How to Clean Up After Painting a Bathroom in Oil based Paints

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"Hello, my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter. And today I represent ExpertVillage.com. Now we're going to go ahead and clean out this brush. Now I've already cleaned up my roller, all I needed to do was just kind of hit that with the water, and then rinse that on out. Knock off anything that's hardened up and then get it out of your way. Roller naps I really don't recycle those. They're not worth it and they're hard to clean up. So I usually, especially when I'm using oil, I'll just pitch that. But my brushes are a different story. I will redo those, and the first thing we need to do is get all the water soluble paint out of this, out of this particular brush. OK, once you got the main bulk, you want to just work it out a little. With your brush. This oil base water soluble it's a little gummy alright. So you probably won't get all of it out of your bucket. Do the best you can with it, then move on. Now you see right along here this line, that's the paint we want to get out of it, you can see the paint just running down the stock. So we want to take our wire brush and knock that out. So just lay it up on here and wire that on out. And work that on out. Now this is what really gets the paint out. At the same time you're straightening out those bristles. Get those edges too. And then straighten it on out. Alright, now you want to go ahead and get some more water in there. Now what we want to do is we want to pull that water back down over the stock. So you see here, it's pulling that paint on out of there. So that's what we're doing. Pulling that on down. OK, now a lot of gum is built up on this brush so we are going to have to hit it with the mineral spirits. So I'm going to grab a little bit of this mineral spirits. Now, I've grabbed another bucket for the mineral spirits. I don't want to use the same cup pot I've been working with. It's a little bit gummy and I'd rather get a dry one to work with. I'm going to pour just a little bit of mineral spirits in the bottom of the bucket. Just a little bit because all I want to do is take that, take that gum out of my brush. It's not about cleaning it up, with mineral spirits it's about getting that gum out. Now we're going to pull that spirits down over it because the stuff has gotten down into the stock. Pretty dirty color coming out of there. So you're going to pour that into your, your dirty spirits bucket. You want to get all that spirits out of your brush. Nice sharp brush again. It's getting ready to paint. Shake that out. Kick it out on your toe. Shake that right out of the stock. Give it one last come out with the brush. Work this off your brush as you go. And that's going to even all the bristles out for you. OK, back in the shuck and ready for the next job. Well, these are just a few of the tips to keep in mind when you're cleaning up your nylon brushes after using the oil based water soluble paints. "