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Understand Lap Marks and Wet Edge Principle

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STOP Lap Marks. Tips PRO's Use To Paint Perfect Walls.

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The presenter begins by explaining what lap marks, also known as haloing or hat banding, are: visible lines on a painted wall. He illustrates how these occur when rolling over paint that has already dried. The main cause is failing to maintain a "wet edge" during the painting process. He shows a wall where sections have dried, highlighting how rolling new paint next to a dry section will inevitably result in a visible line.

Goal: Identify common painting flaws and understand the importance of a wet edge.

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did somebody recently ask me why they're getting lights on their walls when they're rolling the walls and here's you know a great color a great example and I'll give you some tips and tricks how to not have that happen and in the lines and the walls we call them lap marks um some of them we call it haloing um hat banding there's a lot of different terminology terminology you can use but one of the major causes for it is not keeping a wet Edge so I've

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