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Cutting In the Ceiling to Paint a Living Room

Hello, my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I'm representing Expert Village.com. Now we're going to go over a few of the tips you need to remember whenever you're cutting in your ceiling. Now, in the center of the room you'll find a chandelier, a light, or like in this case, a vent. Now, if you feel that that can be painted over or even part of it needs to be painted use you're best judgment on that, but most of the time you're going to want to just cut around that and give enough room so you can roll around it comfortably. So, what you need to do first, is get a good full brush and the way to do that is to pat that brush on the side of your cup pot. now when you do that you're pushing paint into the brush, therefore, when I'm holding my brush like this you see nothing is dripping out. When you stick that brush in there without doing that you see it runs out of it. But when you pat it into the sides that holds it then you can control that paint when you're painting. Then you want to just start painting along the edge and just cut that in nice and then paint a nice full line all across with your brush. Now when you take, when a brush goes on a wall, you see there I've made a mark, every time you put that brush on that wall it's making a mark. But, when you pull that brush off that wall that mark comes off. This is how you lay out paint, that's what is called laying out the paint so that these lines are even without any of those marks and that's what our goal is here. Then make sure you use lots of paint, that's the trick, that's what keeps it all moving. Then go ahead a pull that line all the way down. And we're going to pull that line down. Now we're also going to go down here in just a second and cut in that corner and I'll show you a little bit on how to handle the tape. Right now we want to focus on pulling this line on down as far as we can reach on a ladder. Sometime it helps just to grab one more rung, and I'm going to do that right now. And you see I can stretch pretty far and get down there and then I can even that on out. Now when ever I'm going on the wall it's making a mark and when I'm coming off the wall it's that taking that mark off. You see here, I'm going like that, I'm making marks and I'm evening that out, I'm just getting my paint on there. I've got all these little marks up along here so I take my brush, I lay all that paint out evening that all out. All those marks come out of there and make a nice smooth line. Now that's a difference between a professional paint job and something that anybody can do. Now, I'm going to take that down to the corner here. Now here I'm coming up on a tape spot. You see there where the tape is? Now, tape doesn't mean what a lot of people think, it isn't like you just want to go ahead and paint and slop up on the paint. If you do you're going to get a pretty ragged line. Now, you want to cut into the tape but if you rub up on the tape you're going to be OK. And that's the way you cut in a tape line. So just pull that line along the tape and cut in that tape line. Well, our lines look pretty straight, time to move my ladder and then I'm going to carry this on down the wall. But these are the things you need to remember whenever you're cutting in the ceiling in the interior living room.

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