Understand Masonry Stain and Planning

[Music] you're watching paint Life TV I'm Jun and John and I'm Chris yaho painter and on this video we are talking about the magic of solid color masonry stains where guys go wrong with something like this is when they just start painting it or even to in my opinion priming it and painting it because the paint eventually is going to fail it's going to peel and that's where people get into trouble especially when you got issues with moisture water getting back and forth thus we always use a stain and a solid color stain we're using right here it's going to absorb into the brick it's not going to create a top coat on the brick that could peel so you can see right here we got this orange brick and it's a very dated look and they wanted it to be gray which is a very new and upto-date look so we're using a solid color stain right here we're spraying it on you're going to either want to spray it and back roll it there are some conditions when you wouldn't back roll it isn't there or maybe not yeah so I'm this building out front it's got a different kind of brick that's really porous and has never been coated before and so we uh we used a big brush to basically push some of that stain in to help it penetrate into all those pores yeah we we're not trying to achieve that smooth look where you where you would use a block filler spray block filler back it back roll it all so it smooth it all out we want it to still look like brick look natural but the color there's not a big uh color change like if this was white you're going to have to probably back roll it to fill in uh all the little holes in Porous areas on the grout pretty much but we've got a pretty ideal color right here that we're using so this back we're not having to back roll it no so we're going to show you the