One of the most common ways to finish a ceiling when renovating a room is to paint it.
The most common, economical and simpleThe option of finishing the ceiling is painting. This is due to the large variety of paints offered, the combination of good quality material with reasonable prices and ease of finishing. It is worth considering the answer to the question: how to paint the ceiling with your own hands?
Preparatory work
To get a perfectly painted ceiling, you must first carry out careful preparatory work. This includes:
- selection of quality tools;
- choosing the appropriate paint;
- correct surface treatment.
Painting the ceiling with your own hands will not take place without the necessary materials and tools for the job. These include:
Tools needed for painting the ceiling.
- paint;
- primer;
- putty;
- Large and small rollers with long handles;
- a set of brushes of different sizes;
- containers for puttying, priming and paint;
- spatulas (narrow and wide);
- sandpaper;
- shkuroter;
- a brush on the long handle;
- mesh abrasive (if necessary);
- ladder;
- protective suit with a headdress;
- glasses.
The modern construction market offersa variety of water-based paints suitable for any room. For interior decoration of dry rooms, acrylic, water-based, and silicone paints are most suitable. When renovating rooms with high humidity: in the kitchen, bathroom, toilet - you can use silicate paint, which contains antiseptic additives. Silicone paint is of very high quality, combines the positive properties of acrylic and silicate paints, but has a fairly high cost. All of them are environmentally friendly, safe, vapor-permeable, have virtually no odor, and are easy to clean with soapy water. Return to contents</a>
Preparing the base of the ceiling for painting
Painting the ceiling begins with preparing its base. The specified work can be divided into several stages:
- cleaning from old coating;
- putty;
- primer.
First of all, it is necessary to clean the surface.ceiling from the old coating: wash off the chalk whitewash, remove wallpaper, paint, knock off tiles, etc. After that, its evenness, presence of cracks, differences, bulges are checked. Considering that painting the ceiling implies a perfectly flat surface, then, if necessary, it should be leveled using putty. In case of large defects, it is necessary to use starting and finishing putty. The putty mixture is diluted in a prepared container, using a wide and narrow spatula, applied to the surface. After drying, the finishing putty is carefully cleaned with a sander and sandpaper.
It is necessary to apply it to the ceiling using a rollerprimer. To improve the adhesive properties of the materials used, it is necessary to prime the entire ceiling surface. Before priming, the surface is cleaned of dust using a brush with a long handle. For the above work, a deep penetrating primer is used, completely ready for use, of good quality. Using a roller, it is applied in an even layer to the entire surface of the ceiling. After the primer has dried, a second primer layer is applied in a similar manner. Only after high-quality preparation will the paint lie evenly on the surface. The room where the repair is being done should be warm and dry. There should be no drafts. Now we need to move on to a direct consideration of how to paint the ceiling according to all the rules. Return to the table of contents</a>
The technology of painting the ceiling with a roller and brush
Schemes of movement of painting tools when painting the ceiling: a - with a roller; b - with a brush. Painting the ceiling, as noted above, can be done independently in 2 different ways:
- traditional (using a roller and brush);
- with a vacuum cleaner or a spray gun.
The first one is considered the most commonpainting method. How to paint a ceiling with a roller and brush? Painting work should be done in a special protective suit, headgear and glasses. First of all, paint the corners and hard-to-reach places with a brush: near pipes, decorative elements, lamps, etc. First, paint the corners of the room opposite the entrance door with a brush. After that, paint is applied with a brush along the entire perimeter of the ceiling in the form of a strip approximately 5 cm wide. This is necessary so that later, when working with a roller, you do not spoil the joints of the walls with the ceiling and the corners. The main painting of the ceiling is done with a roller with a long handle or using a stepladder. A small amount of paint is poured into a previously prepared wide container. After dipping the roller in paint, it is necessary to roll it a little in the container so that the paint is distributed evenly. Its excess can be removed with a brush.
Ceiling painting scheme:1 − surface priming, 2 − preparing paint for work, 3 − painting corners, 4, 5 − first vertical and second horizontal layers of paint, 6 − cleaning the working tool from paint. To make the ceiling surface flawless, it is necessary to apply at least 2 layers of paint. To avoid streaks, the ceiling should be painted perpendicular to the window during the first layer. The second layer of paint is applied to the surface in a direction perpendicular to the first layer. This is the only way to avoid streaks on the ceiling. Before applying each subsequent layer of paint, the previous one should dry well. The mechanism of painting with a roller is simple: a small amount of paint is applied to the surface in parallel stripes, overlapping each other. It is important to avoid drips and folds during work. The area to be painted should be carefully inspected from different angles for defects in the paint in order to eliminate them immediately. After finishing the work, the ceiling painted with your own hands should be dried well. Brushes and rollers are washed in kerosene, turpentine, white spirit, and then in warm water with soap. Return to the table of contents</a>
The technology of painting the ceiling with a vacuum cleaner or spray gun
Now we can consider how to paint the ceiling using a spray gun or vacuum cleaner. This method of painting is more productive: it takes less time and effort, and the quality of the work does not suffer.
Scheme of painting the ceiling using a spray gun.For work, vacuum cleaners are used that have a special function that allows you to paint ceilings. Many domestic vacuum cleaners have this function. A spray gun is a special device designed to paint various surfaces. First, paint is prepared, it must be diluted with water to the desired consistency. Then the paint is placed in a regular can, on which a sealing ring is installed, with the help of which it is connected to the vacuum cleaner. The spray gun usually has a special container for pouring paint. Then the spray distance of the paint stream is selected. Usually it is about 70 cm. It is important to paint the ceiling from the same distance, with smooth movements, without lingering in one place for a long time, so that there are no smudges. For ease of work, you can use a stepladder. If you follow the listed simple rules for painting the ceiling in this way, the surface is covered with an even and thin layer of paint. Thus, having paint and the necessary tools, following the recommendations for painting ceilings listed above, you can cope with the work yourself and as a result get the perfect ceiling surface.
