How long interior painting takes is mostly a question about everything except painting.
Rolling a wall is quick. Masking, filling, sanding, cutting in and putting the room back are what fill the day.
Room by room
A straightforward bedroom is usually a day: protect, fill and sand, cut in, two coats, reinstate. A kitchen or a room with a lot of trim and panelled doors runs to two. A whole house is rarely a single week unless it is empty.
What extends it
Damage nobody knew about. On walls painted four or five times, the first coat lifts anything that was never bonded properly underneath — that is not the new paint failing, it is the new paint finding an old failure.
Where that happens we stop, scrape back to something sound, spot-prime and carry on. It adds hours rather than days, and skipping it means the same patch lifts again later.
Drying decides more than you would think
In a Georgia summer with air conditioning running, recoat times are shorter than the tin suggests. In a damp spell they are longer. Rushing a second coat onto a first that is still soft gives a finish that marks when furniture touches it.
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