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Back Rolling in Difficult Corners and Uneven Edges

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

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What happens here

The presenter demonstrates applying the back-rolling technique in a challenging interior corner where walls and ceiling meet. He emphasizes that these areas often lack a perfect 90-degree angle and can be bumpy, making a straight line difficult. He uses his Wooster Ultra/Pro Lindbeck brush with its stiff tip to 'draw' a clean line along the corner, working with the contours of the ceiling. After brushing a section, he immediately back-rolls it to feather out the paint, preventing heavy spots and ensuring texture consistency. He shows how to go back and make small corrections with the brush if needed, then immediately back-roll those corrections to maintain the blended finish. This is crucial for achieving a professional look even in imperfect architectural conditions.

Goal: Effectively apply back rolling to corners and uneven edges for a flawless finish.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Bucket/Pot — Holding paint
  • Small Paint Roller — Back-rolling brushed areas

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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

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