Cut In Tips, Back Rolling After You Cut. Perfect Ceilings Lines Every Time.

[Applause] [Music] we're doing an accent wall here today and i'm doing some cut-ins so i'm getting these cut-ins done i'm going to show you but i keep getting asked all the time why do i back roll my cut-ins and if you don't know what those people are talking about or if you've never heard that term let me give you a demonstration of what it is so i'm doing my cutting i'm cutting in right here and i got some really bumpy cut ends this is probably one of the most challenging scenarios you can ever have so i'm using an ultra ultra pro lin back right here and the reason why i'm using this brush is it's super stiff i can cut in these lines right here and it's working really well with this paint right here now i've got my cut in done and i'm going to just go back and back roll my cutting i'm going to try to get this as close to the ceiling as i can and then work my way down a little bit roll it out just like that and that's what back rolling your cut-ins is and that's what the term is referring to so i'm doing my cut in drawing it like a pencil like is like what i kind of like to say the analogy i like to use now i'm going to back roll this work it down work it out just like that so that's what back rolling your cut-ins is and so why do i do that anyways when you take in brush when you're brushing your cut in and i'm going to brush my cut in like this i'm going to go back and finish it off at least brush strokes so you got your brush strokes right there then you're going to come back and actually roll your wall so i'm going to roll my wall and if this is for instance my ceiling cut in right here i'm going to cut in my ceiling and then i'm going to go back and back brush it some people are like there's no need to back roll your cut in so that's my ceiling kind of now i'm going to come back and roll my wall i'm going to come up as close as i can without touching the ceiling and if you don't back roll it what you're gonna end up having is you've got stipple marks right here so your roller leaves stippling stipple marks and then your brush leaves brush strokes so you got brush strokes going this way you've got stippling going that way and what that does is it shows a difference it's what we call a halo and it's in what causes the halo is the stippling from the the roller is a different texture than the brush stroke which leaves what we call roping and that's a difference and what you're going to see is not necessarily um a color difference but you do leave a color difference and i'll tell you why but you leave haloing due to textured inconsistencies now if i go back and back roll my cut in i can bring it you know within a quarter inch of the ceiling now you only have this little tiny stripe that is it's um real it's is um a little tiny stripe that's brush strokes i'm just going to smooth this out because i don't want it to dry because you'll see that we're actually doing a video how to do an accent wall so i don't want that to dry so another thing is is what happens is when you're doing um your cut in i'm going to talk about this this is another thing i'm cutting in so i'm cutting in now i'm going to leave come back and back brush it just like that now what that does is that lays out your tint or the color it in the paint in one direction so it's going to be laying it out forward or backwards according to your final stroke now i'm going to come back and i'm going to roll my wall just like this and it leaves the roller leaves stippling but it leaves the the and lays out the color in a different pattern than it is brushing it the color is going to stay up on peaks and valleys valleys lighter on the peaks darker in the valleys so you're going to see a color difference from where you brush it versus where you roll it so in order to eliminate those color differences and pattern or texture differences i back roll my ceilings so i back roll it and i'm not sure if you can see but i back rolled it i got to maybe a half an inch to an inch from the ceiling if you don't have the ceiling color you don't want to touch the ceiling because you're not going to be able to touch it up so it's really a comfort level of how close you can get to it so the reason why i didn't do the first coat on the walls is that way you would be able to see this video demonstration a lot better and you'll be able to see the color differences the texture differences and um you'll be able to see the cut-ins a lot better so typically if we're doing an accent wall like this i'm gonna do one um coat and i'm gonna stay away from my ceilings i'm gonna stay away from my my edges and baseboards on my first coat and then we're going to do the cut ends and do our final coat right over the top of that you definitely want to keep a wet edge so you're doing your cut ends you're rolling up while it's wet so um it's on a wall like this you either got to do your cut ends a certain portion of the cut-ins and hurry up and roll the wall right behind yourself or better yet i'm doing using two people makes it a lot easier so i'm just doing my cut-ins here once again these ceilings are really there there is no 90 degree corner or angle in these ceilings so getting a straight line especially with a dark color like this is very difficult and you want a brush that has a really stiff tip i can get a nice sharp line and what i'm talking about the tip is the very tip of the brush so this is an ultra this is a lin back ultra pro and this is an extra firm brush extra firm brush right here i can get it up there and just use the tip of my brush to draw a line right through all that difficult terrain is what i like to call it just like that before it dries i'm going to go back and back roll it and i always instead of leaving it right there because it's going to leave it heavy i come there come down and that feathers it out just like that you can see i've got within half inch so along that line i'm going to come back opposite direction draw my line come back the opposite direction where stuff didn't get filled go in the one direction make any corrections that i need to looks like i'd like it a little bit higher i like to decide on going up into the ceiling versus the wall that ceiling color wasn't completely dry right there so i drug it out a little bit but it's like that and i'm going to back roll it feather it out just like that all right there you have it some tips and tricks uh doing cut-ins ceiling cut-ins and specifically why back-roll my cut-ins i get a lot of questions on social media on youtube uh instagram facebook you know why back roll hopefully that explains you know a little bit about why i do it or a lot about why i do it if you got any tips or tricks doing cut-ins let us know down in the comment section below if this video is helpful to you at all uh please consider giving us a thumbs up it really just keeps encouraging us to make more videos and another way to encourage us making more free videos is hit the subscribe 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