Back-Roll to Blend Textures

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Perfect Ceiling Cut Ins. Painting A Straight Line On A Wall. How to cut in paint edges.

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What happens here

The painter explains the importance of "back-rolling" the cut-in area. After cutting in, he takes a roller (implied, as he holds a brush but refers to a nap/roller) and rolls the cut-in area up to about a half-inch away from the ceiling. This technique "stipples" the brush stroke, blending its texture with the texture created by a roller on the main wall, thus avoiding a noticeable "halo" effect where the brush-painted edge meets the rolled wall. He mentions that ideally, a second person would follow up with the roller to achieve this blend immediately.

Goal: Blend the brush-painted cut-in with the rolled wall texture to prevent "haloing."

Tools and materials

Paint Brush — initial cut-in, Paint Roller (Nap) Unknown
Paint — for painting walls and ceilings

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And that's discussed in another subject. But if you're doing it yourself, your cut ends just go from you know one wall at a time. So, I'm going to do my ceiling cut ends, then I'm going to roll my wall and then move to the next wall. So, I'm going be working my way this way. Going to start from this side, work my way to this corner right here. I'm just going to get my brush loaded up, get my bristles set, get them right up next to my ceiling, and I'll begin drawing my line. I wanted to make this video because I wanted to, you know, u make it pretty a pretty important subject or pretty important tip to it to doing ceiling lines to actually get a straight line. One of the most important things to get a straight line is choosing the actual right brush for the paint you're

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