Best way to paint a wall near where it meets the ceiling?

[alkemyst]

The problem with the pads is they don't hold a lot of paint. If you have high ceilings you will be dealing with going up and down ladders constantly or risking carrying the 'tray' on the top of the ladder.

For most ceilings I use a 4" brush and taper in to it. Once you get a line going it's pretty easy to go 3-4' each pass and put enough paint on that the 'line' is not visible from where it's rolled.

Those pads work good in window sills where you don't want to tape, but I like using a brush or roller still for some texture.

 

[oogabooga]

Most of the painters I worked with didn't want to do interior jobs. The amount of prep work to do a professional quality job wasn't worth it to a lot of them. Others who did do interiors focused on really high end things (especially faux finishes) and just charged that rate for any type of interior job. For most people painting on their own would be far cheaper.

I use one of those square pads with guide wheels on one side. You dip it in paint, swipe away, and you're done in 10 seconds, Just don'y get paint on the wheels.

I've used these, they work to a point. They are certainly a lot easier and faster than brushing. You can't move too quickly and as Fritzo said, do not get paint on the wheels (or you'll leave paint lines on the guiding surface).

A really good job would probably require brushing and/or protecting the other surface. Sprayer Jobs required taping off the surface, but for my own home, I would just use that edger.

 

[EliteRetard]

I dunno, I'm pretty cheap. Can't see myself paying someone to paint such a small room.

I really didn't find it all that hard to do. It took me about an hour to tape the baseboard, window frame, door, tape the outlets, and mask off the closet.

Painting took me a few hours, but after I had rolled it, I found a few spots here in there that I missed (I could still see specks of white) once the paint dried. So I'd have to go back and touch up.

But going back to your original question, there was a Groupon here locally back in June for $79 where a company would paint one room up to 12' x 12' and up to 10ft ceilings (you had to provide the paint). They said it was a $210 value.

Yeah I was gonna say that room probably $200+ if you provided the paint (otherwise youd probably get hit for $3-350). I think I can safely say that anybody doing a room like that for under 100$ normally is going to be a bad painter.

 

[Pardus]

Just got done painting my entire place. Used:

two gallons of primer, $10/gallon

4 gallons of truevalue paint, $23 per gallon

$5.00 at walmart, these rollers work great

Got this for paint shield for $3.00 at walmart

Got these for $5.00 at home depot last year

 

[EliteRetard]

I'm going to throw this out there one more time, incase anybody missed it.

You can build your own stilts fairly easy, which makes it much faster/easier to reach the ceiling than a clumsy ladder. Something as simple as scrap 2x4's about the length of your shoes...stack em and screw them together (I use 4 since I'm tall). Mine I ran 2 velcro straps (one front and back through the middle of the pile) and use that to wrap/attatch them to my shoes...rope or tape if youd like would work too.

If you've got a bunch of old phone books and know how to tear them (its actually fairly easy) you could probably use them to stack and brag

 

[Quakester]

Learned this trick from a pro:

Caulk where the ceiling meets the wall. The caulk smooths out the surface so you get a perfect line every time. Reason is the textures on both surfaces are high and low points. Good luck running any kind of a straight line. The pros spend about 10 minutes caulking while saving hours painting.

Another solution is to use crown moulding but that won't save any time, lol. But it does look great.

True story.