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Dry Trim and Mask for Wall Painting

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

What happens here

After carefully repainting the trim edges, it is crucial to allow the new trim paint to dry completely. The video narrator suggests allowing it to dry for at least a day. Once the paint is fully dry, the next step (not shown, but described) is to apply painter's tape precisely along the newly established, straight edge of the trim. This creates a clean boundary, making it possible to paint the walls without concern for bleeding onto the trim, thereby achieving a perfectly straight line between the wall color and the trim.

Goal: Prepare the newly painted trim edges for subsequent wall painting by allowing sufficient drying time and then masking them off.

Tools and materials

  • Painter's Tape — To mask off the newly painted, straight trim lines before painting the walls

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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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