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How to Paint Fast-Drying Latex Without Lap Marks

A lap mark is a double film where fresh paint overlaps paint that has started to set. Keep a wet edge by cutting and rolling one section as a single operation.

What you need

• Model 473201-1/2" Oval Brush Polyester SRT Filament, Stiff $6.56 each$4.55 each at 100 or more

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• Model 473273" Brush Polyester SRT Filament, Stiff $11.07 each$7.68 each at 100 or more

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• waterborne latex or acrylic coating with its data sheet
• primer or sealer for bare or patched spots
• roller and cover

Steps

1. Read the can and data sheet for the allowed air and surface conditions. Work inside that window, out of direct sun and drafts.
2. Clean off dust, grease and sanding residue. Prime or seal bare, patched or porous spots so the surface has one porosity.
3. Pick a section you can finish without stopping: one wall, one door face, or one trim member.
4. Load the brush belly, tap it on the inside of the pail, and do not wipe it on the rim.
5. Set each new load on unpainted surface, then work back into the paint that is still open.
6. Cut the perimeter only as far as the roller can follow while it is open, then roll the adjacent field right away.
7. Roll with a vertical working edge, finishing each column into the previous wet one.
8. Finish at a corner, opening or board end. Do not go back over paint that has started to skin.

Tips

• Add no water or other product unless the label allows it.
• Hatbanding is a dried brushed border that gets rolled over later. Keep the cut and the roll in the same wet operation.
• Lay on, then lay off once with light, aligned strokes. Repeated grooming thins the film.
• The 1-1/2 in. oval 47320 carries more paint on shaped trim. The 3 in. 47327 lays on broad flat faces.

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Questions about the right tool for your job? Email cs@hydestore.com or call 508-916-6442.