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Precisely Paint Around the Fan

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Painting HIGH Ceilings. How to paint hard to reach areas. Painting with a brush holder.

What happens here

Using the extended pole with the brush holder and brush, the painter carefully maneuvers to cut in around the ceiling fan's escutcheon plate. He applies paint slowly and steadily, adjusting the angle of the brush holder as needed to achieve a clean line. He starts on one side, working his way around the plate, ensuring precision and avoiding contact with the fan's light fixture or blades. He advises taking your time and having 'steady hands' and mentions that getting within 'an eighth of an inch' is sufficient due to the height.

Goal: Apply paint accurately around the ceiling fan's mounting plate.

Tools and materials

  • Wall paint — For painting the ceiling

What they say

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eight foot extension pole. Just take your time. Go slow. There's no hurry. You just don't want to touch the light. And all you got to do is just get like within an eighth of an inch cuz it's so high. Nobody can tell. Just make adjustments to your brush just to get around. Work around the area you need to work around. Just use your pole to just move around the fan. Did one of these a few days ago that was even higher. It's probably like even 5t higher. You can see just working really slow, cutting it in. Just got to take your time. Have a steady hand. Just working around the furniture. We thought we'd have to move the furniture and uncover it, but it's been working just fine. We're able to reach without it. So, it's a good idea to have this stuff covered just in case you drip any paint or drop your brush or if any accidents happen. See, now we're on the opposite side of the light. And now we'll start cutting around this side right here. So, you just set your brush few inches away from the plate and you kind of start slowly working to the plate. The scotch and plate.

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