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Brush Handling and Storage Tips

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The presenter demonstrates a recommended way to hold a paintbrush for better control, suggesting holding it like a pencil with the index finger and thumb, allowing for light pressure. This technique offers more control than gripping the brush tightly. Additionally, a tip is provided for storing wet roller covers: place them into a brush baggie (or a Ziploc bag) and seal it, which keeps them from drying out overnight or between coats, allowing for reuse.

Goal: Improve painting technique and preserve tools.

Tools and materials

  • Brush Baggies — Storing wet roller covers and brushes to prevent drying
  • Paintbrush — Demonstrating proper grip
  • Roller Sleeve — Demonstrating storage

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the ceiling and we want the stippling to match if you just brush it it's gonna leave brushstrokes and these brush strokes won't match the stippling right here so we'll get you a four inch roller and so you can brush it and then back roll it I wanted to give you one tip when it comes to holding your brush so I like to hold my brush when I'm painting like this I kind of hold it in my hand it just kind of relaxes that's in my and just like this think sometimes I saw you holding the brush you don't have as much control over the brush kind of just like maybe like a pencil and I just hold it and it's kind of just lightly set in your hand not a whole lot of pressure but that's just a tip on how to hold it everybody ends up you know holding it how they like to hold it but what works for you but this is so your index finger with your thumb index finger once again and wrapped around up these are just loosely setting on the brush to help control it so just a little tip on brushes but you're doing excellent it's dry and really fast we'll be able to go around do our cut ends and cruise right along and get this thing finished alright McKenna we've got to our ceilings all done this is kind of cool so we got to trim all done we got our ceilings all done on the lower level unfortunately you have a two-story house but we'll start working on that upper-level later so we're going to get all the kind of the base that the paper pulled off from right here the baseboards we can mask the baseboards and start our start rolling the walls here in the bedroom so we do have our sprayer we're gonna be rolling upstairs and doing the ceilings upstairs later on we don't want our roller to dry out so you do have you have some brush baggies in your pocket there we go so give me one of those so these things are great so our roller if we let it's out here very long it's it's gonna end up drying out and these are expensive roller covers so the brush baggies work really really well in covering up your roller so I can just take a brush baggie just put it on here now I can just cover leave the roller sleeve on I can just zip lock this up right here and that's gonna seal that up and that will keep our roller from drying out right there pretty cool handy little tools brush baggies right there so now off to I think we're off to part five rolling the walls hopefully you guys enjoyed this video hope you've enjoyed watching Makenna painter house paint a room hopefully I like the color hopefully you like…

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