Secure the Paint Brush During Roller Application

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How to paint a straight line. Tips cutting in ceilings like a professional painter.

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What happens here

Once a section of cut-in is completed, you'll likely switch to a roller for the main wall area. To keep the paintbrush clean and ready, securely hang it in the paint bucket. The speaker demonstrates holding the paint bucket handle with his first three fingers and using his thumb and another finger to secure the brush so it hangs in the middle of the bucket without touching the paint. This prevents the brush from getting excessively messy or falling into the main paint supply. When you need to load the roller, simply tilt the brush to the side.

Goal: Learn how to securely hold the paintbrush in the paint bucket while using a roller for back-rolling, preventing messes and keeping the brush ready.

Tools and materials

Paint Brush Purdy — Securing within the bucket
Paint Bucket Unspecified — Holding the brush and paint
Paint Roller Unspecified — Back-rolling the wall area
Paint Unspecified — Rolling the wall

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Now I'm going to talk about how I actually hold the brush in my bucket when I'm actually doing my back rolling with my roller. So once I got my cut in done with my brush up there a length uh usually about twice as much as is that then I go back and back roll it with my roller. And when I'm back rolling it, I don't want my brush to be inside my bucket of paint cuz then it's going to get paint all over the brush and it's going to get all messy and and make a big mess. So, I actually hold my brush with my bucket just like this. So, I got the brush got my bucket in one hand and I'll show you right here. My brush is held with this finger and my thumb secured in the bucket just like that. So, it's held with these two fingers right here. So, I secure my bucket with the two my first three fingers right here in the handle. And then I put my brush inside there and it hangs right in the middle. I'll try to give you a little bit better view once I get up this ladder what that looks like. But now I can sit there and load up my roller and then do my back brushing or back rolling. So when I go to put my roller inside my bucket, all I do is just tilt my brush to the side and then I can hang or actually load my roller up. You always want to have a roller that has a roller frame that has some type of hooks that you can actually hook your roller on the inside of your bucket. Just like that, so your roller can hang while you're actually using your brush and doing your cut ends with your brush. So once again, I'm going to

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