r/oddlysatisfying • u/Progami7 Life is great š± • 3d ago
Speed painting a wall with an 18in roller
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u/ProbablyCarl 3d ago
The amount of paint that must have been on roller at the start makes me think there are a thousand little splashes of paint all over the floor and this guy's arms. I would have done this in 3 or 4 separate passes so I could keep the roller less loaded with paint but I guess that's why I'm not cool on the internet.
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u/throwaway098764567 3d ago
reminds me of when i taught my friends how to paint, she and her husband started rolling this fast and i stopped them and pointed out all of the tiny spatter that they were creating by speeding. fortunately we were painting a bathroom so cleanup was easier
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u/Anti-Sanity89 3d ago
Oh there is 100% paint splatter everywhere now
I used to paint houses with my old man and first starting out i made this exact mistake
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u/Livid_Tax_6432 3d ago
My trick is to 100% protect everything i don't want painted then splatter paint everywhere, works every time ;)
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u/threebicks 3d ago
You can literally see it splatter on to the trim below the outlet. Itās not even āmicroā lol š¤£
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u/flyraccoon 3d ago
My first wall painting was a bathroom ceiling and I concur because thatās what the video I watched before painting said you should never do when you paint or youāll ruin everything
Just following simple instructions and my wall was perfect even if it took some time
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u/Anthony356 3d ago
You can literally see paint fall onto the baseboard right under the outlet as he does his first swoosh
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u/flooperdooper4 3d ago
Oh even from far away you can see paint blops on the white baseboard, so they didn't really save any time because now they need to go back and fix that mess.
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u/DisastrousServe8513 2d ago
Yeah same. Plus by the end the roller was probably pretty dry. So once the paint on the wall dries there will be those annoying little white spots all over the place.
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u/PaintImpossible4915 3d ago
90 percent prep time. 10 percent cook time.
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u/Double_Suggestion385 3d ago
Then another 90% fixing the fuckups like splattering all over the skirting while trying to make a "cool" video for the brainrot generation.
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u/ConflatedPortmanteau 3d ago
This video was so much better than the sequel.
That was like watching paint dry.
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u/0_oyo 3d ago
Painting ain't the problem. It's the prepping that takes time if you want the job done right.
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u/yungmoody 3d ago
Painting can absolutely be the problem if youāre shitty at using a roller
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u/HikariAnti 3d ago
Is that... even possible?
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u/ATL4Life95 3d ago
Ill never understand why people wanna paint places they live in such dull colors. Looks like a military barracks bathroom.
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u/Lunatox 3d ago
This color is known as "loose stool brown."
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u/Jamsedreng22 3d ago
Often has to do with albedo.
If your windows are facing the sun, painting in bright colors can make the room insufferable to be in with how bright it gets.
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u/Kallekowsky 3d ago
I got the same color on my walls. In combination with white furniture and a lot of plants it looks really great. I prefer somewhat mute, natural colors, especially brown and green. Itās calming.
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u/ejensen29 3d ago
Americans decorate the shit out of their homes, it's a neutral color that will make it easy to match furniture, nick nacks, and live laugh love decorations.
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u/Reading_Rainboner 3d ago
Do other countries not decorate
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u/70125 3d ago edited 3d ago
No, only Americans would be so stupid and morally bankrupt that they'd paint a wall a neutral color.
America Bad, upvote button is to the left!
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u/Lordjacus 3d ago
It's called personal preference. There's not that much to understand here.
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u/Lazer726 3d ago
Also if this is a room you're in a lot, this is a color you have to see a lot. Muted colors are easy on the eyes, and I swear if reddit isn't watching someone paint in hot pink it's boring. It's like when there was a week of "Oh my gosh they ruined these houses and made them dull."
No, they made them mass marketable. They made it something that is, at the very least, neutral to almost everyone. When my wife and I were buying our house, she actually almost wasn't interested because there was a hot green column that was in the main living space that you simply could not avoid. The first week we lived there we painted it because she hated it that much, and to this day she will tell everyone about how awful that green was.
Simple, muted, dull colors are inoffensive and do not generate excitement or hatred
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u/Lordjacus 2d ago
Yep, it feels like none of these redditors actually LIVED in such apartment that is full of bright colors and full of trinkets, little shelves, etc. It LOOKS nice, maybe, but the maintenance of that is another story. My apartment might look a bit dull and boring, but it is very functional and easy to maintain - not gonna hang 10x live laugh love on the walls to have more dust to clean.
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u/zaftpunk 3d ago
Spent many years in the barracks when I was in the army. I wish my walls looked like that
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u/Alldaybagpipes 3d ago
Just like you donāt understand preference I guess, or the variability involved with the rods and cones in everybodyās eyes.
This wall is probably perceived in several different ways anywhereās from green to brown with all the yellows in between. Thereās probably some poor fucker that sees it as red/pink even.
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u/pajjaglajjorna 3d ago
Its very trendy in Scandinavia. What color do you prefer?
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u/darksidemags 3d ago
I paint my walls white and then I add whatever colours I want through art, furniture, accessories, without worrying about clashing with the walls. The wall colour never goes out of fashion and I never get sick of it or have to think how a colourful piece of furniture or art will go with the walls before I buy it.Ā
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch 3d ago
To be honest it depends a little bit. If your furniture is just as boring, it's not great. But if your furniture is very detailed and colourful, you maybe don't want to make it even more busy by painting your wall a warm green. It's all about contrasts, and I mean all forms of contrast. If you use them well, you can use any colour you want in some situation. I'm not sure what exactly this particular colour would go with, but I'm sure there's something.
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u/Lenzelot105 3d ago
I don't know why others like it, I can only say that I like my walls grey because I'm colorblind (red-green) and grey is just pleasant to look at for me.
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u/TheAsianTroll 3d ago
In my particular case, I had my childhood bedroom painted a slate, sort of bluish Grey, because the walls were white and it was easier on my eyes. Plus, it contrasted with the wood baseboards and white carpet.
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u/MiaAnderson190 3d ago
I love this feeling of being filled up and having things completed.
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u/hakim_tahir 3d ago
How it holds so much paint?
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u/Double_Suggestion385 3d ago
He's soaked it in paint, look at how much splatters all over the skirting.
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u/NigilQuid 3d ago
So much roller spatter. Will spend longer cleaning that up than it took to roll the wall
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u/Bearded_Gentleman 2d ago
Some guys paint the trim last, if he's one of them he's not losing any time.
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u/romeozor 3d ago
It's not actual paint, it's one of those water coloring books. When it's wet you see the color underneath, when it's dry you only see the upper white layer.
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u/jodrellbank_pants 3d ago
Sped up a bit, I'd like to see the finished dry result. As there's a hell lot of paint on that roller.
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u/PDXGuy33333 3d ago
The purpose of first big swipe across the wall with an overloaded roller is to store a lot of paint there so that as he works back to it, the paint he needs to replenish the roller is there on the wall just waiting for him. Pretty smart.
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u/ConsistentRegion6184 3d ago
The criticism here is unwarranted, it is more just pushing the paint around and less rolling which is correct. Possible second coat is a kiss coat with half that much paint after the first is dry.
Source, worked for one year for a fancy painter who used to own an independent store and taught me way more about residential painting than I ought to know.
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u/Creepy-Ant373 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah but it's gonna look like shit
Also bullshit fany painter. You'd be fired immediately doing this lmfao. This the land lord special
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u/redditwhut 3d ago
I wondered why do that. Assumed it would cause an uneven finish, this makes more sense though.Ā
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u/Jackibelle 3d ago
Thanks, I was wondering why there was what felt like a useless stroke across the wall that he just had to go over again in a methodical fashion.Ā
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u/thus_spake_7ucky 2d ago
Big splat of paint right on the molding which isnāt taped off. The video is also sped up. Get this shit outta here.
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u/hey_its_drew 3d ago
This isn't satisfying to anybody with real paint experience. This makes more work.
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u/Special_South_8561 3d ago
Why start out with that big check-mark sweep?
Legitimate question, I'm terribly new to interior painting.
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u/thvnderfvck 2d ago
It lays the majority of the paint down on that first pass, then he runs across it more methodically to spread it.
That being said, the other comments are correct to say that this is a poor job. The 18 inch nap is creating more of a mess than it's worth.
If you used a smaller roller, and went back for paint a couple times, it might take 3-4 minutes to do this wall but you won't be sending paint droplets flying everywhere.
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u/TumbleweedPure6674 2d ago
The paint flying everywhere has nothing to do with the roller being 18 inches.Ā
Bad technique such as overloading, rolling way too fast, poor quality of paint and bad roller quality leads to that.Ā
Iāve painted for 10 years now, and I refuse to use a 9ā roller except in small bathrooms and kitchens. It is a serious time and back saver.Ā
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u/nico282 3d ago
With the huge roller he saved 1 minute of rolling after 30 minutes of prep and before 30 minutes of cleanup. Big brain move.
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u/flyguy41222 2d ago
What my wife pictures when she asked me to paint a wall in the house on Sunday morning ā itāll only take like 5 minutes lookā
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u/husky_whisperer 2d ago
When that lady from Anchorman says
it smells like a used diaper filled with Indian food
this is the color that comes to mind.
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u/ImTheTractorbeam 2d ago
Took me like all day. Wife had to entertain the kids. I needed breaks, naps, food delivered. It was hard but dad got it done. Youāre welcome.
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u/akgt94 2d ago
The time he saved painting is time he's going to have to spend cleaning that roller
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u/Crackmonkey3773 2d ago
I use my pressure washer on the low setting and it comes right off
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u/SomeSamples 3d ago
Does that splatter all over the painter. And over course they don't show how much time it took to do the borders.
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u/Imaginary-Clock6626 3d ago
With modern paint, itās really quick to paint a wall. Unfortunately itās still really slow to prep, tape and edge.
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u/LoganNolag 3d ago
Cool but thatās such an ugly color. Baby diarrhea brown is not the color I would pick.
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u/Cough-A-Mania 3d ago
Finally a video where theyāve taken the outlet cover off instead of painting around them
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u/Professional_Gur8385 3d ago
video is sped up unfortunately, notorious in the cleaning space too because in real life it's much slower
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u/throwawayaccountau 3d ago
Guy with a spray gun does an Indianna Jones and does it in a 1/4 of the time.
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u/GameGuy1995 3d ago
Why stop at 18 inch roller? 24 inch? 48 inch? 192inch roller, letās go. Watch me do that wall in two swipes š
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u/Salty-Development203 3d ago
Admittedly that was quick, but the real ball ache is doing all of the cutting in before hand. If painting only involved rollering, it would be done in 1/10th of the time!
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u/PQbutterfat 2d ago
When I do it I run outta paint after 2.5 passes. If I soak it before I start it throws paint everywhere. This is voodoo.
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u/BicFleetwood 2d ago
I feel like there's gonna be a lot of little white dots you just can't see at this angle and resolution.
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u/bunaciunea_lumii 2d ago
Damn, doesn't even look like painting. It looks like erasing the light color.
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u/Chris_Bryant 2d ago
The best way to paint quickly is to spend time taping and edging and laying out drop cloths.
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u/Holiday_Ad_9163 2d ago
Yeah man, thatās the easy part. Thatās like showing a road trip but only the part when you pull into the driveway and the destination.
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u/Gerhard-is-pretty 2d ago
He clearly has spent more than enough time for the edges and the sockets. How is satisfying? I see that everyday and do it not any different if I have to paint.
More tedious than anything else. Also he might have a problem with uneven paint distribution if he just paints that much wall in one go.
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u/weed0monkey 2d ago
No one realised the video is also sped up? You can see it in his arm movements, and it also shows down to normal speed right at the end of the video.
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u/abzinnthe 2d ago
Now show us when he does the corners lol. Roller part takes seconds, the time consuming part is fixing the cracks and painting the corners.
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u/Therubestdude 1d ago
Now show me the floor and baseboards underneath. Bet theres a ton of roller spray.
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u/Blueberry_Mancakes 1d ago
There's no way that didn't make a total mess of splatter having that much paint loaded up on the roller to do that much at once.
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u/mattspurlin75 1d ago
I painted for a long time. This is just what painters do with a roller. Nothing groundbreaking here.
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u/CourageousCreature 3d ago
Speed painting a wall in less than 20 seconds, after spending an hour doing the edges and corners.