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Double-Pass Cut-in & Blend with Roller

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How to Cut In PERFECT Ceiling Lines | Straight, Clean, and Professional Results with a Brush

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For textured walls (e.g., orange peel or knockdown), applying two coats during cut-ins is vital to ensure full coverage and correct any missed spots or waviness from the first pass. After cutting in the first time, allow it to slightly dry (or just go over it again if the paint is still wet and workable) then make a second pass to fill in any valleys or imperfections. Immediately following the second brush pass, use a small 4-inch roller, like a Purdy Jumbo Mini Roller, to back-roll over the fresh cut line. This blends the brush stroke texture with the wall's texture, creating a uniform finish that won't show a difference when the main wall is rolled.

Goal: Achieve full coverage and consistent texture on cut lines on textured surfaces.

Tools and materials

  • 4-inch Mini Roller

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we go with um tip number four. And tip number four is um going over your cut in twice. And I'm going to take do my cut in once. I'm going to rise up there, get up to the altitude I want, right into the cut in. I'm going to cut in. And then what happens is this isn't a smooth wall. And we're typically very rarely dealing with smooth walls. They're always some type of texture like orange field texture, knockdown texture, something. So there's going to be peaks and valleys like mountains. And so I'm going to go over the cut in. And usually I'm going to have these little spots on my cut in that didn't get the paint down inside of it. the softer bristle brush, the more of those you're going to have. The stiff stiffer bristle brush is going to fill in more of those. Or even if it's really, really rough, that's where John's technique of using um the back of the brush, he calls it the heel and toe. I just say back because I'm a little more simple, I guess, but um so, so going back over it again is going to fill those things in. So, I'm going to cut once, go back over it again, and cut twice. And that's where I can make any corrections also. So if my first cut had, you know, some misses on it or some you a little bit of winess to it, I could go back and correct it. So here we go. I'm just going to dip my brush in. I'm going to get it ready and I'm going to be about an inch or so, inch and a half from where I want to be. I'm going to rise up and then do my cut. And I typically do, you know, about a foot and then I tap it, come back, rise up, and then finish my cut. And there was about five little spots that were misses. That second cut going the opposite direction, filled them right in. And then like we typically always do, we um back roll over our cuts with our roller. And that'll give it the same texture instead of a brush stroke going this way. When you come up and roll your wall, um you're going to have the same texture and you're not going to see a difference. If there's any light spots and stuff after the wall, the room is all dry. We're going to come back and um just touch them up. We're not going to redo our cut ends. So tip number five is

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