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Over 30 years ago, when I was just about Jordan's age, I was newly married. A good buddy of mine, Kevin, was a professional house painter. He was behind on his work. He called me on the landline, said, "Hey, can you help me out this weekend so I get caught up?" I said, "Sure thing, dude. I'll be there. You tell me when, you tell me where."
So I show up with my tools the next morning. I got my little roller pan, got my little roller, a little brush, and a little painting shield to cut in. I'll never forget, Kevin took one look at all that stuff, said, "Dude, throw all that in the trash. I'm gonna get you set up with what you need to paint."
Here's what he did. Number one, a metal cut-in bucket. And that's the one I use. They make plastic ones, but I like this one. I can hook my thumb on the bail, support the weight of the paint with my whole hand, and when I set it down, it won't knock over. A good brush. He was a purdy boy, P-U-R-D-Y. This is a Wooster. Put a nail in the ferrule, bend it over, hook it on the side of the can. You get good enough so you don't even need to look at it anymore. Just like that, it becomes happy. Throw away the paint pan. Get yourself a grid. From now on, Paul, you're going to be working out of a five-gallon bucket and a grid. You get yourself a good roller and a three-quarter inch lambswool roller. I don't even know if they make those anymore, but that's all I used for years and years.
Now, sure, with technology, we've upgraded. We have an airless sprayer now, and you can't get a finish like this with a brush. I still love the way a brushed finish looks on trim, right, Jordan? In fact, in the two bathrooms on this house, we used a brush to paint all the trim, and it came out fantastic. Now, there is something to be said about using basic tools to get a quality finish, and it makes you appreciate them even more when you upgrade your arsenal, just like we did when we got the airless sprayer. But Jordan and I are going to go old school today on our ceiling. I'm gonna cut in with a brush. I'm pretty fast, and he's gonna use the 18-inch roller behind me. But it's kind of dark in this house. We don't have our beautiful halo lighting in here yet. So, what do you say we pull some of this plastic down, get some natural sunlight in here, and we can start painting? That looks awesome right there. And you see what we did with the old burglar alarm wire? Usually, you got to paint over them, but they were siliconed over here. We pulled them off, and I'll reattach them with some hot glue, and that looks great. Let's pull off the seal piece. Nice. And with that natural light, you can really see this finish. It is absolutely smooth. Jordan gives me a hard time because I go around the house doing this. It just feels so nice when you rub your hand over there, and all your hard work and those three days of prep pays off.
On our ceilings, we're using Behr paint, the interior ceiling flat. We actually use this already on the project on the bathroom ceilings. But it does need a quick stir. Oh, but it does need a quick stir. So let's stick it in. So let's give it a mix.
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All right, gang. We're going to strain our paint. I've got a five-gallon strainer on a five-gallon bucket that's clean. And this paint is pretty thin, so it should go right through there. And that's always a danger, but it's okay. Now, I'm straining this paint because I've already opened this paint when we did the bathrooms, and there might be something in here. You get all this dried paint on the side of the bucket, it could end up in your paint. On a brand new bucket of paint, I'm not going to strain it because there shouldn't be anything in there from the factory. A lot of guys strain it anyway. It's probably good practice. Now we've got all our paint strained. These big buckets for the 18-inch rollers, you can get these bags. These things are awesome. It makes cleanup a lot easier. And at the end of the day, if you're not done painting, you can store the paint right in there by tying this up like a loaf of bread. Let's put this in here. Push the air out. All right, you ready, bud? Pour most of it in here, and I'm going to pour about an inch in my cut-in bucket. You don't want to put more than an inch because of this. When I'm cutting in, remember I said earlier, I don't even have to look at the bucket. I just dip. It's going to hit the bottom, and that's the perfect amount of paint. Tap, tap, and I'm ready to go. No wiping on the edges because it's going to get all over the ferrule right here, and then I just hook it on there. And again, I can do that without looking. Are you ready, bud? Let's do it.
All right, once you finish that patch in the foyer, we had to take that light down that I didn't know about. So there's a patch there. You gotta wet sand it and texture it, and then we'll prime it. But I'll start cutting it in the bedrooms, and you can follow in behind me in a few minutes, and I'll be ahead of you. All right. All right.
So while Dad is in the back of the house cutting in ahead of me so I can get behind him with a roller, I'm going to get up here at this patch. You can see we've got this patch. Oh, we need to take care of that before we paint the ceilings, which is what we're doing today. So I've got a sponge here. We're going to do something that we call blending, which is when you have a drywall patch and you want to blend the new mud into the old texture. Then we're going to put some spray texture on there. It's going to be great. And since this is dry walnut, it's just going to break down easily with water. Ah, there we go. You see that? Can you see the difference how that looks blended? It's like broken up instead of like a super hard line right there. That's really what we're after. It doesn't take much, even though this drywall mud has been here for so long. And then we're going to get our spray texture. We're just using a whole Max wall texture. We're just going to hop up here and do our best, I guess. I don't want to shoot it towards the crown. I think this stuff has a pretty good reach. I think I can just stand on the ground. I'm liking that. I'm gonna leave it. Let it dry. The master will have a final say when it gets to this part of the house. Don't leave your wall texture lids on the ground, okay? How's it coming in here? Almost done, man. Hey, you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. It didn't take long. One day you'll be as fast as me on the cut, man. How'd the uh ceiling come out in the foyer? Great. No hiccups at all. You got it textured. One day you'll be like me. Nice. Touched. All right, one more in here. It's all yours. I'm ready.
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Look at this guy right here. Big old cobweb. I never saw it till he spray painted all right. And clean that for me, bud.
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Look how nice. Good coverage. At first, I was going like this, not really working because the paint is weighing the roller down, right? So I'm pulling up, and then that works a lot better. So watch this. Yep. I'm good. And we're not going all the way in. And these are staying clean. So the paint's not running off, right? Right. I'm not dipping that stuff all the way under. Yeah. And that's it. You do a good job. That's you. That's not the roller. See, I think I got like a little, little ridge right here, actually. So you can hit it. That's it. So you cut in for like 45 minutes, and I roll for four minutes, and I think we got a pretty good thing set up. I think you got the better end of the deal.
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All right, man. We are officially out of light, which means it's time to go home. My neck hurts. Yeah, I'll give you a massage. I got. Oh, thanks. And I just found out I gotta drive to New Orleans. So we're out. All right. Well, I'll go edit this, and we'll be back here what? Tomorrow? Yep. We'll knock out that ceiling, start on walls. What's up, dude? Ten gallons of paint for the walls, Behr Marquee. So the cover's in one coat. Give it a try. We're going to give it a try. All right. And I got some lunch. Cool, man. Well, I just, I just hit the, the whole kitchen while you were gone. Cool. Yeah, you want to come check it out? Absolutely. We'll do a little farmer's walk. Yeah, I was about to say, yeah. You got some paint on your face there, bud. Here we go. Easy peasy, man. Wow. Oh, I can tell, man. That looks awesome. Nice. How much paint we have left? You know, we have a pretty good amount. Just enough for that last bedroom. Exactly. Yep. Coverage on this was great too, right? Yeah. Shout out to Behr. Big shout out to Behr. One coat coverage. And of course, we're covered in white. But we had all kind of stuff going on up there. Patches, the trim color, primer, the ceilings are all done, and they look phenomenal. Now, in our previous video, you saw Jordan and I breathe new life into this old back door, but we really won't get the full effect on how great it looks until we take all these pieces of paper and tape off. So I say we start right here with the middle one and let's check this thing out and see how great it's going to look. All right, that looks great. Now, since we put tape on there and paper, we know that any paint that's on the glass was there from the previous painter, right? So our last step is going to get a razor blade scraper and clean both sides of the glass. Take off these old labels and look brand new.
Now it's time to put some color on the wall. But before we can do that, we gotta clean our roller setup from the ceiling paint. First thing we're going to do, we're going to scrape all the excess paint off of the roller with this notched radius cut out on this painter's tool. It removes a lot of the paint and makes cleaning the roller with the hose much easier. Turn a little bit, take another pass.
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Now we're going to put our ceiling white paint back in the bucket. I've got it all cleaned. I don't want any dry paint on the edges. It's going to end up in the paint later. We're going to remove our bag. There we go. That stayed pretty clean. Let's cut the end. I didn't cut all the way through because I don't want that piece of plastic in my paint. Now we can just squeeze all this out and save almost all the paint with no waste, and my hands stay pretty clean. There we go. Look at that. Nice. All right, let's go outside with the hose and clean that roller.
All right, here we are outside. And all I do to clean this is I squirt the roller, and centrifugal force keeps it clean. I just use the tip that comes with the airless sprayer and get a pretty heavy stream. Use a nozzle if you don't have one of these. First thing I'm going to do, as best I can, like this. And we get a lot of comments about paint and the grass. I don't know why the grass here grows so fast. Now, the next time this is cut, you won't even tell we were here, right, Jordan? Right. You got to remember, grass doesn't grow like this everywhere. Yeah, in some places they paint their grass. That's right, because it doesn't grow. It takes a little bit of time to get this clean, but, you know, it's kind of therapeutic, right? After you do all that hard work painting, just go clean your roller, take a break, and relax, man. I keep my rollers for a long time, but the only times they end up in the trash are when Mom uses them and then they don't get cleaned, and I got to throw them away. It makes me mad. Take it off of here. Start using some typical force.
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There we go. Ready for wall paint now. They make all kind of attachments. You can put your roller on and spin it. I just use the handle. Why have one more piece of equipment, right? And that works great. All right, bud. Ready for wall color? Let's do it.
All right. All right. We are ready to put up some wall color, and we are back here in the master. What we call the blue room, because we figure if that Behr paint says 100% coverage with one coat, we're going to test it out on here because the rest of the house is much lighter. And as you can see, we've already started putting it on the walls, cutting in. That's what we call it. And we got a pretty good feeling about it. It is covering fantastic. Now, a lot of people get intimidated when they start cutting in, right? This is cutting in when you're putting that paint against the base. Now, you can roll your walls, but just like you can make a mistake when you're using a pencil, you just flip it over and you use the eraser, right? Well, we have a paint eraser for you. Come down here and check it out. Let me grab my paint. Same setup I used before. Nice metal bucket. I got the weight of the can supported by my hand, and it won't fall over because I got it hooked with my left thumb. Maybe that's why my left thumb is trash right now, bud. Yeah, it's like, sometimes it hurts a lot. Miles of doing this. And again, I got about an inch of paint in there, so I can dip till it hits bottom, and that's all the paint I need. Tap, tap, and I'm ready to go. It won't drip off. And as you can see, I got the nail right there. So the way I do it, I put some paint on the wall first. It acts like power steering for my paintbrush. It's going to glide easier. I got too much on there. Oh, sorry, bud. I'm going to just get down here. I'm going to cut it. I'm too worried about getting on the baseboard because that's where that paint eraser trick comes in.
Now, what's a paint eraser? We've got a nice rag, nothing too fuzzy, probably some t-shirt material, and a putty knife. This is damp and clean water, just like when we're tiling, when we're drywalling, when we're painting, always a bucket of clean water with you to clean up. We're going to put the rag over the paintbrush like that. We're going to make a pass. Look at that. Beautiful. Got a little bit right here. Wipe it off. Let's show you that one more time, but a little closer. But that's what a lot of baseboard in America looks like, right? But with a simple putty knife and a rag, and check it out, you get a perfect line. Boom. Done. One pass. Now, a couple of keys for this to work: you have to caulk. It's got to be a nice square corner, and your paint on your base has to be absolutely dry. Sweet. We'll do that all the way around the room. Well, you don't have to, because, yeah, I'll cut in. You've got experience. Yeah.
Now let's talk about this paintbrush. Which edge do you use? Right to use this edge or this one? I use them both, but actually, when I'm cutting in, I use this one. Once you grab your ladder, bud, and let's show them what I do up at the crown. Now, let's talk about the paintbrush. I use an angled brush to cut in, and most people would probably think you use this side where you have the tip where it's longer right here as your edge to cut in. I actually use the other one, the shorter one. I'm going to show you why. I'm cutting in this way. I have very little paint right here. I'm going to, the paint's going to run dry. I won't be able to go too far before there's no more paint. But if I go this way, I got all kind of paint over there. Let's make a pass going this way with this end, and we'll back up. We'll make another pass going this way, and you're going to see the difference. A little too much paint. All right, now that I put some paint on the wall about half an inch down from my crown, I'm going to go back working right to left, and I'm going to get those bristles right up there where I want them, and I have complete control over the brush. See, I basically just have three fingers on it, four fingers on it, and I can flex the brush and put those bristles exactly where I want. He ran out of paint at the end. Pick up a little more, and I'm done. Pretty good edge right there. Now let's back up, buddy, and we'll do this section with the long point with that tip, and you'll see how I'm going to run out of paint. So this is how I think most people are going to cut in, and this is what's going to happen to you. You're going to start over here where it's wet, where you left off, and you start working over here to your right. I can already tell I'm running out of paint. It's not covering as great. Okay, I'm out. See, I'm out of paint, but check out the other end. I got enough paint on the other end to finish this. So when you're painting overhead, what's happening is capillary action is drawing the paint up the bristles against gravity to the end of the brush. That's how it works. So we're going to use capillary action to our advantage and use this side of the brush and get some cool cutting lines. So if you're using this side of the brush, why don't you try it with the other side and see what works better for you? But I would say an angled brush is much better for cutting in because this little tip right here does a great job for getting in all those corners.
All right, let's pour some paint in here. We're going to pour it from the bucket with the lid on. Now, what's going to happen if I pour it like this? Glug, glug, glug, glug, right? It's going to get all over the can. Let's flip it around this way. See what happens. Look at that. No glugging. It's able to pull air. How much you want? That's good. That's good. Yeah, ease off. All right, not too bad, but you see how well that works? And it's a great trick when you're pouring like paint thinner or a solvent out of a can. Put it at the top so it can draw air. It won't glug. Glugging is bad. Pattern or coverage? Yeah. Yeah. And I can see. Oh, I totally. I'm like, I'm like totally painting the windowsill.
All right, gang. This room is done and looks fantastic. And we only ran into one little problem on these two walls when Jordan was rolling. We had a little bit of spatter on top of the baseboard. It came up pretty easy with that rag and the putty knife trick we showed you, but it was kind of a pain. So instead, on these two walls behind you, we put down a piece of blue tape. Took me about 60 seconds, and a lot of you in the comments have mentioned that you should go ahead and do that anyway when you're painting, right, Jordan? Yeah. And check this out. Not only does it help keep the baseboard clean from spatters, it made my cutting job a lot easier. Look at that. We're going to pull it off while the paint is still wet. All right, the ceiling looks great. All the trim looks great, and the walls look great. And Jordan even went ahead and painted over the outlets, so now we don't have to buy new ones and install them. That's always a pain. These look as good as new. All right, this room looks fantastic. Now, remember, Jordan and I don't get paid to paint. We're general contractors. We are not painters, but we enjoy painting and we enjoy painting our own work so that it looks nice. And you'd be surprised at what a lot of people settle for when it comes to painting. If you don't believe me, follow me to my house, and we're going to show you what drives me crazy every day and what we try to avoid.
Here we are in the foyer at my house. Come on down here and check it out. We got a nice, pretty tall base, but look, there is paint all over the top of it, on the front. And I don't even know what that is. Come over here. It's the same thing. Let's go up the stairs right here. The skirt board, all over the top of that. I'm going to run up there, Jordan. Now, I just noticed this. The back of this spindle, it's got the wall paint all over it. And check out the baseboard on this landing. Look over here. There's drips all over it. This was never caught. And I don't know if it's showing up on the camera, but this paint does not even match the wall paint. One more thing I want to show you by the front door. You're going to love this. I guess the bottom of the front door was rotten, so they cut it off and they patched it with some 2x4. See that? And the paint doesn't even match. Got shoe laying flat. We got everything here, but this is just making me mad. Let's go back to the other project where everything's beautiful.
We're back at the job site. It is Thursday morning, and we have one goal today, and it's not to paint on Friday. We got the whole gang here today. Yesterday, Jordan and I did one bedroom just to get our system down. Now that we know what we've got to do, we're going to paint the whole rest of the house. Let's rock and roll.
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All right, gang. Our goal today was to not paint on Friday, and we did it. We got the whole house painted. And right over here in the corner, you see a little bit of everything. Our nice ceiling white, our trim Swiss coffee, and our wall color, and it looks great. A few little spots we're gonna have to touch up tomorrow, but I'll get in here early. But, uh, you got that thing tomorrow, right? You got to sign something or what's going on? We can't talk about that just yet. All right, what do you want to tell them? I think two weeks. Two weeks. All right, big news in two weeks. But for right now, why don't we show them some before and afters? Let's do it.
All right, while that's rolling, you could get this huge spot that you missed right here. I always miss one spot, and there it is.
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Man, is that the last section? This is it, man. Whole house. And what day? And it's not even dark yet. It's not dark. And we also started late. Yep. We did. Awesome. Yeah, I can cut in pretty fast, and you're faster than me with that thing. I think so. Yeah. After, uh, when you do a whole house, when you're rolling like this, you want to start in a spot that you don't care about. Then, once you get that system, like all the little nuances, because there are definitely a lot of nuances, how to hold this, how to angle it, how to get your paint, how to roll it, how to not get drips, how to knock it, build up on your corners. And once you get the control and the nuances, it's, it's pretty easy. And I think a lot of people would be surprised how good it would actually look. And also, this 18-inch roller is an absolute beast. And just like that, done. Nice. Now, you've painted a bunch with a nine-inch roller, so. Oh, yeah. Besides from the fact that that's twice as fast, is it? Is it easier? It's a lot easier. We've touched on this in the past, but this roller right here is obviously supported from both sides. So a nine-inch roller, um, I think that if we were doing a nine-inch roller, like, um, maybe somebody who's DIYing it, they would want to go to the store, get a nine-inch roller. Not only would we not be out of the hallway, but since it's on a giant spring and it's not supportive on both ends, a lot of the times you're fighting that paint build-up on each seam, and that can honestly, like, ruin your paint job, I think. Yep. And, uh, tell them how we store that thing at night. Well, we can show them because we're. Why would you show them right now? All right, yeah, I was gonna clean it, but if I don't have to clean it, that's okay with me. So if you know you're gonna be painting for two or three days, just cover this with some plastic. I just took some of the plastic film that we used to cover the walls and stuff. Put a strip about a foot wide. I'm just gonna spiral wound it, right? Won't even get any paint on my hands, and we'll take this end off. Careful. All right, boom. Put that back there. There we go. Stick that in the fridge. It won't dry out, and it's ready to go tomorrow.
All right, guys. The inside walls all done, and it looks fantastic. Yeah, a little bit of up, but that's okay. And this Behr Marquee paint right here, fantastic job. When I bought it, it said one coat hide guaranteed, and it made a believer out of me. $240 for five gallons, $500 for the whole house, but it was only one coat. Like I said, typically I'm a two-coat guy, but this paint is unbelievable, and it covered great on the blue and the yellow and the white everywhere. So one coat. That like button and smash it for me. And Jordan, we really appreciate that. Ask a question, drop a comment, please subscribe, and we will see you on our next video.
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