How To Mask a Room Up With Wood Floors For Spray Painting

How to mask a room up with wood floors ready for spray painting. Here Im masking up a room ready to spray using floor protection, brown paper tape and polythene.

The reason I sprayed the walls and ceiling is because I needed to be finished in one day. The quickest area to paint by hand was the woodwork, it would have taken me alot longer on my own to 2 coat walls and ceilings in 4 big rooms. So I masked off the floors which would need protecting how ever you chose to paint.

Every job is different and its about working effiecently. This way had me finished in a fraction of the time and alot less stress on the body.

Any questions please let me know in the comments. Thanks for watching.

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[SCL]

Nice. I'm going through these spray painting video as I been wanting to do up my study while I work from home. I never painted anything before so thanks for the video 👍🏻👍🏻

[jamiedorsey]

To all the DIYers. Notice when he's cleaning up that he's always standing on the plastic or a tarp. Even after the paint is dried the dust will stick to your shoes and track on the wood floors. You can also pull up a corner then take off your shoes and avoid stepping on dirty plastic.

Simple idea but its easy to overlook.

[Steve_]

I usually have my helper back rolling the walls and ceilings after I spray them. I spray the walls, trim, and baseboards all in one shot if I’m painting everything in a room 1 color. I prefer to have stippling on the walls and ceiling and no brush strokes in the trim if I can avoid it.

[TymoPaints]

Thanks for the video. Great tips greeting from California

[laurajane]

Great video on how to mask a room for spraying

[mba]

Top video! Already watched it 3 times 😊

[justinharms]

Great vid....Just a use an extension wand.... it’ll save your back there buddy...:)

[jeffsstuff]

Great video! I'm preparing to paint 1 wall in our mudroom/entry room off the garage. I built a "Hall Tree" (Built-in bench & overhead shelf to hand coats) and installed primed MDF board and batten on the wall. There are so many transitions and I want it to look smooth so I decided to spray it. I had to pull off some of the floor trim when building it and installed new trim. The new floor trim will be white and the 1 wall with board and batten, shelving and some of the bench (everything that is not stained or is floor trim) will be gray.

I've started taping and masking but I'm struggling with how to proceed. I've been planning to add a small, thin bead of clear caulk to paint and then immediately remove in the areas that aren't being painted (to get a laser-straight line per "The Idaho Painter) but I don't know how to do that when I need 2 coats of paint (or 1 coat primer on the bare wood and 2 coats paint) without pulling the paint off with the masking.

I'm planning to hang plastic to create a kind of spray booth to prevent overspray from hitting the other walls in the room.

I just filmed a short 30-second video showing the project. (Masking and taping not done) I would love to get any advice/tips you could recommend.

[dadonthetube]

Very nice video. The music made it perfect. Would have been cool to see a nice after as well.

[garethdavies]

when spraying do the trim first then walls then ceiling ... oppersite to rolling and brush 👍

[Wienermans]

Nice work. I've been doing it the same way for close to 30 years.
Just wondering if you use extension poles?
Frankly all the up and down movements have fried my back.

Nice to see another painter doing it right.

[arronrichards]

Class work. Thats like us masking up a room ready to spray. Find it alot faster doing it this way some times and finish the wood by hand

[juansaydeflores]

great video.. you should post the tools you used in the description

[kevinhamling]

Hey man,
I've just stumbled across your channel.
What an awesome job you do no mess.
Q.
Do yo have a video on the type of sprayer you use .
✌️ Peace from Melbourne Australia.

[stuartcareless]

What's the blue floor covering used. LOve these videos

[farbraum-innenausbau]

Great Video Mate. Keep up the good work.

[janae]

love the video!!! simple and to the point... i know i can look at other videos... but some people just take to long to get to the point! BUT could you do a video on how to spray a room properly? use a sprayer properly... shall i say! thank you

[kamranaziz]

Hiya hope great videos, can i just ask why the 2nd coat? I thought spraying is applied thicker than rollers?

[davidgary]

I’m in the states and I’m wondering where I could find the polyethylene that you used on your flooring. Great video. Makes me want to spray something.

[chrispollard]

Hi, why spray the walls first and not the ceiling, is there a reason for this ? wouldn't do it that way round if using conventional method, ie, brush roller, wanting to know as i'am just about to start using sprayers after 37 years doing it the old fashion way, cheers