how many are in my crew or what not dictates the order of how things go.

Got a couple of really unskilled guys and one really good painter? Throw the two unskilled guys to slop on paint on the trim - and give the skilled painter a small 9" roller to occupy his time, engineer the job such that when skilled painter is done rolling - the other two unskilled guys are finished. Perhaps on this job, because of your crew, instead of waiting for the trim to dry - have your skilled guy cut in the walls against the first coat of trim. Then split up the two unskilled guys - one to roll walls for the second coat - and another to only 'face' off the trim. Then the second day - shift the unskilled guys over to another job - and leave the skilled guy to cut in the outside edges of the trim - and wrap up a second 'dry' cut on the walls.

Every job is different - and there is an efficient 'path' that dictates how each job is done. There is no one singular right/correct way for a job to be done.

 

I always paint the trim first...

I usually do 2 coats on repaints..[90% of the time]

Day 1: [Walls]

Prep

Roll

Cut

Day 2: [Walls]

Cut

Roll the finish coat....

This method is used only when I can do the 2nd coat the next day..That way the mud won't flash...Otherwise I have to spot prime....And I always tape my baseboards.

 

A little this and little that. Ever job is different you know.

 

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I was thinking lately, should I prime before paint? When I come across a job that requires priming, I have all ways painted then prime. I'm not so happy with the results.
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I also always put the 2nd coat 1st. I get better coverage and better hide that way.

 

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That's where I'm going wrong.
I see it all now... some of it :blink:

 

I like to do the ceilings last....waaaaay easier :yes:

 

I hope your not serious.

 

Sometimes I get to the job and don't feel like doing anything.

 

That why I start my day with dinner then end it with breakfast. Work like a charm.

 

I see this thread turning into another wrong'un :yes: :thumbup:

 

The way you guys throw around "THANKS" makes it a basically meaningless statistic...

 

Thanks :thumbup:
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No! THANK YOU!

 

I'm gonna go make a cake!

 

Be sure to frost it before you bake it.

 

walls then trim...way ive always seen it done...but too each there own like stated..

 

Me usually trim then walls. But the job I start tomorrow and one earlier this summer we didn't put the finish coat on the base boards until last because the floors were being refinished. So it can be different every time.

 

Thanks Guys!

Yeah, points taken - every job is unique. I like the guy who said he primes last because he gets better coverage. Well done.

 

So, what do YOU think? What problems am I going to cause by doing it this way? And how do you do it?

This depends upon whether you live in the northern hemisphere, or the southern hemisphere.

If the water in your drain spins counter clockwise, paint the trim first.

If the water spins clockwise, paint the walls first.

If you live on the equator, the accepted method is to paint the walls and the trim at the same time.

This is due to a phenomenon known as the paintuinox. Being closer to the sun causes light to be diffused in such a manner that it is virtually impossible to discern where the wall and trim actually meet.

Painting the walls and the trim simultaneously creates a cosmic paradox which opens a rift in the space-time chrysanthemum, unveiling an invisible perfectly straight force-field that exists between all walls and trim in the entire universe.

The wall and trim paint will guide themselves along this force-field line in perfect synergy, creating the most perfect line, despite the hindrance of being to close to the sun.

All Jedi painters are aware of this mystical chymestry.

This is actually where the expression "flying to close to the sun" came from. It is a little known fact that Icarus was a house painter who lived on the equator. His inability to cut a straight line between trim and wall would drive him into fits of aerobatic rage, and eventually he flew to close to the sun, and burned off the bristles on his finest ox hair brush.

Just be sure to consult a local Shaman to guide you in the process, many men have tried and died in pursuit of this ancient ritual.

 

If you live on the equator, the accepted method is to paint the walls and the trim at the same time.

LC, Why does this happen to me every time I paint the walls and the trim at the same time. I hate it when they take me and keep poking me. Sometimes it hurts for days. I can never reminder the whole encounters.
I am on the west coast. Is this method only if I live on the equator? Have I crossed the cosmic paradox beyond space-time?

 

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This is getting worse than the Amber thread......

 

What amber thread? Is it worth it to read for the entertainment value?

 

It depends for me. Small job where I can't wait for dry times so much I do walls then trim. If it's larger though I like to work top to bottom. Crown, windows, and door casings first, then walls, then base. Reason being is I make cleaner cuts faster cutting wall into trim with the exception of baseboard which I cut cleaner faster into wall and don't have to worry as much about overspray.

 

This is how we do it also. I'll never understand how people think its easier to trim the wall last to the baseboard. Its so much easier to cut the wall into the base that when someone says the baseboard is fine dont paint it, I throw it in for free.

 

I'm thinking about more effective ways to do repaint projects. Traditionally I have always cut and painted the walls and then cut in the trim afterward. But upon reflection, it would seem more effective to paint the trim first, not bothering to cut in carefully. Once the trim is completed, then the walls can be cut and rolled in. This would eliminate the time-consuming issue of cutting in trim around freshly painted walls.

OMG! I think you've stumbled onto something! You may have changed the way the entire painting industry approaches...uh..??..uh....PAINTING!

 

WOW, you lot are a funny bunch. where the HELL is DaArch?

 

Still working on putting names to the million or so pics he took at the NGPP convention.

 

Every job is different - time constraints etc.

However, if it is a large interior repaint (several rooms/whole house)

remove wallpaper (see this too often not to mention)
prep all surfaces to be painted
paint ceilings
paint all trim, doors, windows except for the base board
paint walls
paint base

 

classic

 

Sologloss waterborne acrylic white trim and then 1 coat flat on the walls.

12'x12' sq. 10' high walls 3 windows with 6 pane double hung sashes.

5 hours.

I like trim first, then walls.