How to Paint Edges Without Tape - Cutting In Tutorial

hi there my name is Nils from DIY nails calm and in this video professional painter Chris berry otherwise known as the Idaho painter is going to show us how to cut in ceilings and edges like a professional [Music] just about everybody has to paint a room at some point in their lives and if you haven't you probably will if you have painted a room you know how frustrating it can be to not have nice clean edges you put tape on you try to make a nice clean line and sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't so Chris the Idaho painter is gonna show us in this video how to cut a nice line with a brush there are several tips and techniques that he uses as a professional painter to get professional results he's also going to explain to us in this video why he doesn't use an edging tool that you can buy at the store but prefers to cut in with a brush to do a faster and better job let's take a look this Christian awho painter in this video I'm gonna give the viewers of D my eye Nils some tips and pointers how to do sealing cuttings like a professional painter at the end of this video if you haven't subscribed to his channel don't forget to subscribe to this channel if you want more tips and tricks painting you can go check out my child the Idaho painter so now stay tuned here we go we're gonna give you some tips and tricks on how to do sealing cuttings just like a pro so the first thing is is the brush you're never gonna get a really good strength sealing cut in line or cut in lines on anything you do if you don't have a good quality brush and one of the things who are you actually looking for and a good quality brush is having good quality sharp bristles now if you purchase a cheap brush what you're actually gonna see with a cheap brush is if you look really closely if that bristles are gonna be just cut off and they'll be blunt and not having a really sharp bristle you can't get a really sharp straight cut in line so my quality brushes are gonna have bristles that are gonna come to a really fine point and they're gonna be basically a sharp little point another thing you'll see at the end of the brush if you look at the brush you'll see that it just has a nice taper too and really cheap brushes they could just be flat or they could just be really uneven so I'm gonna look at the brush it has a really nice good taper to it this is a high quality brush I also like a brush that's actually an angled sash brush I use a 3-inch angled sash clear cut brush when I'm doing my cuttings so one other thing I'm actually looking for when it comes to a brush we're doing cut ends I like actually stiff brushes really soft brushes like nylon brushes are really difficult because flimsy to actually making a nice good straight line so I want a really stiff brush and this brush that I actually use this pretty clear-cut brought pretty clear-cut brush is classified as a stiff brush so we start might cut it and hook at a corner right here and one of the reasons why I like an angled sash brush and that's that brush that's actually just cut at an angle is it's a lot easier to start and work in two corners and then work your way out so I'm going to load up my brush get it up here I'm gonna get it but an inch just top down here inch away work it into this corner so I can get this corner started right here load up my brush again and the one thing one of the key things is when you start your cuttings don't try to stretch them out too far you can typically take a loaded brush and cut about about 12 inches and then reload it somewhere about six to twelve inches how I'm actually loaded and up I just dip it in here just hide it on both sides and they'll start like copper here so I'm going to start give it about an inch away from where my yokai dens gonna start then I'm going to begin working my way up to it and then just start my cot and then I'll just cut back the opposite direction now I've got this section right here that actually can just back roll [Music] now I'd like to get about a quarter inch away from you were might cut in this and then just roll my paint out and feather it out so once again just going to take just load my brush up I've just said dip it in there if I brush about you'll get about a half an inch and the bristles down into the paint and I'm gonna paddle on both sides of my bucket and then I'm gonna get to be in my car so I'm going to set it up here get it about an inch away and then I'll start working my way to my cut in and then I'll pop out the opposite direction [Music] the reason why you cut back the opposite direction is typically like to beat up walls that are texture it's gonna when you're going one direction it kind of misses some little holes and spots go in the one direction you cut back the opposite direction it'll fill those and there's another tip when you're actually doing your cut ends - until you you know are really comfortable to get really good it's a good idea you actually hold your breath heis you're actually doing the cut and then take a breath and then cut back the opposite opposite direction and then breathe if you hold your breath you'll typically have a steady or hand another key element to doing a nice good straight cut in mind is actually keeping a nice steady pace if you go too slow your lines gonna end up being just jagged and or crooked want to just get that you don't want to go too fast but you don't want to go too slow when I'm doing my cutting I'm actually not using the whole brush I'm actually using just basically the tip of the brush and I'm the only using maybe about a quarter of the brush to do the cut and so what happens is I'm actually not using the whole brush it's actually just the tip and you're basically kind of just drawing a line of just the tip of your brush so one last final shot right here just got load up my brush another key thing just last simple tip is just try not to stretch out you know your paint on your brush and a lot of amateurs will just try to you know you know kind of line way too far you always want to say with rolling their walls and anything is always keep loading up your roller keep loading up your roller or keep loading up your brush just always keep enough paint on there so I do occasionally get asked if I ever use these edging tools and these are some tools that actually design to actually you know cut straight lines around door frames window frames and even says on this one ceilings and baseboards and I have actually tried them in the past but I don't use them and this is kind of why once you learn how to actually cut in a ceiling line with a brush or actually use clear coffee and then tape and tape your lines and cut you could actually paint a lot faster or not say like three to four times faster than you could actually paint with one of these things so it's it comes down to one thing is actually speed and then it also comes down to your expectations as a professional painter we could actually create way straighter lines crisper lines lines that look a lot nicer using caulking and tape or even hand cutting in our ceilings then you can actually top these things there's a lot of variables that are gonna cause these things do not actually get a straight line or really crisp line and unless you have they just the ideal scenario where you got a square door jamb and it's got a 90-degree corner and it's got flat texture then the things not going to function as well as that's actually advertised typically when you're seeing these videos these things are being used they're they've created this ideal scenario for this thing to actually function and do a perfect line but in the real world that's typically only going to happen if no more than 10% of the time so we definitely we try to stay away from these things if you want to make money as a professional painter this thing's never gonna make you money is it a tool that do-it-yourselfers can use and might function well it actually it must because I do get a lot of feedback that people actually like them they work well but we don't use them there you have it there are some tips and tricks to making your cut-ins look like a professional painter if you've got any tips and drinks yourself don't forget just leave them in the comments below Nils and I would love to read your comments and answer and reply to all of them and if you haven't subscribed to Nils tab don't forget to subscribe to this channel if you want more pick more painting tips and tricks come check out my channel the Idaho pain on YouTube I want to give a huge thank you to Chris the Idaho painter for showing us some tips and tricks on cutting in I actually watched a lot of his videos before I did my last project which involved a lot of painting around trim and around the ceiling and use those same cutting tips and techniques and it saved me a lot of time from having to tape and mask everything like Chris mentioned be sure to check out his channel the Idaho painter for all your painting needs anything that you want to learn for your next paint project he's got you covered if you want to learn about home improvement projects and DIY projects for around the house check out my channel and be sure to subscribe and you can also check out my website at DIY milcom thank you so much for watching give a thumbs up if you liked this video and we'll see you next time

Channel: LRN2DIY

Views: 1,475,939

Keywords: nils, nilsandkatrina, how-to, paint, edge, edges, cut-in, cutting in, cut in, diy, no masking, tape, taping, brush, straight, line

Id: Oiw9BY7_K9s

Length: 9min 59sec (599 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 11 2017