Mastering Ceiling Cutting In! Cut in Tips from The Idaho Painter.

[Applause] [Music] this christy idaho hope here on paint live tv i've got another cut in tip video cutting tips uh the most popular tips or most popular videos that i do on paint light tv and i've got a lot of questions in regards to do i two coat my cut-ins now i'm working on an accent wall right here and um i've got multiple scenarios on this accent wall we got a window we've got beadboard we've got two um edges to our accent wall and then we got a cut in right here so kind of encompasses you know all the scenarios you'll run into when it comes to cut-ins now i'll address the window first so we have you can see i'm keeping my paint about a 16th of an inch away from my tape on my first coat now as a professional painter 99 of the time we're going to be two coating our walls it always takes two coats to cover a hundred percent and give a good quality finish so we're always accustomed doing two coats if you on your first coat if you run your paint onto your tape from your wall to your tape and you cover that whole area up what's going to happen that's going to dry you're going to put on your second coat and then you're going to pull your masking and that first coat of paint has dried from your tape to your wall it's going to when you pull your tape off it's going to peel off the the paint in certain areas like shark's teeth and it's going to leave these jagged edges all over the place and that's very frustrating and it's got to be touched up and so it's one of the reasons why i you know teach and coach that we always pull our masking before our paint is dried and if we're caulking our masking before our caulking dries because it applies to caulking too so we don't have to worry about our paint drying onto our tape on our first coat because we are not touching our um tape with our first coat so you can see on the bead board you can see on the edges right here first coat has not touched our tape now that fine line right there on our second coat the paint that we're using for this accent wall covers amazing um we're using a paint that covers extremely well it will cover that sixteenth of an inch or that eighth of an inch little white um spot right there and one coat no problem you'll never have to go back and touch that up if you're applying your paint properly when it comes to the ceiling cut-ins the ceiling cutter is a little bit different um we're cutting in and then we're typically back rolling with a four-inch roller on our first coat on my first coat i am taking it all the way to the ceilings i know these ceilings if you're going to look closely zoom in on this they are extremely bumpy they're extremely crooked i didn't try to get my ceiling cut-ins perfect on my first coat my second coat i'm gonna apply and um and do my cut-ins on the second coat i'm gonna touch my tape touch my ceilings and then while that's still wet i'm gonna begin rolling the wall i'm going to be overlapping all that while it's wet and then i'll pull my masking so it will all come off and i won't have any bridging eventually you know this is all going to dry and we're going to evaluate our cut-ins and see our ceiling cut-ins if we need to go back and touch those up now there are scenarios where we are we're doing our cut-ins and then we're roll or we're rolling our first coat on a wall and then we're doing our cut ends and then we're doing our second coat and people ask me do you go back and two coat the cut-ins after that because typically when i'm doing my ceiling cut-ins themselves i'm trying to one coat the ceiling cut-ins but there's always probably 90 of the time there's always going to be touch-ups on the ceiling cuttings you don't have to go back and re-cut it all in and re-roll it with a four-inch roller but you'll do touch-ups and i'm gonna show you what the touch-ups look like i'm gonna get up right here this ceiling is pretty crooked because i haven't um i actually haven't done my two coat but i'm gonna give you an idea what i do cut in touch up wise now i can see light spots right here and you can't see those light spots from down below but this would kind of represent um if this wall was all done and i had light spots on my cuttings i'm not going to go back and re-cut it all in because of these light spots but my brush strokes goes in that direction it's going back and forth my roller's coming up to about here so there's going to be just touch-ups in this slight area right here what i do is i just take and i'm going to brush in the opposite direction instead of going back and forth any light spots i see i'm going to brush in a downward motion just like this and this is how i do my cut-ins and it goes a lot faster or how i do my touch-ups goes a lot faster than re-cutting it all in so i'm just going to go along just like this and do any light spot touch-ups along the ceiling and that's what i would consider right there my uh two coat on my cut-ins so um i'll just walk you through this real quickly this scenario itself to try to give you an understanding of it all it wants i'm going to come in mask everything off i'm going to roll a first coat on my walls get a first coat then i'm going to come back and i'm going to do sealing cut ins and any type of trim door jam window trim cut-ins move my way down the wall while that stuff is wet still wet i'm going to pull my tape pull my masking it's all going to dry and then i'm not going to have to two coat any of this stuff because the method i use by just staying away from my tape but my ceiling cut-ins i will go back and just touch them up in this fashion just like that just in a downward stroke along there and using a good quality paints um and using that method with a good quality brush you're not going to see any of those touch-ups that you do i've been doing that method for you know over 20 years on all kinds of accent colors vibrant colors ultra deep colors deep colors and it's always worked without seeing it some simple little tips and tricks on your cut-ins so there you have it some more tips and tricks doing uh interior cut ends applies interior exterior cuttings if you've got any tips and tricks you want to share just leave it down in the comments section below i learn from you just like you learn from us we like to just share information we share it with you you share it with us and we all become better painters if you've enjoyed this video if it's helped you at all don't forget hit the subscribe button hit the notification bell that way you get notified every time i come out with a new video it's free simple and easy to do it's just a simple way to help support our channel um at no cost to you other than your time in two clicks and like we always say we'll see you next time on our next project right here on paid life tv