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Perfect the Line and Hold Your Breath

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

What happens here

After laying down the initial line, the painter goes back over it in the opposite direction to ensure there are no missed spots or pinholes. He demonstrates "drawing" the line with the brush. He shares a personal technique of holding his breath while drawing the straight line with the brush to maintain steadiness and precision. He advises to hold the breath, cut the line, and then breathe again.

Goal: Achieve a smooth, continuous, and straight cut-in line.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Brushrefining paint lines
  • Paintfor painting walls and ceilings

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about an inch away from my my ceiling, and then I'm going to work it up to the ceiling, and I'm going to get it started. And then I'm going to start running it along my ceiling just like that. Uh, and then after I cut it in one direction, I go back and just make sure there was no miss spots and check my cut in like that. And then eventually I'm going to take my nap and back roll my cut in up to about a half inch away from the ceiling. So I'm going to get it up here and then I'll reach over here and I'm going to reach from this direction and move back to my other cutting I just created. So, I'm going to get it up there, work it up to the ceiling, and then a little bit about breathing. Once I get it to the ceiling, I typically will hold my breath and then begin to draw my line with my brush. I like to describe as drawing a line because I'm actually drawing a line with a brush. So, get it up there, hold your breath, cut your line, and then breathe again. So, get it up here, work it up here, and then hold your breath. Just like that, I drew my line. Now, there's a few little light pin holes and miss spots that the brush didn't get into cuz sometimes the brush going one direction will go over the top of some little hills and valleys. So, you just load your brush up again, go back the opposite direction. But when you go back the opposite direction to fill in those little pin holes, you don't get near your cut in. You'll stay about an eighth of an inch away from your cut in. So now I got the cut in done. I'm going to go back and back roll it. And now ideally somebody should be following you up and rolling this wall so you don't get what we call haloing. And that's discussed in another subject.

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