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Cleaning Your Paint Buckets After Use. Professional Painting Tips.

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  • Clean Paint Bucket
  • Clean Paint Screen

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different colors of paint. Now I've got a dry, clean bucket. Take put my bucket screen back in. And this method of cleaning our buckets we found over the years is the fastest, most efficient way to cleaning them. Got another bucket right here. This bucket's probably got, you know, three to four coats of paint in it. I can just actually grab again pulling the paint. The screen sometimes sticks will stick to the side of the bucket, but you can see the screen will actually pull the paint right off too. This works with most of your almost all of your 100% acrylic paints. This method on your first coat that you actually put in the bucket. If it's a flat paint, it won't peel out as much. This works with all our exterior paints cuz we use a satin 100% acrylic paint from Sher Williams, which is super paint. Typically works with all your interior paints, too, that are not flat, but eggshell, satin, semig gloss or above. But you can see the bucket. This one had a little bit left in the bottom. We can peel it out. And the bucket is eventually clean and dried, ready for use. This is Chris, the Idaho Painter, coming to you with our quick and simple method of cleaning your buckets at the end of the

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