CUTTING CEILINGS. DIY How To Paint A Straight Ceiling Line.

This is Chris, the Idaho Painter, bringing you another how-to video on professional painting tips to make your job go a little easier, smoother, and like a professional did it. This is Chris, the painter. In this video, we're going to go over ceiling cutins and how to do a proper ceiling cut in. To do this task, we're using a 4-in map and I use a pretty white dove 3/8 in 4-in map. And I also use a pretty sure Sure tip brush. And I like 2 and 1/2 in angled sash brushes. And we're using a product from Sher Williams called Treasure Valley Egg Shell. And we're going to be cutting in the ceiling a different color. and we're going to show you how we go about cupping the ceiling. And the first thing I'm going to want to do is I'm going to want to load up my nap. And I use a 4 inch uh screen bucket in my bucket right here to actually load the nap up. And I'm going to roll it on my screen. Just dip it in slightly to load it up with paint. And then get my nap ready. And now I'm going to start brushing and patting in. I'm just going to dip my brush slightly in about an inch into the paint. Going to pat on the side of the bucket. And I'm going set my brush up here on the ceiling. And I'm going to begin dragging my brush along the ceiling line doing my cut in. And then I drag it one way about a foot. Dip the paint again. And then I bring it back and I drag it the opposite direction. And then just lay it down with a brush. And then I go back and then back roll it with paint on my mat. That way the stippling will match the stippling from a nap when the wall is rolled. And then I'll go back up about another foot. I'm going drag it one direction. And I like to drag it both directions because it'll it'll miss some holes and stuff from the texturing. If you drag it the other direction, it'll actually fill those holes back in that got missed. And they're still miss. I'll drag it both ways. Just like that. I'll load my nap up and then pull it out. And then we always like to do our cutins first before we roll because it'll minimize the haloing. If you roll your walls first and do your cutins, you'll get possibly a halo across the top of the ceiling. So, it's good practice to do your cutins first and then while the cutins are wet, then you want to take and roll the wall. I'll back up here, get into a corner. I'm going to work my way up a corner, too, to where my cutting is. And I like to take and roll the corners just to make it so the person rolling the wall has an easier time doing the corners. Same practice. It's good to do your corners first so you don't get that halo created by even though it's the same color, it could show haloing. So, I'm going to drag it one way. And if you're new at cutins, don't got a lot of practice, it's good to hold your breath. Just pat it. Just hold your breath the opposite direction. If you got to lay it out again, one more time. Lay it out again. Then I'll cut it in again back the opposite direction. And I can do about three or four feet and then roll. So just pat your brush. Don't dip your bristles too far in. You want to dip your bristles just about an inch. One direction. Go back the other direction. Just use the very tip of the brush to get up there. And you're basically drawing a line. So I can get about several feet then go back roll it. bristles in just an inch to/ inch. Just tap it on the side just to load up your brush. Going to take I'm going to place my brush about a half inch from the ceiling. Then I'm going to work it up. Just glide it right along. It'll go about a foot or so and dip it back in. And just gonna get right here. Work my way up to the ceiling. I'm going to just back roll it. When I back roll it, I want to get about about an inch to half inch from the ceiling. Just like that. Got another section above a door here. You just fill that in to make the person rolling with an 18in map or 9 in map a little easier so they don't have to work above doors. Once again, I'm going to take place my brush about an inch from the ceiling. And then I'm going to glide and then get it right up against the ceiling back the opposite direction. Now you want to have somebody rolling behind you to come up about an inch from the ceiling and that way the two wet paints will gel together and won't create your color haloing. This is Chris the Idaho painter from Boise Idaho. How to do a ceiling cut in. going to load up the brush. We'll just take and set our brush here and about a/2 inch away. And now we're going to start working the brush up to our cut in and then drag it along. If I want to make corrections, if the cutting didn't get filled in right, I'm going to start the opposite direction, get about a half inch away, and just use a few bristles to draw your line. You don't want the whole brush. Just a few of the bristles are going to come up to the top and basically draw that line for you. We're not using the whole brush to cut it in. We're just using just the tip of it. Thanks for watching our videos and don't forget to click that great button right up here and subscribe to our channel or click the button right down here and like us or the other button and share us. This is Chris the Idaho Painter videoing to you from Boise, Idaho.