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Remove Fixtures and Prep Surfaces

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2 Day Home Repaint. Exterior Painting Fast.

What happens here

Remove any light fixtures, downspouts, or other attachments from the house exterior. This allows for thorough and consistent paint coverage behind these items, ensuring a professional finish. If smaller fixtures are present, mask them carefully if removal is not feasible. For house numbers, gently tap them off the wall using a hammer to avoid damage, then apply caulk to any existing nail holes before reinstalling them post-painting. Remember to clean the back of the house before painting.

Goal: Prepare the house exterior by removing or masking fixtures for a comprehensive paint job.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk Gun — Applying caulk
  • Caulk — Filling old nail holes from house numbers
  • Hammer — Gently removing house numbers

What they say

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show so this light actually does remove i thought it was sealed on here and i always like to you know remove the lights it's pretty rare that i don't remove them because you want to paint behind the lights just in case they change the lights and the escutcheon plate is smaller you want to you want to be painted behind there so you know some people some guys just mask them off you could say you don't want to mess with electrical wires because you're not electrician and i guess that could be you know a valid reason um but i always i always remove the lights most of the time and when you put them back on it's always good to test them whether they're functioning or not to see whether you got your wires hooked up correctly and and that they're working because it's nothing worse than having to drive 45 minutes across town to go put the white light back on wrong right because it was put on wrong so and that's happened so to me and my crew all right i've got this all ready to start spraying i'm going to get some cardboard shields back here we're gonna spray this we're gonna go out and get that front door ready

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