Hey you that knows everything about painting. Student here and my employer is paying me to repaint. I’m very much a beginner (painted like 3 times in my life). They know it and they still let me do it (to give me some hours during the summer break).
I’m done with the primer and boy is it ugly… Do you know if everything looks ok? Do you see something painfully wrong? And if you have some tips and tricks, I’m happy to hear them!
Pictures I took of my “masterpiece” : https://imgur.com/a/GzwH6Wb
Btw, if this isn’t the right community to ask this, please let me know!
Looks fine. As others have said, check with your hands. The fact that you’ve prepared the walls at all means you’re doing a better job than average.
Primer nearly always looks blotchy. In simple terms, paint is colour granules suspended in goo, mixed with magic.
The actual wall paint has lots of colour granules, and some magic to make it lay flat in neat planes of colour. The primer is going to get covered up, so no point in adding all that colour - it only includes enough colour granules for you to “see where you’ve been”. Its main job is putting down a layer of special goo, which sticks to both the original surface and the paint.
The important bit is that some primer covers everything, so its layer of goo can form a sort of film that the paint will stick to nicely. If the primer is a bit thicker or thinner in places, it will be more or less opaque, looking blotchy, but it will still work fine.
After that, 3 thin coats is better than 1 thick coat.
Different colours have different opacities. A light yellow colour might need 6 coats to look “properly flat”. A dark blue may be finished with only 2 coats.
Whites, greys, blacks and dark colours have better coverage, on average, than pale colours.
I have only one tip: use quality paint and rollers. Here in Europe we have Sigma and Sikkens. I don’t know what they have where you are from. But get the expensive stuff from a professional paint store. Don’t go to the DIY store. Even the expensive brandcstuff from most DIY stores is crap compared to professional stuff. It will be a lot more expensive but the good stuff is soooo much easier to work with. You will paint much faster, it will look much better and you need less layers.
I painted my entire house with Sikkens Alpha Rezisto. It’s washable, which is great since I gave pets and kids.
Primer looks fine. Can’t really go wrong with that unless you put some effort in. The key are the edges. I see you’ve taped them off nicely, but it might still leak underneath. It’s hard to get good, straight edges, but a very important skill as a professional imho.
It doesn’t matter how it looks, since it’s going to be covered up. What does matter is how it feels. Run your hand over it. As long as it feels smooth, you’re good.
Primer always looks like shit.
The real work with painting is the prep. Everything looks good to me. I wo old cover that spilt unit.
I don’t see anything really wrong with that primer, but more to the point, I can’t tell you how good it really is because you don’t judge the quality of primer with your eyes - you judge it with your hands.
Try it. You’ll get it.
Man that looks like shit. Worst paint job ever. Have you tried not sucking? Smoke some more weed.
Source: painter.
Just kidding try some paint.
What are concerned about exactly? Im not seeing anything red flags here.
Looks painted to me but you painted 4 times more than me.
Primer is not meant to look good. I don’t know if my resolution is not high enough or what but it looks fine to me. Im not big on tape personally as it takes up to much time.
Just put the fucking paint on the wall and get paid.
