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Scrape and Brush Excess Paint

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Cleaning Your Paint Buckets After Use. Professional Painting Tips.

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What happens here

After a painting session, scrape as much excess wet paint as possible from the bucket into its original paint can using a paintbrush. Then, use the paintbrush to brush the remaining wet paint up the sidewalls of the bucket, creating an even coat on the interior walls. This ensures all usable paint is returned to its can and the remaining thin layer in the bucket is distributed for drying.

Goal: Remove excess paint and prepare the bucket interior for drying

Tools and materials

  • Bucket Screen — Sifting paint and often removed with the dried paint
  • Paint Bucket — Container for paint during use
  • Paint Can — Original container for paint storage
  • Paintbrush — Scraping and brushing paint onto bucket walls
  • Wet Paint — The residual paint in the bucket

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the day, you're going to have your paint in your bucket. And we typically use these size buckets right here for our paint. And we usually have a bucket screen in them. And we'll take the excess paint. We always want to scrape all the excess paint out into our paint can because we want to be able to use that on the next job or the same job. We don't ever want to waste any paint. So, we actually take our paintbrush and we're going to scrape out the inside of the bucket and scrape out as much of the paint as we can. And then once we get as much of the paint out by scraping it out with a paintbrush, then we're going to take our paintbrush and paint and brush the paint up the sidewalls of our pale.

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