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3 Steps to PERFECT TRIM! Prepping to SPRAY

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What happens here

The video introduces the project, which is the second part of a multi-part series about painting a house. This segment specifically focuses on preparing the interior trim (baseboards and door jams) for painting. The host presents the key tools and materials required for this preparation phase: 9-inch masking paper, 1-inch blue FrogTape (highlighted as a 'contractor pack' and similar to green FrogTape, which swells to prevent paint bleed), a specialized hand masker tool, and duster brushes (old paint brushes are suitable for this purpose). The importance of dusting, masking, and caulking before applying paint is emphasized.

Goal: Understand the project scope and gather necessary tools and materials for trim preparation.

Tools and materials

  • 5-in-1 Tool — Trimming masking tape in corners and other tight spaces
  • Duster Brushes — Removing dust and debris from baseboards and floors
  • Electric Orbital Sander — Sanding rough surfaces on baseboards
  • FrogTape FrogTape — Creating sharp paint lines and preventing bleed on floors and walls
  • Hand Masker — Dispensing masking paper and tape simultaneously for efficient masking
  • Masking Paper — Protecting floors from paint overspray
  • Caulk Megallastic — Filling gaps and imperfections along trim

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miss Idaho Boehner this Christie Idaho pain are here on paint live TV we're back again this is a multi-part series teaching my beautiful daughter how to paint her very own house she's got her own home we apart one we actually talked about how to patch holes in a wall and now we're gonna be working on painting her trim in here she doesn't have a whole lot of trim there's just baseboards and a couple door jams but we're gonna paint that and we're gonna show you the prepping process so stay tuned for this video so today's video once again is brought to you by paint life gear are shirts hats and all kinds of tools and accessories are found on our paint line store at the Idaho painter calm you got to go check it out after this video but today's video this is part two of our multi-part series and today we're going to be talking about painting the trim we have baseboards in here and we don't have any window trim we got a couple doors that have door jambs so it's gonna be very simple but I'm gonna walk Mikaela through the process of painting our own trim and we're gonna be spraying it so we got to start off by masking we're gonna use in some tools we've got 9 inch paper we've got 1 inch tape but we don't want any paint to bleed onto her nice hardwood floors so we're gonna be using some blue frog tape this is frog tape right here frog tape blue and it's the same is the green frog tape it swells on the edges and doesn't allow any paint to bleed underneath of it this is the blue form so this is the contractor pack it comes in a 4 pack we got the 1 inch tape and I'm gonna be showing her how to mass down here on the floors we'll be putting our inch and half tape down and that are putting our paper on top of that so we be using a hand master and then we're gonna be using dust or brushes we have some old brushes here because we don't want our floors to be dusty cuz the tape won't stick so we're gonna sweep the floors with our duster brushes along the edges of the baseboards run our tape then run our tape and paper and then prep the top of it by caulking anything that needs to be prepped or sanded caulking the tops of the baseboards or spackling anything so let's get moving on to the project

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