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Understand the Importance of a Wet Edge

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Keeping A Wet Edge While Rolling A Wall. Proper Paint Rolling. How to roll a wall.

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The presenter, Chris, introduces the concept of keeping a 'wet edge' when painting and rolling walls. He explains that a wet edge means ensuring the paint remains wet as you work, allowing it to flow and gel together seamlessly. This prevents unsightly lap marks or streaks from forming on the drying paint. He notes that painters typically work either from right to left or left to right, depending on convenience.

Goal: Learn the fundamental concept of maintaining a wet edge.

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This is Chris. In this video, I'm going to talk to you about what it is to keep a wet edge in painting and rolling walls. And keeping a wet edge, you're going to be painting in whatever room you're going to be painting in. You're going to be working from right to left or left to right, whatever is convenient for you. And in this room here, I'm working from left to right. And keeping a wet edge is working from whatever you're going left to right, right to left, and you're keeping your paint wet. and you're not allowing it to dry or not you're not putting the paint on too thin that it won't flow together. So in this

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