Strain and Box Paint

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Before applying your base coat, it is crucial to strain your paint to remove any debris and 'box' your paint for color consistency. Place a 5-gallon bucket screen over a clean 5-gallon bucket and pour all your paint cans (even if they are the same color and brand) into the screened bucket. This process filters out any dried paint flakes or foreign particles. Mixing all the paint together in one bucket, known as 'boxing,' ensures that the entire wall will have a consistent color, eliminating variations between individual paint cans. To strain without getting paint on your hands, you can use a disposable latex glove to squeeze the paint through the strainer.

Goal: Ensure a clean and consistent paint color for the base coat.

Tools and materials

5-Gallon Bucket — Holding and mixing paint
Paint Strainer — Filtering debris from paint
Disposable Latex Gloves — Keeping hands clean while straining paint
Paint Benjamin Moore Regal Select — The base coat for the decorative finish

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All right tip number 4 is always strain and box your paints and now if you don't strain your paint Now days Paints have a lot of debris in them whether they're high in paints or not the high-end paints have less debris in them But if you go to all this work prepping your walls get them all nice and smooth and ready for your Decor to finish and then you paint your walls and you get bits and pieces of paint on them You're just gonna have to go back and scrape and sand that off So you want to spray or not spray but strain your paints now I'm using just a five-gallon bucket screen right here to strain my paints and Make sure your bucket is also clean before putting your paints in there You could strain your paints have a dirty bucket and still get a bunch of debris in your paint So also boxing your paints. This is good practice even though this is just an undercoat for a decorative finish If it wasn't an undercoat you're gonna see this dark color It's very critical that you do box your paints that way you have color consistency from gallon to gallon And if you have to go back and do any touch-ups, you're less likely to Have those show up or see where you start and stop because of color inconsistencies now higher-end paints are less likely to have color inconsistencies than cheaper paints And that is one of the reasons why it's a beneficial to Pay more money for a premium paint now boxing your paint if you don't know the term boxing your paint It's just mixing all your paints together Into one container and then we're gonna stir that up and And then we'll be done. So I'm just gonna empty this in here And then I'll show you you can a little trick If you have just throw away latex gloves, I can take and just use throw away latex gloves to strain my paint and I won't get any paint on my hands. I could lift this up and I can allow it to drain out or if I want to do it faster. I'll have to wash my hands, but Now it's strained. I like to reuse my Strainers. I don't like to throw them away even though they're cheap. Now I can just rinse this thing off Drop it into a five-year-old bucket with water and it rinse it later and then I'll end up reusing it Now my paint is strained not gonna get any debris or any Dirt or anything on my walls once I paint them all right tip number five when it comes to getting the perfect decorative finish

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