Repairing a Surface Before Painting

Video Transcript

"Ok, so our next step for painting this kitchen is to repair and prepare the surfaces that are going to be painted. So, we want to take a look, and what we see is, we see a little bit of cracking and peeling with the trim, around the perimeter and quite a bit on the woodwork. So I'm going to get right to that. First thing we want to do, is we want to start scraping and removing all of the peeling surfaces. I'm going to take my Universal tool, I'm going to use it as a scraper. I'll get up here and start from the top down and I'm just going to go around and just kind of remove some of the really loose stuff. Stuff that really wants to come off, I'm not going to over-scrape it because we don't want to make more work for ourselves than we have to. Quite a bit over here, just going to take away the, the really cracking stuff here. Loose material. That's all the scraping. And so now to begin our sanding, I'm going to grab a piece of sandpaper and I'm going to fold it in half because we're going to be sanding the walls as well as the trim. So, I'll show you how to set up our Pole Sander. We'll fold sandpaper in half, ok.? So half of this we're going to use for the pole sander and the other half we're going to use to hand sand. So we'll fold it into thirds, so it won't slip around on you. Grab the ladder, start from the top down, as always. Now, sanding is a good idea for any surface, even if it's not in tough shape because slick surfaces really don't hold the paint as well. So you want to give it a light sand, so that everything will have something to stick to. This, like I said, deglosses the glossy surfaces, and the paint sticks better, gives your paint something to grip onto. You want to hit everything, go over all of our surfaces here. You want to keep refreshing the paper, use some of the fresh parts, because it gets dulled down pretty quick as you're using it. So let me show you how to use this Pole Sander. This is going to help us to sand flat areas very fast. You just want to basically catch the paper on both ends, make sure that it's tight. Here we go. Grab my extension pole, screw it right on there. Alright, ready to begin and the pole will basically do most of the work for you. Makes your job very easy. You just basically want to go over everything. Like the tempo. This will take down all of the bumps and little imperfections that we want to sand down. As well as give the paint something to adhere to, like I said before. This will dull the glossy surface just enough that the paint will perform really well. Last a long time. Let's hit this ninety too, while we're at it. Let's give everything a quick brush down, get as much as you can with the brush. A little vacuum, Ok, so now we've got everything sanded down and cleaned up, and looking good. So, it's prime time."