Materials for Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Grady Johnson. I'm a professional painter and today I represent Expert Village.com Now I'm going to talk a little bit about the materials we need for interior and exterior painting. Now whenever we're painting we know the first thing we're going to have to do is prep work. So whenever you're prepping you going to need some caulking and some spackling and a good primer. That's what you're going to see here. Now first of all lets talk about the caulking. Be sure you always get a good acrylic latex caulk. Now the new acrylic latexes have just a little touch of silicon in it but don't mistake that for silicon caulk. Silicon caulk is not paintable. There are some variations to that, I know they are coming up with new things all the time. But for a good rule of thumb always use the acrylic latex caulk, don't use the pure silicon because its just not going to paint it. And use the brilliant white that way you see where you're work is going. There are some clear ones out there, but thats only if you don't plan to paint the beam, if you're planning on painting, which you probably will be because this is a painting idea, then you are going to want to use the brilliant white acrylic latex caulking and if it has a touch of silicon, that's ok, but don't get the pure silicon. Now we're going to be patching a few holes here on our walls and our exterior eves as well so were going to need some lightweight spackling. This lightweight spackling is perfect for holes that are under a half inch, usually around a quarter inch hole and most of the times its just a little nail hole you have to patch up. These work very very well with the lightweight spackling. You can use this interior and exterior. It dries very very quickly and its easy to sand. Primers. Now primers are very important and the thing to remember with primers is there are oil based primers and there are latex based primers. The key is you want something that kills stains and mildew. But just remember there are good latex based primers out there just be sure that its a good stain killer and that it does protect against mildew. Now once you have your prep work done, it's going to be time for painting and when you're painting you want to have a good interior latex paint. Now this is ceiling paint, our ceilings are going to be bright white, these really make your ceilings look brand new. Whether it's an acoustic ceiling, which means it has the little bumps on it or its a good smooth ceiling this ceiling white will distinctify your ceiling. It's going to raise it up a little bit because its a bright white and it gives more depth and more height to your ceiling. Now on the wall paints use a good simple base just pick out the best paint you can for interior latex paint and then add whatever color you wish to it, they'll mix it for you there at the paint store. Also, the home improvement centers have it down to a computerized science, they'll put a number on the top. Keep track of that, because if you have to match that paint go back to the same place and you can come back up with the same color. That is designed to make sure you don't make a mistake. It's important that you go back to the same paint store. Remember different paint store have different formulas. Finally we're on our exterior. Now when you're doing your exterior walls you'll find probably some paint left over from where you painted before unless you're changing the color of your exterior wall. So for today's purposes I'm using some paint that we already used on another wall on the house and I still have plenty of it left. That'll probably do the job, however if I was going to run out of that and I had to match it I still have these numbers on the top and I take it to the paint store where I bought it to be sure they can match it properly. Finally we're going to be working on our eves. Now when we work with eves we use a semi gloss enamel on the eves. You can see here that this is a good latex acrylic semi gloss enamel. Here's where I'm going to cheat a little bit, there are interior acrylic latexes for painting door jams and doors as well and generally thats what I would recommend for doing your interior wood but you can also use your exterior acrylic latexes on these as well as I'm going to do today. It saves you a little bit of money, and quite frankly an exterior acrylic latex semi gloss and an interior acrylic latex semi gloss are not that different and they will work fine. It's always a good idea to put interior where it belongs and exterior where it belongs, but in this particular case you can kind of change the rules a little bit and stretch your paint some. So these are all of the materials that you are going to need for your exterior and interior painting."