Skip to main content
Stesso

Wipe with Wet Rags

2:08
12:43
49.9K views

At 2:08 in

DISASTER Clean UP Paint Spills: Job site Disasters

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

After the bulk paint has been collected, the next phase focuses on removing the remaining paint that has stained the asphalt. This is achieved by using wet rags. The rags are soaked in buckets of clean water and then used to wipe the painted areas. The process involves repeatedly wiping the surface, rinsing the rag in a bucket, wringing it out, and repeating until the visible paint is removed. The video shows multiple buckets of water being used to ensure clean rags are always available and dirty water is segregated, preventing re-contamination. This method is crucial to avoid spreading the paint over a larger area, especially near storm drains.

Goal: Wipe away remaining paint using wet rags, frequently rinsing and changing rags/water to avoid spreading contamination.

Tools and materials

  • Buckets
  • Rags
  • Clean Water Tap water

What they say

Hide

big keys is to you know not panic and and just you work quickly but don't panic and any type of panic if there's you know customers around what they're gonna do is they're gonna sense that see that and then they're gonna begin to panic but if you just keep calm just working it cleaning up the mess as quickly and as efficiently as you can so i've contained it on this cardboard i've got some on the cardboard i've scooped up as much excess as i could put it inside my cut-in bucket now i'm going to begin using wet rags to begin wiping it up [Music] one thing you don't want to do is panic grab a hose and start using a hose to to clean up this mess because you'll just end up dispersing the product in a larger path and you know there was a storm drain right by here within probably 10 feet and we don't want this paint to go down the storm drain because this storm drain could be connected to the boise river and and you could just be adding contaminants to places you don't want it to go and it ended up leaving a big wider swath of paint you know on this parking lot right here so now just working quickly and efficiently i'm using cool water to start to wipe up this but once again one of the keys is you know when you're you've got a spill or a paint disaster is to you know not panic to you know stop you don't want to stop too long but just stop you'll think about what you're doing think about you're not creating you know worse of a disaster and how you're going to go about cleaning this up i've said it before and you know one of the big differences between a journeyman painter and a an apprentice is a journeyman painter just knows how to fix all of their mistakes so i just so happen to have a bunch of rags these are all just rags that you know i had in my vehicle that i'm just using clean water we had you know water faucet nearby and this is one of the you know when you're starting to paint on any job what i typically do is i start by filling up three buckets of water on a job site and having that water available you know for a disaster is one of the reasons why we you know have buckets filled up before we even start painting you can see this is a white primer on black asphalt and if you just keep you know working you can get this up and the thing is is to continue to use clean rags so i'm going to take my rags clean them get the paint up rinse them in water and continue to use clean rags

Auto-generated from the video audio.