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CUTTING IN PAINTING TIPS. How to paint cut-in tips. Painting ceilings.

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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This video demonstrates a precise DIY technique to correct messy paint lines on interior trim work (such as baseboards, door jams, and window frames). The process involves carefully repainting the trim's edges, extending slightly onto the wall to create a perfectly straight new line. After allowing this new trim paint to dry, the fresh trim edge is masked off, allowing the walls to be painted with confidence, ensuring a clean and professional-looking separation between the trim and the wall.

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video we're actually going along and fixing the edges of the trim work here and we're going to be repainting this whole house and we're repainting the walls but not the trim the customer did have some of the trim paint left over from the house when it was built originally and the trim job itself um they had somebody come in and actually paint this um house and the rooms and the lines were extremely crooked on this and they got paint all over the the trim itself and in order for us to actually make it look good we're going along and actually just repainting the edges of the base boards and you can see we're actually just taking paint and brushing it up onto the wall a little bit and to try to um fix and all those lines and we actually go along just paint all the edges of the B baseboard all the edges of the door jams and stuff and then let that dry a day and then we come back and mask over that and then we'll be doing our walls and that way our lines will be completely straight otherwise if we were try to mask over areas like that it would be extremely difficult to get a straight line and our line would have to go way over those areas and so this is a quick solution to fixing um uh bad painters cut

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