Hi -

I am painting the ceiling one shade darker (gold) than the vertical walls.

The walls and ceilings are textured. The point where the ceiling meets the vertical wall (18 feet up ) is not perfectly straight (it's kind of bumpy) due to the texture stuff, so the edge tool with the little rollers doesn't work very well. Using paint tape to achieve a cleaner edge is useless as far as I can tell because paint seeps underneath it due to the texture. The point where the 2 colors of paint meet needs to look more even. Any tips?

TIA!

 

When I had to cut-in a wall next to a popcorn ceiling, I would find a piece of scrap baseboard several feet long with an angle cut on one end and I would put the point in a corner at the ceiling and pull it along the joint to the next corner. I did this on every wall I was going to paint in the room. Dragging the thin wood along the joint line will knock off any popcorn or smooth any small irregularities in the joint. Don't push so hard that you break thru the paper.
Sounds like you'll have to do this from a ladder or scaffolding, so just keep the piece of wood with you and run it along the joint just before you paint it. Thinking about it, a large phillips screwdriver or short dowel will work as well.

 

Yep, and it sounds like its time to get rid of the pad-painter, and get handy with a brush.

 

My husband has been doing the work from an extension ladder. He doesn't like it very much.

Thank you for your help!

 

I'm handy with the brush. I can't climb the ladder, though and I'm not ready to learn. My husband can climb the ladder (barely), but isn't particularly handy with the brush. I'll tell him that the faster he learns, the less trips up the ladder he'll have to make. Yeah. That's what I'll do.

Mom
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