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Perform Cut-Ins Around Edges and Obstacles

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HOW TO ROLL A WALL Tips painting walls with a roller. How to paint a room.

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What happens here

Before rolling the main wall, perform all necessary cut-ins. Use a smaller 4-inch roller, like a Purdy white dove nap, for areas near baseboards and around outlets. For precise edges and corners, utilize a 2.5-inch angled sash brush, such as a Purdy nylon polyester brush. To protect flooring and baseboards from drips, apply 9-inch paper and 1-inch painter's tape along the edges. Roll and brush carefully around all light switches and wall plates.

Goal: Precisely paint edges and around fixtures before rolling the main wall

Tools and materials

  • 1-inch Painter's Tape — Securing the paper and masking off areas
  • 2.5-inch Angled Sash Brush — Achieving sharp lines in corners and along trim
  • 4-inch White Dove Nap Roller Purdy — Painting smaller areas and edges
  • 9-inch Paper — Protecting baseboards and flooring from paint drips
  • Paint — Painting the cut-in areas

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In this task, we were using a pretty 4 in um white dove nap, which is a 3/8 inch nap. I've got a pretty um 2 and 1/2 in angled sash brush, nylon polyester brush. We've got a pretty 9in nap and roller with a pan that is a 3/8 inch roller, too. And inside the pan, we use um these throwaway tray liners that so we don't get paint on our pan. And that's another good um item to have so you don't have to clean out your pans at the end of the day. And um to start off, we've actually rolled one coat on this wall already, and I'm going to be rolling a second coat. But prior to doing the second coat, we do our ceiling cut in, bottom cutins, and then we roll the wall. So, I'm going to come along here and do my cut ends real fast. And then I'm going to roll the wall after I do the cut ends. That way, we won't see the this line on the cut ends cuz the nap going this way actually stipples the paint going this way. So, I just did the ceiling cutins a few minutes ago. Now I'm going to be doing baseboard cutins and wall cutins. And I always roll around the light switches and light plates prior to rolling the wall.

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