Paint Tools & Supplies When Painting an Exterior Wall

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"Hi I'm Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I'm representing expertvillage.com. Okay now I like to talk a little bit about the tools we are going to need for these job. Now a professional painter or any painter most have some kind of scraping tool. I would recommend a putty knife or even better a 5 in 1 tool, also a rag it seems like little thing but this is how you clean up bits of paint and make your job look perfect. You are of course going to be doing some caulking today and when we are caulking we need a good caulking gun. There is alot of different kinds out here make sure you get one that has a good trigger on it and also it does help if you have a poker. If not you could always use a stick. You do need to drop off the area you are going to need a couple of drop clothes I use a runner and a big one that I fold up to catch the paint chips and also to protect the ground from any paints that falls. Now when we get into the painting we are going to be looking into pouring up into cut pots. Now I made this cut pot right here by cutting the rim out of a old one. These little ones are good to especially for the smaller stuff you would find these at the different home improvement centers. I'm doing about 3-4 set up today so I have several of them on the site. Now for brushes you would see 3 different kinds of brushes cause today I'm working in 3 different kinds of paint. Now the primer is the roughest paint and usually works on the roughest surfaces. Use your cheap brush don't use the good brushes on primer. Buy something cheap even a throw away brush like this one here. Now this here is the most expensive brush this is actually the best brush that I have even if it has a cheap wrapper, it should have a wrapper like this it is a older brush and it is my best edge. I use that for painting the eaves now the eaves need this type really good edge on with a sharp point on the end like that. That is what gives you that sharp line when you are cutting into things. You want to use your best brush on that because you are painting a smoother surface. Now when you get into rougher surface this brush you see it use to be good like this one but it has alot more work and this point is rounded a little bit on it. So I use this to cut into my walls because that still got a nice edge on it but it is not nice as the other one that I have for the eaves. We are going to do some rolling once we got it all cut in you are going to need to roll it and when you roll make sure you get yourself a good frame you could work with. I recommend a wooden handle something solid, jsut be sure it spins well and it doesn't stick on you. That is when you run into problems and it slides on you. There is a bunch of different ones out there buy yourself a good roller frame and you could use it over and over. Now for the cover the roller cover on a exterior wall you want at least a inch and quarter nap don't give 3/4 or a quarter that is more fo"