4+ Interior Painting HACKS!

[Music] you've got a simple little hack for you volleyballs I'm in a tight little space right here and I can't wall them top the bottom so what I'm gonna actually do is I'm going to just fade it out right here in the middle what I don't want to do is come here and then just roll my wall and leave it like this and then come back and roll back up this will start to dry by the time I get to the bottom part so I wanted to do is just take it fade this out right here so it's gonna look like this I'm just gonna come up this is it come down and then I'm just going to pull my roller away from the wall just like that and it fades it out nicely and I got my finger on this side and I'll show you rolling the bottom portion and then fade that I can't use my my extension pole now so I'm going to roll the wall without the extension pole and I'm going to come up and then fade this in an upward direction fade it off just like that so there's no heavy build right there this is my first coat also these walls have to have more than one coat on them right here so that's why the cut ends aren't done yet this is simple hack bullied walls in tight spaces where you can troll wall from top to bottom so here's a simple hack for you I'm outside painting today and I'm brushing some door jambs right here and it's really hot outside and the air is really dry so my paint even though I'm not the Sun it's drying really fast and coagulating really quick adding a latex extender is going to slow down the dry time of the paint and it's actually help the paint level out and not show brushstrokes as much so I typically take on a day like this I'm gonna take a couple cat foals I've got maybe a quart of paint in here I'll just add in you know maybe one and a half capfuls I'm going to stir that in and this is gonna make the paint level out way better and it's gonna dry a lot slower not gonna coagulate on my brush or on cause brush strokes are quite late on the trim nearly as fast and some of it is just too limited just playing around how much you oughta put in there you know you don't want to thin out the paint too much and make it watery but I'm sorry enough this is really thick paint and that didn't do as much as I thought I'm going to add in one more cap full and this is another old-school trick some of the old-timers out there before latex extenders came out and were really popular I apparently dish soap works and does the same thing I've never tried it myself but hey if you don't have any latex extender and you got some Dawn dish soap laying around give it a try you may get a few bubbles you may have a bubble bath going on don't say I told you to do it but there are some old Kinder's out there God dude do it so video hack of the day slowing down the dry time of paint and helping it level out so I got a simple hack for you and that's keeping your gallon cans or five gallon buckets of paint from sliding around in the back of your truck I once had a disaster having a five gallon bucket of paint slide up hit my toolbox tip over and there's oil-based primer went everywhere what a mass if you've got these ease up walls or zip walls hanging around as a painter you could use these things just to set them inside the back your truck just like that and now my paints aren't gonna slide around this is a easy spring-loaded zip wall right here or we've got the ratchet type zip walls right here that we can use also just set this in the back of my truck now my paints are gonna slide around simple hack so you don't end up having a disaster in the back of your vehicle and make it a mess on the road so I got another little hack for you I'm done painting for the day and I'm just gonna take an empty out light bucket this is my cutting bucket I'm gonna pour it back in to my pin because I want to save my paint I don't want to waste any paint and then the other thing I'm gonna do is just scrape out my bucket there's still a lot of paint in here I'm gonna wipe this edge so make a big mess and I'm gonna scrape out the excess in here into my single put it right in there there's a lot of paint in there but the one thing I want to show you and this is the simple little hack I don't want to have to go clean out this bucket because then you know I could just you know use water that I don't need to use if wire's water is scarce where you're at you're in a drought and I don't have to make a big ole mess cleaning this bucket so I'm just gonna scrape all the excess paint out here carefully and there's just a little bit left inside the bucket now what I do is you can see there's a little bit of white paint left in the bucket I take what's left in there and I'm just gonna wipe this up the sides of my bucket so there's nothing down in the bottom so this will dry out and I won't have to wash it it's gonna leave like this thin film of paint inside here and it'll dry because this paint is an exterior to paint this bucket will literally dry in a few hours if I don't leave a whole lot left on the bottom I scrape all the stuff from the bottom scrape it up the sides and then I can use that bucket and typically what I do is I'll do that four to five times then I'll let this bucket set out in the Sun and the bucket will easily peel out it's a simple way cleaning your buckets but not using water and not creating a big mess so I got a simple little hack for you today and that's adding coloured line talk to your spackle so when you're done spackling and the spackle dries you know exactly where you spackle so you don't forget to sand it and prime it so all we do is just take a little bit of our spackle here I'm just gonna add a little bit to a piece of cardboard that I have right here the amount that I think I'll probably use and I just got some blue line chalk right here add a little blue line chalk to my spackle I'm just gonna mix that up and then you can just put as much as you want to give it as much color as you want and then when I spackle my wall it's just gonna have a little bit of blue colorant to it so I know exactly where I win I don't need too much just a little bit you can see now that's starting to have a nice tint of blue added to it now I'll do my spackling and it's gonna dry to a nice 10 to blue and I won't forget where to swear ice to sand and we're to prime which is a very important step in the process of fixing and spackling holes so there you have it five painting hacks hopefully you've enjoyed this video if you have if you want to see more painting hacks from paint like TV and the Idaho painter just leave it down in the comments section below that you want to see them and also give us a thumbs up hit the notification bell and that way you'll get notified next time I come out with another hack video if you want to see your hack on this video and get credit for it just leave it down below let us know what tip or trick that you got that is worthy to be on video and like we always say we'll see you on our next video ow [Music]