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Utilize Brush Toe for Textured Surfaces

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

What happens here

The presenter demonstrates how to effectively use the 'toe' (pointed end) of an angled paintbrush when cutting in on textured walls. By leading with the toe, the bristles gain additional stiffness, allowing for better paint penetration into the valleys and past the peaks of the textured surface, ensuring a more complete and uniform paint application.

Goal: Achieve complete paint coverage on textured surfaces when cutting in.

Tools and materials

  • Angle Paintbrush
  • Paint
  • Stepladder

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that we're going to give you here when I'm cutting in, you've got different parts on your brush. You've got the toe, which is the point on an angle brush, and you've got the heel. I like leading with the toe sometimes. And what that does is that creates a little bit more spring in the bristle, which when you're working with a textured wall, especially a heavily textured wall, makes your brush bristle a little bit stiffer and helps push that paint up into those uh those valleys past the peaks. and I'll leave with that point. I'll start a little pull up, and then I'll bring it up. And that adds that nice stiffness. And especially if you're using a a nylon or polyester blend brush, eventually those bristles end up becoming softer over time as you're using them. And that gives a little bit more stiffness while you're working on it through the day or if you've got a really rough texture. So

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