How do I paint a stairwell without hiring a special stairway ladder....

[nocluemum]

I have about a metre and a half that I cant reach and it will take merely minutes to paint and I begrudge having to hire one of those special ladders for the day. Because of cutting into the corners I cant just use an extendable roller and even me on dh shoulders is not tall enough. Any ideas...

I see you say you can't do it with an extendable roller, but I did mine with a narrow paintbrush taped to an extension pole and did a neat job of it tho' I say so myself . Ours is a gallery landing so it just involved walking along the landing v v slowly with the paintbrush between the top of the wall and the ceiling, the repeated it with the roller on the extension pole.

broom handle with a roller securely taped along side it.
and maybe a paint brush stuck to broom handle afterwards for corners

Paintbrush gaffer taped to a stick

what massiveknob said

it does work if you have a steady hand

This is tricky. I managed my very high hallway by using an extendable roller and then taping a paint brush to a long stick for the cutting in. It took a while but it wasn't too bad a job as I was using a light colour and the previous colour was light so it wasn't too obvious where I'd been a bit messy. You need a steady hand.

I have just seen a product on one of those tv shopping channels when I was channel hopping- it's called a slide n glide £29.99 and its just a paint pad with an extension pole and different pads for corners, cutting in etc. I was just thinking that actually a paint pad would make the high bits easier. It was on www.tvshopping247.com. I'm now thinking of getting it or something like it for my hall.It might work.

What everyone else has said. Is easier if walls & ceiling the same colour though. Must do my stairs & landing again soon...

Great. Thanks - all magnolia-esque colours (dull I know!) so paintbrush/tape/stick combo might work