Painting Floor Joists Basement Ceiling

The best paint for painting floor joists is a non shiny or matte paint.

Painting floor joists basement ceiling.

However you won t have that endless sky feeling. You do not want the ceiling to be obtrusive. If you don t already have one rent one for the. This guest post on how to paint a basement ceiling with exposed joists comes from a reader and friend of one project closer chuck williams.

Start in a corner and move down one line of joists moving back and forth slightly for even coverage. Spray the primer over the floor joists on the basement ceiling. Because you will be painting a large area over your head it will be easier to use a spray painter. Paint will cling best to a clean surface.

Painting a basement ceiling black or a dark color will give the ceiling a more endless appearance like that of a dark sky. Painting the joists and other fixtures of a basement ceiling is most easily accomplished with an airless paint sprayer. A flat finish with a water based paint is a better option. Often times when a basement is finished all of the rafters pipes and mechanical lines are painted in a single uniform color.

However black or a dark color will cause the basement area to have a darker appearance. During my efforts to upgrade my unfinished basement i wanted an alternative to the typical acoustic tile drop ceiling or drywall ceiling. Spray paint the whole thing. An exposed basement ceiling is when the structural and mechanical designs like trusses joists beam and ductwork are left in their natural state.

Cover the floor and remaining objects with tarps or paper. Here s our quick and easy guide to painting your basement s floor joists. Continue down the next joist. Chuck is an amateur carpenter and diy weekend warrior.

Even a carefully painted joist can drip onto anything below. Fred told me of his tentative plans to paint his open.