HOW TO CUT IN CEILINGS. DIY home improvement cut-in hacks and tips

this Christy Idaho painter in this video I'm going to go over doing ceiling cut ins and I'm going to give you a lot more tips and tricks on how to do ceiling cut in so they look perfectly straight like a professional did it so stay tuned for this video so in this video I'm going to give you several more tips and tricks to doing perfectly straight ceiling cut ends I do have a playlist that has about four or five cut in videos on it that will actually teach you how to do ceiling cut ends with a lot more tips and tricks this one I'm going to go over a couple other specific tips and tricks that's going to improve your cut ends so I'm going to go over some of the tools that I'm going to be using in this video to show you what I'm using that actually helps me do really really straight ceiling cut ends and they'll help you do a lot better ceiling cut ends they'll look just like mine so I'm going to go over some of these tools right now and one of them that I use it's one of the basics things is going to be just your cut in bucket and I've got a two gallon bucket I like using a two gallon bucket it has holds just to ride them out right amount of paint and inside of it I've got a grid a one-gallon bucket grid I've had some questions people want to know what that really looks like so I'm gonna pull it out right here I just had a comment on one of my cutting videos the other day asking if they could actually see the grid and here's the one gallon grid so use a two gallon bucket and I use a 1 gallon grid the 1 gallon grid just sits down in the bucket just right and it's light enough that it actually will cover my 4 inch roller and now so this is the roller them using and it's a Worcester 4 inch roller right here with the roller cover I like using the pretty white dove roller covers and I like a three inch roller cover and I use this to actually after I do my cut ends I use that to actually back roll back roll over it so when I roll my ceilings or roll my walls the stippling will actually match the walls when you roll the walls the cut in when you do the cut ends it's going to leave a brushstroke that goes across the ceilings but you want to stipple over that so it actually will match the stippling on the walls and then two of the tricks that I'm going to be showing you in this video are going to require a 5 and 1 tool and that's going to be to score an edge up there or a groove in your ceiling line that will give you the ability to do a really straight cut in got a caulking gun with clear caulking on some ceilings that are really bumpy and rough you're going to put or you can put a bead of clear caulking up there I'm going to show you that so those are a couple of accessories that I got with me that I want to be doing this and of course you got to have a brush I've got the two brushes that I'm using to do my ceiling cut ends they're actually Purdy brushes I do like pretty brushes I've used the looser brushes they're really good I haven't used a corona brushes I heard the chrome is a really good but depending on the paint you're using it will depend on the brush that I use and if the paint is a really thin paint I like using a soft or a medium stiff brush and the pretty XO glide right here is the brush I use when my paints are pretty thin if the paint's are pretty thick like this Benten of our ultra speck right here I'm going to use a stiff brush and I like using the pretty clear cut brush right here this is labeled a stiff brush that's a nylon polyester brush and I do use now I used to use just two and a half inch angled sash brushes I've stepped up I'm using the 3 inch brushes now the white of the brush is the farther your cut ends are going to go but I do like an angled sash brush because it can get into the corners a lot easier than just a space straight brush so I'm using this right here today I will be using the clear cut the pretty clear cut glide brush right here and the glide actually just refers to the handle and the width of the ferrule itself so got this right here all these tools if you're interested in purchasing the same tools that I've used in what I'm doing my ceiling cut inch you can check out my video description down there I'll leave a link to all these tools that I like that I've used and tested for a lot of years you could also go to my tool store on my website the idaho painter calm but now we're going to get to showing you how to do the sealing cuttings and make them look perfectly straight like a professional so I'm going to go over two new tips or tricks or hacks here there to give you really good sealing lines that how do questions on my previous videos on situations where the ceiling line or the 90-degree angle is extremely rough has a texture or C you got the popcorn ceilings and there's a couple of scenarios a couple things that will actually help you out to make those ceiling cut ends a lot easier for you and one of them is using a five and one tool and that's simple five and one right here I always carry one of these in my pocket is a painter there's a lot of things this can be used for but if you stick a 5-1 tool up in the corner of the 90 degree corner and you just score a little cut in there it's going to leave like this little trough where your brush can actually just cruise along that little score and it'll help you make a straight line so the ceiling up there there's a lot of texture if it's really rough you don't have a nice smooth 90 degree angle then just take your five and one score it and then do your cut in another option is to actually take and use a caulking gun and clear caulking but the problem with this is is you do have to wait for the caulking to dry so you have to do all your caulking of your ceiling and then wait a day and then come back and cut it in but that will actually give you a really really smooth 90-degree corner to be able to do really straight ceiling cut ends so really like that method like the option if your ceilings are really bumpy and you really want to have a perfectly straight line one of the things about it is just you just want to put a little small bead in there not too much caulking but use clear caulking let it dry and then do your cut in so I'm going to get up here and I'm going to show you what just scouring it looks like what it looks like to put the caulking on there and then we're going to do some cut ends so one of the obvious things that you're actually gonna have to have when you're doing your cut ends is the ladder because obviously it can't get up here and do by cuttings without having a ladder so I got a six-foot ladder here I'm going to be working with and got a caulking gun up here to show you this method and then I'm going to show you the five and one tool up here this is a pretty smooth 90 degree angle but if it was pretty rough I could just take my five and one I'm just going to stick here and just gouge it right there and it just leaves a little cut right there so once again I'm just gonna put it up here put a little bit of pressure and then just score it right down there and now I can just do my cut and take my brush in there and just run it right along that score it's not something that you can see you know from the video even if I got the the video up here close enough you're not going to be able to see it because it's really really microscopic it's just a little score and you don't want to see it anyways because it's really because it's a cut in the wall but the paint actually will just fill that little trough is you run it right across here but that's a really handy trick to do if you want to make your ceiling cut in straight now we're going to move on to the caulking method so if not we're going to do this option when it comes to caulking and this would be in extreme cases works really bumpy and they've got the spray texture or the texture up into that 90 degree corner up there I take and cut my caulking how I'm going to cut my tube it in a nice 45 degree angle there and really small then I'm going to put a small bead of clear talking up there and this go I don't want it to be very big it's just going to be a nice tiny little bead along there and then I would just take my finger and then just smooth that out and then I'm going to let that dry and it'll have a nice smooth rounded corner right there and it's going to make it so you're cut in your brush will run along this smooth edge and give you a really really nice straight line so now I'm going to get to doing the cut ends on the ceiling you can give you some tips and tricks doing the cut ends and I'm just going to put I put some paint my bucket I usually put you know a couple inches of paint in my pocket I don't want it up too high don't want it too low you want to have enough in there that you can work with and not having to throw your bucket all the time let me get my my roller all loaded up want that thing loaded up ready to use I think it's really important that you back brush your cut ends and then I'm going to get my brush full of paint and I like to just take dip my brush in here and I just Pat it on the side of my bucket so I'm just going to Pat it on the side get it loaded up Pat it on the side and then I'm ready to actually paint and couple it the tips to not spilling paint or getting paint dripped everywhere just take it load up your your brush don't want to get too much paint on it but get a little bit of paint on it Pat it to the side and as I move it to my area that I'm actually going to be painting I actually subconsciously I do because I've been paintin so long but you actually turn your brush or rotate your brush so it doesn't actually drip so I'm going to Pat it in here make sure it's not gripping and then I'm going to rotate my brush to where I'm going as long as your brush is rotating you can put a lot of paint on this thing and if I slit it set here it's it's going to start to drip but as long as I rotate this brush in different directions it will never drip so whatever taking my brush to my cutting area where I love you might cut in I'm actually rotating it it's a technique that I actually use when I'm rolling walls too or doing my cuttings with my for us I'm going to take my roller I'm gonna take it out of my pocket and I'm going to be rotating it as I go and it's just something I do now after so many years I'm subconsciously pulled out of my pocket and then rotate it so it's not going to do any clips as long as this thing is rotating it will never drip on your floor so I'm going to jump here and do my ceiling cut ends I do I think at least four or five videos on how to do ceiling cuttings that gives you a lot of tips and tricks more than what I'll show you even here so you've got to go check out my playlist on doing ceiling cut ends like a professional let me get it up here put my brush there and I actually get it away like a half an inch away from my cutting area and then I begin to work up to it and I drag my paint one way and typically it's going to go about you over a foot or so and then I'll come back the opposite direction and drag it back the opposite direction is typically your wall is going to have texture in it and as you're dragging your paint one way it's going to go over the top of the textures and leave some missed spots so you drag it one way drag it back the next way and after I drag it back the next way then I take and I back roll it they'll take and do a pulse a section I'm going to do this whole section would drag it one way let me come back and drag it another way now I'm going to do a little bit more drag it one way come back and drag it another way do this section over here would drag it one way and then drag it another way and then come back and back roll because this now is brushed and if I roll my walls now up to here you're going to see a different texture left by the paint from rolling at versus brushing it so I always go back and back roll it just like this they try to get as close as I can to the ceiling then I move on and do my next section just like that I'm going to come up turn your brush is your common one leg go back the other way just like that and then you're going to back roll it and just like that that's how you do your ceiling cut ends now you typically like the method of ceiling cuttings that I do I like my my cutting especially if you got really bumpy ceilings or corners I like my paint to go up on to the ceiling very slightly versus down on to the wall only slightly because it goes up onto the ceiling a little bit when you're looking at it it will always look straighter than if it's below the ceiling a little bit you'll see if crooked line a lot better so I'm always citing to getting my paint onto the ceiling versus keeping it down to the wall okay I gotta get another section again just going to give you one last demonstration again I'm just going to take dip my brush into my paint I'm going to Pat it on the sides make sure my brushes load it up and now they carry it to where I'm going I'm going to take it get it about an inch or so from my cutting area and then I'm going to work up to the cut in glide it right along my ceiling it's going to go about a foot or so before it starts to run out of paint before it starts to run out of paint just take and cut it back the opposite direction and then you're going to back row up to me this back rolling process is extremely important to that roll this to eliminate haloing or any type of color difference when you're actually brushing it versus rolling it it lays out the tint in a different way so you could actually get a color difference where you've actually brushed it versus where you actually rolled your wall so to me I really think it's an important process to actually bath roll that and then the next step would be to begin rolling your walls if you're you know the only person working on a room I like to before this actually dries I like to roll my wall so if you do the whole ceiling I can actually do a whole bedroom basically a 10 by 10 or 12 by 12 bedroom I can cut that whole ceiling in it'll still be wet then I can start rolling on the walls because I can do it really fast I've got a lot of experience but if you're just learning and your cuttings are really slow by the time you get around the room this is going to be dry and it could give you a haloing of fact where you see the color difference where you rolled it where you cut it in versus where you rolled it so I would just as a one-man show just do one wall at a time so I want to cut this ceiling in right here this wall and then before it before I turn the corner I'm going to roll this wall and then move on to the next wall and one of the tips to actually doing the cut ends I think I've discussed it once before and one of my cut in videos is to actually hold your breath so when you're doing your cut in get it up there and just hold your breath do your cut in and it because it while you're breathing it has a tendency to actually make your cut ends a little bit crooked until you get a lot more experience doing your cut ends and you could actually breathe and talk and like I'm actually doing and doing them but it's took in me years and years I've been miles and miles of doing ceiling cuttings to get them straight like this this is Chris Janna hope Ainur giving you more ceiling cutting tips to help your painting look just like a professional did it was it that just the dopest video don't yeah don't forget that at the end to like comment share it you know whatever you want to do like and subscribe yeah yeah

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Length: 15min 50sec (950 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 15 2016