5 INCREDIBLE HACKS Every Painter Should Use!

okay the first hack today is going to be on painting cabinets i get a lot of questions about masking cabinets and how we go about masking cabinets and especially the face frames and it's kind of very simple but if you just watch the video the background you'll see some some tips and tricks on it some hacks what i do is just applying tape to the back of the face frames and then it's just going to be taking and tacking some plastic over the top of that and that way it keeps paint out of the inside of the box we're typically never painting the inside of the boxes because they're melamine and they don't accept paint they'll never wear up to the wear and tear so we always mask the face frames and we do spray our face frames so just check out right here some of these really cool tips and tricks while i'm masking and you'll get some ideas how i go about doing it and it's very fast simple and easy to do and then some people will be asking well why not just brush and roll them we can mask a lot faster than we could actually just brushing and rolling them so we'll mask them spray them because we're also spraying the doors inside inside of a spray booth inside the kitchen so check it out and just watch and stay tuned for these really cool tips and tricks so got a really cool hack for you and if you've got a squeaky door you've got one right here i'm gonna even show you it squeaks and it's really annoying this handy little tool the spring tool will make removing hinge pins fast and easy so you can get rid of the squeaks and once it starts squeaking what starts happening is you start getting this black dust all around your trim which is a nasty little graphite dust caused by the hinge not being lubricated in two metals working on each other and rubbing against each other i use just typically a bearing grease right here that i lubricate my hinge pins with but all you got to do is strike your hinge pin with your hinge pin remover and it will remove it just like that now i can lubricate my hinge pin you can see how it like popped out a little bit it might sometimes you know be good for you to wear safety glasses when you do it if you're concerned about the thing popping up and hitting you in the eye got enough experience doing it that typically don't do it now i'm going to take my hammer it'll slide in there it's got to go just a little bit farther i'll tap it in with a hammer and now i've got a lubricated hinge pin next one i'm going to just pop it out i'm going to lubricate it once again i just use a bearing grease you can use any type of your lubricant to keep them from being metal metal rubbing and keep them from leaving that graphite just got one down on the bottom that's still squeaking a little bit i'm gonna do that one very simple and easy to do it's the hinge pin remover from spring tools all right just got the third one done no more squeak in three minutes okay i got a quick and simple hack for you today i've got to a window right here scenario i want to get a really perfectly straight line you can just hand cut it in but it might go up too high or might go down too low and not just be perfectly straight across i just use a simple framer square typically carry it around with me me when i'm doing trim i'm gonna put it on my corner line it up with the window i'm gonna take my five in one tool right here i just use a two-edged knife and then i'm gonna score that right there and then that leaves a nice little line that's perfectly straight right across that it's going to look awesome now you can take and hand cut it in right there because it leaves a little ridge and your brush can follow that ridge but what i actually like to do to even make it more perfect i'm going to take some frog tape got some frog tape right here i'm going to use clear caulking also i'm going to take frog tape and i have that scored line so i put my frog tape right on that line and then you can just right now paint it and the frog tape will swell and keep it from bleeding through but just one added extra measure all i do is take some clear caulking i'm gonna put some clear caulking right on that edge of that tape right there just gonna wipe it off because that's gonna pre-seal the edge of the tape and then i'm gonna paint right over it and pull my tape while it's wet so i've got my paint right here this takes my white paint pull my tape while it's wet now i've got a perfectly straight line so one of the things i really don't like is putting on my mask after i've used it for a day and you know because all the oils from my skin from the previous day and the dirt and paint and dust are in there so i like to clean my mask out every single time i use it and then it also disinfects it how i do it i just take rubbing alcohol because rubbing alcohol disinfects and it also dries really fast so you just take a clean rag and i just wipe down the part that seals to my face because it'll even give you a better seal because typically if you don't do this it's all dusty and grimy from the previous use and i don't like your paint from the other day on there and you can see the alcohol takes the paint off really fast makes your mask even smell fresh too because they don't like smelling my breath from the yes the day before so i do that and sometimes if it's really dirty too i just take a little bit of alcohol put it inside swish it around and that way it disinfects the whole entire side good to do if you were sick and you were painting and stuff so just to disinfect your mask and now it's all nice and fresh and clean that's what i do every single day that i spray prior to spraying because they just want my face to feel fresh and i want to smell a fresh mask every time i do it simple hat simple hask or hack we'll call it a hack simple hat cleaning your mask have you ever wondered how professional painters work inside of stairwells like this and get up high and do ceiling cut-ins well one of the tricks of the trades is using a ladder tool like this this is made by pivot and it levels a ladder on stairs so i can take this now i can work it down my stairs i can take a six foot ladder or any ladder set it on here and now it levels my ladder inside of the stairs if i needed to reach higher i can use the ladder level or box right here in conjunction with a pivot extend climb ladder and level it in this stairwell i can just work it down this stairwell leveling my ladder on each one of these steps and that's how i actually hung the pictures in this stairwell there's a lot of other uses you can use this box for besides just inside stairs you can use it on a roof you can use it outside on uneven ground et cetera you can go check out their website there's all kinds of really cool tools i've been using these things for over 15 years now i think had them in my vehicle and they last almost forever a great tool simple hack for working inside of a stairwell hey you know i'm here in the greco booth and it's took him 18 years to figure this out but i don't know why this is it hasn't dawned on me a long time ago but see when i'm spraying typically i'm spraying with one hand and this hand is doing nothing i can't wait it's in my pocket or someplace not even being useful this is the way to go we've got this little system right here i swear this is this is gonna be revolutionary i'm gonna start spraying with two guns now two guns are better than one so check it out here we go now why the heck hasn't somebody thought about this 15 years ago dual head tip extension you ain't got nothing right here two guns are better than one so there you go five really cool painting hacks you got a bonus one right there don't take it too seriously because it wasn't actually true i was just goofing off having a good time out of one of the painting and decorating shows go check our facebook out and our instagram out if you liked the video if the tips and tricks and hacks are good please give me a thumbs up hit the little notification 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