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Load and Rotate the Paintbrush

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

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What happens here

Before you begin painting, ensure your paintbrush is properly loaded with paint. Dip the brush into the paint, but avoid overloading it. Use the bucket grid to gently pat off any excess paint from the bristles, ensuring the brush is loaded but not dripping. As you move the loaded brush from the bucket to the ceiling line, consciously rotate the brush in your hand. This technique prevents paint from dripping onto the floor or other surfaces, especially when working from a ladder. Maintain a light grip and controlled movement to prevent accidental drips.

Goal: Prepare the paintbrush for application by loading it correctly and preventing drips.

Tools and materials

  • 1-gallon Bucket Grid — Removing excess paint from the brush
  • 2-gallon Bucket — Holding paint
  • Purdy ClearCut Brush Purdy — Applying paint for cutting in
  • Paint — Applying to the ceiling line

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some tips and tricks doing the cutins. And I'm just going to put I put some paint in my bucket. I usually put, you know, a couple inches of paint in my bucket. I don't want it up too high. You don't want it too low. You want to have enough in there that you can work with and not have to fill your bucket all the time. But I'm going to get my my roller all loaded up. I want that thing completely loaded up, ready to use. I think it's really important that you back brush your cut ends. And then I'm going to get my brush full of paint. And I like to just take dip my brush in here and I just pat it on the side of my bucket. So I'm just going to pat it on the side, get it loaded up, pat it on the side, and then I'm ready to actually paint. And a couple of the the tips to not spilling paint or getting paint dripped everywhere. Just take it, load up your your brush. Don't want to get too much paint on it, but get little bit of paint on it. Pat it to the side. And as I move it to my area that I'm actually going to be painting, I actually subconsciously I do because I've been painting so long, but you actually turn your brush or rotate your brush so it doesn't actually drip. So I'm going to pat it in here. Make sure it's not dripping. And then I'm going to rotate my brush to where I'm going. As long as your brush is rotating, you can put a lot of paint on this thing. And if I let it set here, it's it's going to start to drip. But as long as I rotate this brush in different directions, it will never drip. So when I'm ever taking my brush to my cut in area where I'm going to do my cut in, I'm actually rotating it. It's a technique that I actually use when I'm rolling walls too or doing my cutins with my 4-in brush.

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