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Let’s talk ceiling cut ins! #painter

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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This project demonstrates an efficient technique for painting walls, specifically focusing on how to manage cut-in areas (edges) when applying multiple coats to the main wall surfaces but typically only one coat to the cut-ins. The process involves rolling the main wall paint as close as possible to the pre-painted edges and then precisely touching up any light spots on the cut-ins after the main coats are completely dry. This method aims to achieve a uniform, professional finish while minimizing the time spent on intricate edge work and highlights the importance of using good quality paint to reduce the need for extensive touch-ups.

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If I'm two coating my walls and I'm one coating my cut-ins, well, what if I get light spots, do I two coat my cut-ins? So all this, I'm going to roll all the way up here, as high as I can and I'm going to roll my walls and I'm going to come up about this far and I've got some tips and tricks on how you actually do that and consistently get that close. Now, I can see already, you know, there's some light areas right here and I always go back when everything's dry, that's the very last thing I do, I'll go back and touch up my cut-ins. There will only be certain spots that need to be touched out and I don't touch them up in the same direction, I just come back and touch them up going down and I'll show you what that looks like on the opposite side of the room here, worth the walls are dry and I've got to touch up cut-ins but I just touch up, I don't re-cut in everything so it goes like extremely fast and that's what if you use a low-end paint that doesn't cover very well you're going to have touch ups all over the rail but if you...

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