Applying a 1st coat of finish paint over a drywall patch

Don't get all rambunctious on wanting to put your first coat of finish paint up here before your primer dries. Make sure it's all dry. So I'm just gonna feel that and it feels dry. There's no paint on my hand and it doesn't feel tacky. If it still feels slightly tacky and if you're getting just barely a little bit of paint on, just wait a few more minutes and let it dry. You want this 100 percent dry. It's going to do its best when it's all the way dry before you put on your first coat of finish paint. All right, I'm ready to put the first coat finish paint up here and it's kind of, I got it sort of thick on my roller first. I want to go right down the middle first. I don't want to put it too thick around the edge just yet until I get some of the paint off my roller. On this first coat, I only want to cover up to the primer. I don't want to go any further than that for a couple reasons. The first, I want to see if this paint matches and I think it's going to match pretty close but if you're not sure, you don't want to go too far with that first coat. The second reason is if it doesn't match and if it's almost close enough, you don't want to paint the entire ceiling like I was telling you before. Now you've kind of got a game plan on how you're going to kind of taper that in to the shadows of the ceiling and have a game plan as to where to start and stop your paint on that second coat. Because if the paint doesn't match, you don't want to go any further than where the primer is anyways because if you do, then the second coat you're going to have to go that much further out and you're going to have two coats of paint in the new area as opposed to just one and that might make your paint stick out that much more if your paint does not match. Follow? Follow me? Go around this light fixture and I think this paint is going to match up really good. If it does, I won't have to go out too much further at all. Even if this paint matches 100 percent then on my next coat I may take it out just a hair further but not very much, not very much, but if I do then I can blend it in on the outside edges with my paint roller that maybe doesn't have as much paint on it at that point. Then you're kind of mimicking in the paint and blending it in easier because you don't have a full roller of paint. Then you just kind of do a dusting over some of the existing and if that paint matches really close you're not going to see this patch at all. I got to be careful against the cabinet and that's why I don't want a full paint roller when I'm going up next to a cabinet or something like that. I want hardly any paint on there. My roller was full right now. If I was doing this I'd be hard pressed to get the paint too close to the cabinet without making a line of ridge of paint on there. That's the last thing I want to do. I'm looking at that. I think I'm going to leave that alone. That's a good first coat. If you have any slight imperfections on the first coat don't sweat it because the second coat is going to cover. You want to do it as good a job as you can on that first coat though especially evening out all of the paint and all that because if you get any thicker areas than others then you might be able to see your paint patch that way too because it's not nice and even. Don't have any holidays in your roller either. What holiday is if you put the roller on there and if you don't get a full body of paint as you're going you'll see it too and then it will dry and you'll see oh there's a streak there's a streak there's a streak what's up with that well you didn't have enough paint on your roller cover as you went that's another good reason to use a construction light on your project because you'll be able to see lots of stuff trust me that you wouldn't if that light wasn't up there all right gonna let that dry now now that paint's not going to take that long to dry maybe maybe 20 minutes or so depending in your area how cold it is and that kind of thing so what I'm going to do I got a little piece of plastic here I'm going to take my paint roller I'm just going to roll it up in this plastic because I don't want this cover to dry out last thing you want is for your cover to dry out before you get ready for your next paint and you know some people might say well just rinse it out well now you're rinsing out some of the paint on that roller you might need that extra paint plus now you've got to let your roller cover dry because the worst thing you do is rinsing off a roller cover and then having it wet and then getting back into your paint now that's the paint that I have in here that should be fine but the reason for putting the plastic on there is you get it nice and tight right up to the paint now your roller cover is not going to dry out and get crusty okay last thing you want okay so I can I can let that sit the rest of the day if I wanted I could pull that off when I got done I don't even have to rinse it off today I can rinse it out tomorrow but in between coats get in the habit of doing that and your paint will go on nice and smooth for the next coat I turned that construction light off really quick you get a better idea where I've got that paint now let that dry all the way before we put the next coat on