Tools For Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Grady Johnson and I am a professional painter and today I represent expertvillage.com. Now I am going to talk a little bit about the tools that we need for painting. Now painting tools are pretty universal. You can use them interior, exterior. There are a few variations. There are a few things that you can use that you probably won't see here today because just don't use them. Now of course whenever you are painting, you do need to cover the area whether it is inside or outside so I recommend you have a bunch of drop cloths. As you can see here I have a variety sizes to work with. Also, we are also going to be doing some prep work. Whenever you are prepping, you are going to need to do a little bit of scraping. Always a painter needs to keep his 5-in-one-tool or putty knife available for scraping and opening up paint cans. Always keep a rag on hand that's for dusting. We have dusters as well in a couple of different sizes. We dust off the area and then we wipe it down with our rag and it gets that extra stuff off. We use that in prep work and then we kind of dust that off on our leg and we use it when we are painting too to make sure that our work looks good. When doing this prep work, you want to put on a little spackling so you want a flex blade and as you can see it is a different kind of blade, just not as stiff and it gives a little bit. Now we are going to do some caulking so you want a good caulking gun as well. Now these caulking guns, just vbe sure the action works well on it and you want to have some kind of a poker 6to be able to poke the end of the caulking. If for some reason it is locking up on you for some reason, just take it back. They will replace it. Once you have your prep work done, you are going to want to start cutting everything in and priming it and you are going to need some brushes for that. Now when you are doing a lot of different kinds of things, you are doing priming, you are doing ceilings, you are doing walls, interior and some exterior work, you want a lot of different setups so keep 3 or 4 cut pots around so that you can get into different paints without having to clean up in between. Try to use a dry brush whenever you get into a new paint so try and keep a brush for every paint setup you are going to get into and that's brushing. Another tip is try and use your really good brush, is the super sharp ones on the inside the rougher brushes on the outside just because they get more wear on the exterior surfaces. Now let's talk about rolling. Now rolling of course, you have to have a 5 gallon bucket to pour your paint up in and do your boxing. I keep a couple of these around. You see I am sitting on one now and also I keep a little water on hand and even if I am way on the other side away from the spicket, I keep a little water in a 5 gallon bucket so that I can wash my hands periodically. It gets the caulking off and a little paint that accumulates as well. You want to have a 5 gallon bucket. Don't use those little rolling pins. They are a mess and don't handle the job as well. Exterior, a 5 gallon bucket and a roller is all you are going to need but interior you are going to need some kind of a roller screen. On the inside, always use the roller screen because they control the paint. Roll down on this is going to push that paint into the roller net and it is not going to fly all over the place. You see I've got a couple of them here because I am doing ceilings and walls on the interior today. You want to keep a couple of roller frames on hand as well. With roller frames you don't need as many of them as you do with the brushes. But it is a good idea to have a different roller frame for each setup as well. That way you don't have to worry about getting the wrong paint on the wrong thing and you don't have anything wet and runny on you. Now these are all the basic items that you are going to need here and also you are going to need to have good roller mats. I use the inch and quarter because they work outside and they work inside. If you are going to do a real meticulous inside work and you don't want a lot of paint flying around, just use the 3/4 inch mat on this latex paint and you should be fine and these are the tools that are required for interior and exterior paint. "