What's the best way to paint a ceiling?

What's the best way to paint a ceiling?
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Can you just hire a professional and be done with it? The thought of painting ceilings, textured ceilings, makes my ass twitch. I think you could use a sprayer but you’d have to spray at an angle from more than one direction. I don’t think they work holding them so they spray straight up. For sure wait until the roof is finished,or you’ll end up with it all to do again.
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