Paint edging kit

[pinnerite]

I have never used a paint edging kit. Are they any good or should i go back to tape and roller?

TIA

[Chris Bacon]

I've never even heard of a "paint edging kit". Don't you normally cut in, then roll?

[newshound]

There are gadgets vaguely like a plasterer's float that you hold in place and paint up to and over, like "temporary tape". The ones I have tried suffer from bleeding.

[williamwright]

I use a piece of aluminium sheet. It works very well.

Bill

[S Viemeister]

Slats from old venetian blinds work surprisingly well.

[alan_m]

Or learn how to cut in - perhaps with an angled brush.

[alan_m]

There some paint pads on a stick/handle advertised as being an easy way of cutting in. When you read the reviews from people that have used them you perhaps realise that the person demonstrating them have had lots of practice and perhps have used a new pad for every video clip.

[Andy Burns]

I had some paint edgers for shoving into the gap under skirting boards, effectively they were slightly more curvy slats, made out of a plastic that paint peeled off easily.

I lent them out several times, I suspect they never came back the last time.

[soup]

Aren't they called "a painters George". All the painters (pros) that I know just cut-in and roll.

You haven't lived till you've seen someone cut-in with a 4" brush

[williamwright]

I have Occasional Tremor so can't do anything freehand.

Bill

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

I've not heard of one either. What does it consist of? Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

That is interesting, my old grandpa had that slight tremor, ie his servo was hunting a bit, he used a heavier brush which seemed to control it. Brian

[RobH]

I have some of those which I bought donkeys years ago. they are made out of white, well cream now, curved plastic, and they do what I want when I do some painting.

[Chris Bacon]

Oh, I see. Yes, very nearly useless.

[Chris Bacon]

Mind you, some people, I'm told, use masking tape on windows! Dear God!

[Animal]

Having seen one house that had several bad runs down the windows, who can can blame them if they do.

[Chris Bacon]

Loads of people. Because it's a crap, time-consuming tchnique that tends not give a good edge, and any splashed or runs are very easily removed anyway.

[R D S]

Try one and let us know, the missus and myself did an almost equally shocking job of cutting ion when we decorated.

[alan_m]

It's easy to get dried paint off glass soon after painting. I can be harder to remove the hardened glue from the masking tpe if left on for too long :)

[billy bookcase]

I can remember seeing these everywhere at one time. Never something I ever bought myself though.

The above is the only information on Google. So whether they went out of business in the 1970's or just last year, dunno.

bb