Painting High Ceilings Above Stairs

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Painting high ceilings above stairs.

The ceiling and walls over your staircase are the most awkward surfaces to paint in your home not to mention the most potentially dangerous. To reach stairwell ceilings for painting projects and other work use an extension ladder as shown here. Tips for painting tall ceiling stairwells. Painting a stairwell with a high ceiling can seem like a daunting task particularly for new homeowners.

You usually need more than just a pair of steps or a single ladder. Now hopefully i can paint with relative ease and safety. The home mender dustin luby shows us how to paint those hard to reach places at the top of a stairwell. There is no easy way to trim where the wall meets the ceiling when it was that high up at least not without renting scaffolding so by painting the wall and ceiling the same color you don t need to be quite so careful with your.

A step ladder is the most stable option and should be able to fit on the floor at the top of your stairs. One of the reasons we decided to paint our stairwell white was so it would be the same color as the ceiling. The traditional way of painting a stair hallway wall all is to use a ladder at the longest length a pair of steps on the shortest length and a scaffold board or. How to paint a high ceiling over stairs.

We have a bi level high ranch stairwell with 1 set going up and one down. To construct a scaffold you will need ladders on the floor above and the floor below the stairs you will be painting. And four years later i m still looking at a single yellowed ceiling and wishing i d completed my project. A 16 foot ladder will reach a two story ceiling but higher work may require 20 or 24 feet.

Painting a ceiling can be challenging even for an experienced painter. One of the most off putting things about painting stair hallways is the large stair wall that you need to paint. Set it on a stair tread and lean it against the stairwell wall. Tips on painting over a staircase.

I duct taped my paint brush to get into the edges but i didn t know how to edge for the ceiling paint job which will be coming up. Click the links below to see inside dustin s. While every other square inch of ceiling was painted white this was the only spot in the house i didn t take the opportunity to get to.