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Ensure Full Wall Coverage and Avoid Paint Bridging

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DO NOT Paint Around Switch Plates | Bad Habits

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What happens here

With the outlet cover removed, you can now thoroughly prepare and paint the wall area. Apply paint to the entire surface, including the sections previously covered by the plate. This ensures a consistent and seamless finish. The video demonstrates the consequences of painting around an old cover and then installing a new, smaller one, which reveals an unpainted 'halo' effect. Another common issue highlighted is 'paint bridging', where multiple layers of paint build up and stick the cover to the wall. This can cause paint to peel from the wall if the cover is ever removed, damaging the finish.

Tools and materials

  • Paint brush
  • Paint roller
  • Wall paint

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that could possibly happen so now they're going to install a new switch plate and now it's not painted around that switch plate that becomes a problem now you've got to cut in and paint around this and it's actually going to leave a Halo of pain like a different color different Sheen because you're creating this touch up around this switch plane so that's why I just simply remove the one or two screws paint around the switch plate or the on the socket itself and then when it dries you just reinstall so I pulled this switch plate off too and I'll show you it's actually somebody's not remove the switchblade multiple times so not only did it have some of the dark color that I attempted to cut around it on it and it actually Bridge from the switch plate to the wall it peeled a little bit of the paint off and so you can see the Jagged Edge that it created but I've got multiple colors on here and the paint that actually bled right through the back of the switch plate and got on the switch plane so I don't know this is just a practice that

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