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DO NOT PAINT a shower. 5 reasons to not paint tile, showers or sinks.

What happens here

The speaker explains the second problem: the excessive amount of dust created by the spray application. He notes that the project required many more spray cans than initially anticipated (at least 6 instead of 2), and these cans produced an unprecedented amount of dust. This dust, combined with the strong odor, caused him to vent the area through a window. However, this action pulled a significant amount of dust onto the walls and ceiling of the entire bathroom, including the bathroom fan, requiring at least two hours of additional cleaning and potentially repainting the walls, making the project impractical due to cleanup demands.

Goal: Illustrate the extensive and problematic dust generation from spray-painting a shower.

Tools and materials

  • Bathroom Fan — An existing fan in the bathroom that became covered in dust
  • Epoxy Paint — The application method that produced excessive dust
  • Fan — Attempting to vent the fumes and dust out a window
  • Masking Paper — Protecting surrounding surfaces during the spray application
  • Masking Tape — Protecting surrounding surfaces during the spray application
  • Plastic Sheeting — Protecting surrounding surfaces during the spray application

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again. So reason number two why I do not paint showers or epoxy showers or bathtubs is the dust. So I began spraying this. I figured, okay, it's just a couple spray cans that we're going to spray this thing with. For one thing, it took way more than just two spray cans. But I started spraying it and I've actually never seen in my career a spray can that created more dust than these spray cans. I uh because of the dust and actually the smell, I started I was venting it out this window and it was pulling all the dust. But uh after about two spray cans, I began realizing how bad this was. But I was already already into the project. And I'm going to show you right here on the side where we were venting it and what it's done. It's created so much dust in this bathroom. I'm gonna have to repaint the walls. I'm going to spend probably two hours cleaning this whole entire mess. So if I actually ever attempted to do this again, you would have to just completely cover this whole thing with plastic. So it's completely unreasonable to do it. There was the option of brushing and rolling it, but I was just like and um just doing that method and not spray cans. I thought, well, shoot, how convenient. We just use spray cans. And I know some people are going to probably want to know, why didn't I just use an HVLP sprayer? That's typically what we would do is use an HVLP sprayer to spray it with. But there there's companies that have come out with these kits now that are just spray cans and or a cord where you can brush it on. So, I just wanted to give that kit a try and I'll never do it again. So, I'm going to walk you over here where I was actually venting this thing. I was actually venting it out the window. I had, you know, a fan blown there. And hopefully I can get a closeup of this to show you the dust. This is just absolutely incredible. This is what the walls look like in here. You can see all this white dust, all of these walls. And it's just completely See up here, we're running a bathroom fan, too. And you can see how caked that is with us. That's all going to have to be cleaned. So, here's what the sink looks like. We had some stuff. You can see all this dust right here. How bad that was. The whole sink is just caked with dust. Even though we had this place masked and covered with viscine. So, now I'm going to talk about reason number three why I would never paint a

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