Mask and Cut Around Fixtures

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What happens here

To protect ceiling fixtures like fans and smoke detectors, use masking paper and tape. For ceiling fans, wrap masking paper around the blades and light covers. For smaller fixtures like smoke detectors, a brush is used to 'cut in' carefully around them, ensuring no paint gets on the fixture itself. It's noted that a 4-inch roller can also be used for detailed areas around fixtures after brushing.

Goal: Protect fixtures and paint intricate areas.

Tools and materials

4-inch Roller — Rolling small areas around fixtures to match texture
Brush — Cutting in around smoke detectors and other small fixtures
Hand Masker — Applying masking paper and tape to protect surfaces
Masking Paper — Covering fan blades and light fixtures
Painter's Tape — Securing masking paper

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lights be very careful because the blade is really sharp I'm just gonna set piece of paper on here just tack it on just like that just flip the blade next blade this way so now we won't give any splatters on that this part of the light we're just gonna hand cut around that all right so we're just rolling right along McKenna but with our power roller or inner fender Oller we can't get close to like our lights we got your ceiling fan in the middle we've got an alarm right here and then we also can't get close as close to our edge so what we want to do is just you'll brush all of our edges we want to just take it down you know just you know like an inch down the wall because now we're going to come back once that dries we do our second coat then we're gonna roll our walls and hand cut in our ceilings but you want to be very careful paint around you know these fixtures right here don't get any paint on them but just cut around them and just like this got a nice soft brush and you're gonna have to do two coats so put on you know one coat and then we'll roll it and we'll use a four inch roller so you want to brush it and then we'll back roller because it's gonna be stipple just like the ceiling and we want the stippling to

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