All About Covering the Bathroom for Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter. And today I represent expertVillage.com. Now I'd like to talk a little bit about dropping off the area to get ready to paint with oil paint. Now the first thing you need to do is clear all the clutter, knick knacks, every little item that normally hangs out in the bathroom needs to be taken out of there. Hopefully you've already kind of run a mop over the floor a little bit and let that all dried up real good before you start. What you're doing is you're getting all the counters and surfaces ready to be covered and then we want to cover everything that a drop can possibly fall on. Now whenever you're painting with oil paint, you want to use something thick like cardboard or a thick drop cloth. If your drops aren't too thick, double them up. I'm going to show you how to do that real quickly. And then also you want to use some thick cloths. The reason we're doing that is in the bathroom you're going to find like shower heads and globes that are hanging up here and we're going to want to cover those with something like rags. If it's a thin rag you want to double that up and if it's a thick rag then you should be good. Now remember with cardboard if a drop hits it it's going to sit on there, alright, and it's not going to soak through. So it is really really good, it's not going to go through and get underneath the surface but you've got to be careful to wipe that down a little bit especially if it's a real thick drop like you'll find with oil. Now with material it will soak through a little bit so you always want to double that up. You don't want just one thickness on it especially if it's going to get big drops on it. So when we cover our area on the floor here we want to go ahead and grab one of these big drops here. This one here is actually a runner. But we're going to fold that widthwise because we're going to get double action out of it. Remember it's not a lot of area to cover and I have a lot of different kinds of drops. So when you go with these, never use it with just one thickness. Fold it in half like this and get it folded up for you and go ahead and throw that out on the floor. I'm going to move some of this stuff out of my way. So I'm going to throw that out and leave a little of that out in front of me. Now I'm just going to square up the bottom. And it looks like it didn't cover all the way up to the cabinet, but I'm going to have some cardboard come over that where I can put another drop next to it; whatever I need to do to make it reach. Now for my counters I'm going to go ahead and get some of these larger pieces of cardboard and I can just slide this right up on the counters. But if you use the cardboard, the pieces of cloth and the drop cloths, you're going to have everything you need to cover the area properly. And these are the things you need to remember when you're dropping off a robe to get ready for painting in an oil base paint."