Paint Straight Lines with a Paint Edger

The Paint Pad Edger

The most common type of paint edger. These tools use either a “guide” or better, wheels to maintain a precise distance to the adjacent surface. You must keep the guide or wheels clean from paint (while loading the pad with paint), or you will have a mess.

Loading and Using

Using a paint pan, dip the tips only of the pad into the paint, then wipe off the excess on the roller grid. Start with the pad away from the adjacent wall or trim, place the pad on the wall and bring it toward the adjacent wall/trim until the guide or wheels make contact. Pull the pad across the wall using the wheels as you guide until you need to reload with paint. Re-dip and repeat.

The Accubrush

The Accubrush makes several improvements over the basic pad edger. It combines the speed and high loading capacity of the roller with the precision of the pad (or short brush in this case), to make a faster cutting in tool that requires less dipping than a pad painter does.

The Accubrush works well with a paint extension pole (as demonstrated in the video), and is suitable for professional or DIY'er use. This is a heavy duty painting tool, not intended to be used once and thrown away.

Whereas, cutting in with the standard paint pad edger is a bit slow, the Accubrush is actually faster than cutting in with a brush.

Save time

The swivel handle on the XT pole acceptable model makes using a pole very do-able. For an edger to be useable with a roller you must have the maneuverability that the ball swivel allows on the XT model. You can cut in at the ceiling without getting up on a ladder. Roll the cut in with the Accubrush from the floor, then switch to a standard 9” roller and roll out the walls. Note: you will need to cut in the corner of the wall / ceiling by hand with a brush. See How to Paint a Straight Line for tips on painting clean cut in lines with a brush.

If you can’t paint straight lines with a brush -free handed, there is another way: the paint edger.

You don’t need to have nerves of steel or use masking tape in order to achieve an acceptable cut in line with a paint edger.

The most common type is the two wheel edger, it has been around for years. It gets the job done. A new edger, the Accubrush has come into the marketplace lately, with some notable improvements over the standard pad edger.

Most pad edgers do a good job of creating clean lines, but they don’t cover as well as a brush or roller, nor do they hold as much paint, requiring more dipping and reloading.

Threaded for a Paint Pole

These are primarily hand tools, even though they can be attached to a paint extension pole, they are not easy to work with from a pole. The more "deluxe" models have a swivle handle that acts as kind of a "shock absorber" allowing for smoother painting.

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Paint Straight Lines Using a Paint Edger

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