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Do Not Use Rubber Bands to Wipe Brushes

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6 BAD Painting Hacks. These Tips Are NONSENSE!

What happens here

The final hack discussed is using a rubber band stretched across an open paint can as a makeshift brush wiper. The presenters demonstrate dipping a brush and wiping it against the rubber band. They caution that this method is prone to flicking paint onto unintended surfaces (like furniture or carpeting) and does not allow for proper brush loading or excess paint removal. Professional painters typically 'pat' their brushes against the side of a dedicated cut-in bucket to remove excess paint cleanly and efficiently.

Goal: This step discredits the hack of stretching a rubber band across a paint can to wipe excess paint, as it can cause paint flicking and improper brush loading.

Tools and materials

  • Cut-in Bucket (Alternative)
  • Paint Brush
  • Paint Can
  • Rubber Band

What they say

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bears so we have an open can of paint right here and we have a brush right there so this is kind of interesting you can take a can of paint and you can put a rubber band around it and then you can play it like a guitar i thought it was kind of interesting when i first saw the hack but then i realized really quickly the dangers of this and this is something you'll want to know because the first time it happens you're going to go oh and then that's not going to be good so what what's the whole rubber band thing for so theoretically you're going to you know do a little dip dip dip to the brush and then you're going to wipe the paint off the brush onto the rubber band so that you know there's not a bunch of paint on your brush so we can just even try it who knows so my um well they're just my concern with this is you know if somebody is not careful enough and there we go that's now that was aggressive i got a little that's my concern with somebody that doesn't have a lot of rubber band experience so i just put paint everywhere so um this is this is so dangerous what if it does that and it flicks onto something like cloth like on a pillow on a couch or on carpet this is white it goes on the white carpet you can't even see it anyway so it wouldn't matter not that we're endorsing that so um really do not the rubber band just use a rubber band for what it's supposed to be used for well that's not even how brushes work like you need to work the paint into the brush itself if you just dip the brush and then wipe all the paint off the excess that's why it takes you forever to cut a line on a ceiling because there's no paint in the brush you've just scraped everything off of it so typically as a painter we use cut in buckets and so we're patting it on the side of the cutting bucket but you'll see guys use um you know the cans and stuff like this and they'll just scrape it on the side of the can and so the rubber band is supposed to be instead of on the side of the can so you don't take and you know fill up i guess is that called the well or the lip or what is it called you can cut whatever you want anything i want i'll call it the well we'll just call it a well so the paint goes down there look if i'm painting now this which i rarely do and i do get paint inside there or for you just look i mean it's really simple you just take your brush you scrape it out just like this and it takes it right out and it's cleaned it's not like you can return the can right right right…

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