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Cut In Edges (First Pass)

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Painting Walls LIke a Professional Painter: Start to Finish

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What happens here

After the first coat has dried (typically around 30 minutes to an hour for a thin coat), begin cutting in the edges. This involves using a paint brush to create clean lines where the wall meets the ceiling and where it meets the baseboards. Work systematically, completing all ceiling cut-ins, then all baseboard cut-ins, and finally around doors and windows. When cutting in, work one wall at a time or, if working with a team, do up to two walls at a time to ensure the paint stays wet enough for the next step.

Goal: Paint precise edges around ceilings, baseboards, and fixtures.

Tools and materials

  • Ladder or Step Stool Little Giant — Reaching high areas for ceiling cut-ins
  • Paint Brush Premier — Cutting in around edges and corners
  • Paint Pail — Holding a small amount of paint for cutting in
  • White Interior Paint — Paint for cutting in

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scrape any texture imperfections are what we would call boogers on the wall and that's just drips of paint it could be um big hard chunks of um texture that somebody painted over previously I just take and have a 5 in one tool I use the scraping part of it to do any type of scraping we are going to be painting in here you definitely want to have drop floss cover the room this type of Runner right here I use a cover grip these are nonslip drop cloths right here excellent

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