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Double-Pass Cut-In for Textured Walls

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

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What happens here

For textured walls, a single pass of paint during cut-in might leave small, unpainted spots in the 'peaks and valleys' of the texture. To address this, perform a double-pass technique: first, apply your cut-in line as usual, ensuring good coverage. After the first pass, go back over the same cut-in line a second time, but in the opposite direction. This second pass will effectively fill in any missed spots and allows for corrections to any waviness from the first pass, ensuring a solid, even line. To blend the texture of the cut-in with the rest of the wall, immediately after completing the two passes, use a 4-inch mini roller, such as a Purdy Jumbo Roller, to 'back-roll' over the freshly painted cut-in area. This ensures a consistent texture across the entire painted surface.

Goal: Ensure complete and even paint coverage on textured cut-in lines and blend texture.

Tools and materials

  • 4-inch Mini Roller Purdy — Back-rolling cut-in lines to match wall texture
  • Gloves — Protecting hands from paint
  • Ladder Werner — Reaching high areas for painting
  • Paint Brush Purdy — Applying the initial cut-in passes
  • Paint Bucket — Holding paint and for loading the brush
  • Paint — Creating the cut-in lines

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cutin lines. So here we go with tip number four. And what I'm using when I'm doing my cutins today, I'm using a pretty clear cut brush. And there's a couple brushes I like for doing really good quality um cutins. I do like a pretty clear cut. I think the worooster chex the the flat profile the bristles is excellent. So I like to use that one. It's a little bit stiffer this than this one. So kind of depending on the paints I'm using. I also like um the Corona X brush. Those are three buck brushes I like doing my cutins with. I am using today I'm testing out um first time I've used this. I'm using a um pretty roller a 4-in roller with their jumbo roller which rolls over on the edges which is really good for doing the edges and stuff like this cuz the um the lint and the pile the fuzz goes on the edge of the roller. Kind of convenient. So here 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…

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