Painting Straight Lines

[Andy78]

Thanks for your help guys.

I painted the ceiling first. After a few days I masked up the ceiling then painted the walls another colour. I did 2 coats around the edges. After the second coat whilst the paint was still relatively wet I removed the tape without any paint peeling off both walls and ceiling.

[AlexJ66]

Andy, have you tried those pads with the little wheels on the side?

I used those in our previous house for feature walls, and the new place for cutting in where the wall meets the cornices, and it works great. A lot faster and easier for using a brush, well for us amateaurs anyway

[JDarvall]

things that work for me...

focus on locking the wrist and elbow and moving the whole arm and body at the same time

Load the brush well on one side. ie. dip it about 1/3 of the bristles in, wipe it on one side, and then I present the unwiped side to the wall.

But when you put the brush on, place it off the line a bit, and watch how the paints swells up under the brush,,,,and then move the brush maintianing this swell at the very tip off one corner of the brush.....so you gotta get your eye in close.....you don't want the swell to be too great or else it'll drip to the floor.

The gist of it is......your squeezing at one side of the brush at all times to push the paint to the very corner your running the line on, so its kept loaded for as long as possible......cause its the stopping/re-dipping of the brush/finding where you left off process that kills the line.

But when theres no paint swell at the tip of the brush.....stop and redip...else you painting blind since the paints going onto the wall from under the bristles where you can't see.

Goodluck. I hate painting, despite it being my current job (just another week to go thank god).