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HOW TO CUT IN CEILINGS. DIY home improvement cut-in hacks and tips

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What happens here

The presenter begins by showcasing the essential tools required for painting straight ceiling cut-in lines. These include a 2-gallon paint bucket, a 1-gallon bucket grid (to fit inside the 2-gallon bucket), a 4-inch paint roller with a 3/8-inch nap cover (specifically a Wooster brand roller), a 5-in-1 painter's tool, a caulking gun, clear caulk, and various Purdy brand angled sash brushes, including the XL Glide for thin paints and the ClearCut for thicker paints. The 4-inch roller is used for back-rolling the cut-in areas to match the wall's stippling. The 5-in-1 tool and caulk are introduced as aids for creating clean lines on uneven surfaces.

Goal: Understand and prepare all necessary equipment for straight ceiling cut-ins.

Tools and materials

  • 1-gallon Bucket Grid — Wringing out excess paint from brushes and rollers
  • 2-gallon Bucket — Holding paint for cutting in and keeping brushes/rollers
  • 3/8-inch Nap Roller Cover White Dove — Applying paint with a texture that matches typical wall rolling
  • 4-inch Paint Roller Wooster — Back-rolling cut-in lines to match wall texture
  • 5-in-1 Tool — Scoring a precise groove along the ceiling line for a straight guide
  • Angled Sash Brush — General cutting in, especially for corners
  • Caulking Gun — Applying caulk to create a smooth line on very rough ceilings
  • Ladder Werner — Reaching the ceiling lines safely
  • Purdy ClearCut Brush Purdy — Cutting in with thicker paints
  • Purdy XL Glide Brush Purdy — Cutting in with thinner paints
  • Clear Caulk — Creating a smooth, straight bead on rough ceiling lines
  • Paint — Painting the walls and ceiling lines

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this one. I'm going to go over a couple other specific tips and tricks that's going to improve your cutins. So, I'm going to go over some of the tools that I'm going to be using in this video to show you what I'm using that actually helps me do really, really straight uh ceiling cutins and that will help you do a lot better ceiling cutins that look just like mine. So, I'm going to go over some of these tools right now. And one of them that I use that's one of the basics things is going to be just your cutin bucket. And I've got a two gallon bucket. I like using a two gallon bucket. It has holds just the right amount of right amount of paint. And inside of it, I've got a bucket grid, a onegon bucket grid. And I've had some questions. People want to know what that grid looks like. So, I'm going to pull it out right here. I just had a comment on one of my cutin videos the other day asking if they could actually see the grid. And here's the onegon grid. So, I use a 2gallon bucket and I use a onegon grid. And the one gallon grid just sits down in the bucket just right. and it's wide enough that it actually will cover my 4-in roller and nap. So, this is the roller that I'm using and it's a Worooster 4-in roller right here with the roller cover. I like using the pretty white dove uh roller covers and I like a 3/8 in roller cover. And I use this to actually after I do my cutins, I use that to actually back roll back roll over it. So when I roll my ceilings or roll my walls, the stippling will actually match the walls. When you roll the walls, the cut in when you do the cutins, it's going to leave a brush stroke that grows across the ceilings, but you want to stipple over that so it actually will match the stippling on the walls. And then two of the tricks that I'm going to be showing you in this video are going to require a 5in-1 tool. And that's going to be to score an edge up there or a groove in your ceiling line. That will give you the ability to do a really straight cut in. Got a cocking gun with clear cocking. On some ceilings that are really bumpy and rough, you're going to put or you can put a bead of clear cocking up there. I'm going to show you that. So, those are a couple of accessories that I got with me that I'm going to be doing this. And of course, you got to have a brush. I've got uh the two brushes that I'm using to do my ceiling cutins. They're actually pretty brushes. I do like pretty brushes. I've used the Wooster brushes. They're really good.…

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