How to Paint Eves

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter. And today I represent expertvillage.com. Now we're going to paint the eaves on the house. Now, whenever you're painting the exterior eaves on your house, wait until you've got all the prep work done and be sure you dust every thing off. Now, if you run across something that built up, believe me, these spiders are going to make a new web. Even in a day's time, it will come back on you. So always keep a rag handy and a duster in case you come across something. Remember, paint the interior part first and then bring up the fascia. You can bring the fascia if you're really, really fast. But I wouldn't recommend it. Most of the time it's better to just go ahead and paint these interiors all the way down. Bring it all the way down and then bring up the fascia when you're done. Now, the first thing we want to do is we want to try and get this top part. So you want to cut that all the way around on the top first. Now, we want to get the seams. So you just want to work your paint that way. And, work with the grain of the wood back and forth, see. Just even that out and you're going to bring that on down like that and bring down these sides as well. You see, we've got some ants here. That's just part of it. You're going to find that there's all kinds of bugs that live in your house you're not aware of and you'll have to work around them. Now, you want to try and stop them as much as you can. But when you run across them, if you can't get around them, just paint them and move them out of your way. That's what you have to do. All right. Now we'll just bring it on down this way. So we're going to bring that on down and lap it on out. Now remember, when we're going on the wall, see it's making a mark and we're taking them out with the brush. That's how you lap, take out those, the seams and even it out. It probably won't cover in one, but we want to try the best we can to cover it in the first coat. Even if you know you're putting a second coat on, try and cover it with the first coat and it's going to make that second coat a lot better. Well, there's still a lot of work to do here, but these are a few tips to remember when you're painting the exterior eaves of your house."