We need to paint a wall that's in a stairwell. It's dark green, so I'm guessing it's going to need several coats of primer and paint. The problem we're running into is that the stairwell has a landing and the wall is really really high (like close to 20 feet).
I keep forgetting to take pictures of it when I go over there, but the stairs do this:
So there's really no place to put a ladder to get to the top (the part of the wall we can't reach, of course, is the part right over the bottom set of stairs). We have an extender handle for our paint roller, so rolling it will be fine. But there's really detailed crown molding we need to get to, and then we also will have to use a brush to get the edge under the crown molding.
H and BIL have come up with everything from putting a super tall ladder ON the stairs (no!), building scaffolding, putting a board from the upstairs railing across to the window ledge and then trying to walk across it, and all sorts of other nonsense that seems like it will only end in a trip to the ER.
We've even asked the people at the paint store if they've ever encountered this or have ideas, and all they suggested was getting a professional who had scaffolding. But spending all that money just to paint that little span of wall seems awful also.
Has anyone run into a problem like this? Any ideas?