Today is 7/3/2022 - happy holiday weekend y'all! Unfortunately for me, we are deep into the painting part of our house project and not everything has gone well.
Naturally, since the Mr. is super handy and since we have always painted our houses ourselves - we once again opted to paint our house once construction was completed. This in and of itself is not the problem. We have a system: He does the rolling, I do the cutting in/ edge work and mostly that works out swimmingly.
But this time...this time things took a turn. You see, I have more PTO from work right now so I took a day off to help paint the house while the Mr. worked AND we decided to try using a paint sprayer for the first time ever to paint our interior ceilings. Oops. You see what happened here? We have the edge painter (who typically only interacts with an actual paint-brush) now using a foreign paint application method to paint large areas of ceiling.
The Mr. had used the paint sprayer previously to paint the exterior of our first home; he hadn't ever used it for interior paint purposes.
So, what happened? Well, when you apply paint with a paintbrush as I am used to, the goal is: coverage without drips - that is the sweet spot. However, if you are painting a ceiling with a paint sprayer excellent coverage also means you have probably applied too much paint...and what happens when you apply to much paint to a ceiling? The paint pools and cracks.
I swear, I felt like I just crashed my new car. We had literally just paid thousands to have professionals mud, tape, and texture our house and then I come in and destroy the ceilings about 24 hours later. Le Sigh.
Ok - so, where do we go from here, what is the solution? This is one of the sadder parts of the experience for me -- there is no easy fix. The solution is basically that I had to use a putty knife and scrape the too-much-paint cracked bits off the ceiling. After clearing those away, the ceiling essentially has these "pock mark" areas that are devoid of paint and texture.
The next step is to build back the missing paint areas by filling them in with a filler compound. Once those spots dry 24 hours later, you get to sand them. After the bad bits are sanded, you carefully apply a sanded paint to re-establish texture and you hope for the best.
The process is both time consuming, and frustrating because there is no guarantee that we will get all the "pock mark" spots out of our ceiling. We also noticed that the kind of ceiling paint we have been using has a slight glint to it even though the paint is labelled as flat. So, we are also switching up the paint to an "ultra flat" in hopes that lack-of-sheen will help to hide shadows of trouble areas.
I do however, have 2 positive pieces of news with regard to the problem. First, the big raised ceilings in the new addition of the upper floor were not over-sprayed and they look good. Second, there were not very many trouble spots in our lower level (only like 3 or 4), and our drywaller, who came back to site for something unrelated re-added texture down there. Now, you'd never know there was an issue in that part of the house.
This leaves us to repair the flat-ceiling portion of our main living level. Will keep you posted on how successful our solution ends up being.
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