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Load the Roller with Paint

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HOW TO ROLL A WALL Tips painting walls with a roller. How to paint a room.

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What happens here

Submerge the 9-inch roller cover into the paint pan, allowing it to soak up a generous amount of paint. Roll it back and forth on the ribbed section of the pan to distribute the paint evenly across the entire surface of the nap, ensuring it's fully saturated but not dripping excessively.

Goal: Evenly saturate the roller cover with paint

Tools and materials

  • 3/8-inch White Dove Nap Roller Cover — Saturating with paint
  • 9-inch Roller Frame — Holding the roller cover while loading
  • Paint Pan — Holding paint and providing a surface to load the roller
  • Paint — Loading onto the roller

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a lot easier to reach into your pan. We also use pan liners. These are plastic liners or throwaway liners that you can just throw in the pan. When you're done at the end of the day, you can just throw the the liner out. And I'm going to load up my nap to lay out this wall. And I'm going to put the nap in the middle of the wall. I'm going roll it down, not all the way. And then roll it back up. Down. Now I'm going to spread the paint out up and

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