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How to Cut In PERFECT Ceiling Lines | Pro Painting Tips for Sharp Edges Every Time

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The speaker emphasizes that teaching this method to new painters (apprentices) allows them to become effective team members much faster, often within a month, compared to the years it takes to master freehand cutting. This approach fosters a more positive work environment, as new recruits can immediately contribute to quality results, increasing job satisfaction and team retention. It also helps address labor shortages by quickly integrating less experienced individuals into productive roles. The speaker states that skilled painters (supervisors/leads) can then focus on complex tasks like ceiling cut-ins.

Goal: The presenter elaborates on how this tape and brush method enables quick training of new team members, allowing them to achieve quality results and enjoy their work sooner, ultimately improving overall team efficiency and profitability.

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lines right off the bat it's an amazing effective system that you can teach somebody how to be an effective member of your team and ultimately a profitable memory or team because it really is about taking these kids taking somebody teaching them how to use this and them making you money because we're all typically us business owners we're in this to make money now once again it's nice if I can hire you know a guy your professional skilled painter that can hand cut all that in but there's just a lack of those guys out there now when it comes to ceilings all of our ceiling cut ends that's all hand cut in so still on our team I can have the apprentices do this type of work they typically will handle the baseboards they'll handle the window trim and they'll hand into the door trim but our supervisor or leads are the ones they're the skilled painters skilled with a brush this takes a lot of years to learn how to cut in so this system I'm teaching a kid how to do this literally in about a month they can create really nice perfectly crisp lines in a month but in order to teach them how to do that with a paintbrush that's probably gonna take somebody about five years to learn how to do that to be really really effective efficient and then get a straight line and I know this is gonna be an arguable point but I don't think there's anybody out there that can take a brush I know I've been your hand cutting in stuff for over eighteen years thousands and thousands of miles in a line that I've created with say frog tape and caulking or even frog tape on a smooth surface and a brush in paint it's absolutely laser sharp and I can never be consistent with my cut in and have it that straight for a long period of time it's just fast and effective so it's just making fast and effective members your team it's simple it's something you got to try give it a try don't knock it until you've tried it so the next thing I want to talk about is take in somebody that's new in the trades and getting them doing this method it gets them painting right off the bat and one thing I'm taking these young kids high school kids college kids and I know I keep saying young all the time we do higher you know people that are coming into the trades even in the mid-30s and stuff and they're not young high school kids and college kids just guys getting into the trades that for whatever reason they want to get into the trades and there are apprentices also but what I'm trying to do you know one of my…

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