Apply Freehand Touch-Up to Cracks

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Caulking your tape Q&A. Why paint cracks over the caulking?

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What happens here

With your loaded touch-up brush and a steady hand, gently apply the paint directly over the cracked areas on the caulk. After applying a small amount of paint to the crack, brush upward into the wall to blend the new paint seamlessly with the existing wall surface. This technique helps fill in the crack and covers any 'light spots' that might be visible along the cut-in line. Continue this process along all cracked sections. This method is generally effective for smaller cracks and when a steady hand can maintain a clean line.

Goal: Carefully apply the paint over the cracked caulk using a steady hand and the touch-up brush. Brush in an upward direction to blend the new paint with the existing wall paint.

Tools and materials

Paint Bucket/Container
Wall Paint (Flat/Matte Finish)

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i'm just going to take my brush steady hand and i'm just going to come down here and i like to just go right over the top of my cracks and then i brush back in an upward direction just like this and that's going to fill in my cracks right here and the flat paint so just go up and go down and just because the previous paint when i was brushing it on i was brushing this direction so i want the second coat to go in the opposite direction i'm going to come across cut and then just brush up i'm going to cut fill that in get really close there's a crack right there went all the way down to the caulking and once again if i'm not comfortable getting all the way down that close i can just remask it and i can re-mask it really fast and and then i can get really close if i'm not comfortable but i'm pretty comfortable cutting in a line with this brush and i always like to use your really new brush too this one is brand new when i'm doing stuff like this i gotta be really precise i want my filaments to be an excellent shape i'm going to get right down here's another one that's just all the way down to the the caulking so just like that you can see how it's filling it in this is how we you know deal with the cracks you know occasionally when it comes to satin and semi-gloss paints they uh typically never ever crack but if you were filling a huge gap if you if it did crack then you would just do the same technique right here and this is the same technique i'll talk a lot of people ask me you know what happens if you pull your masking and your cut-ins um need another coat this is exactly what we do we don't go back and just re-cut everything in everything that's light i just take and use my touch-up brush and i just go back and touch up any light spots of my cut-ins my cut-ins i'm typically trying to one coat my cut ends and um not have to do two coats on them but there's always there's typically always light spots in your cut in somewhere that you just got to go back and touch up it's never going to be 100 percent perfect but you can see me just getting right down there there's some you know i'm not quite close enough to the caulking but that looks pretty dang good there you can see the corner right here got some big cracks right here in the corner i'm not worried about that i'm just gonna fill these in right here the thicker the paint you put on on your first coat um you know what's gonna happen is you're the bigger your cracks are gonna be so right here coming along…

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