Paint House Footings Precisely

because you want to get your paint down below the dirt line once it dries we'll just backfill that dirt we got drips of paint we got overspray you got black overspray white overspray we want these footings to look really nice if you got room for a four inch roller you definitely want to use a roller it's a lot faster a lot easier to do if you can't roll it you're just going to have to brush it but i don't want to get my roller in the dirt so i'm just going to brush these here you can see that we got white overspray we got block over spray i'm going to cut down to this dirt line [Music] so i'm just using a flat paint you could use a concrete stain i've used both over the years they both work equally well but you don't need anything expensive just want to get it up underneath the lip of the siding there where you can see that white overspray [Music] you know some painters would paint this white all the way down but i just i like my footings to be the color of footings you know like a concrete color so i'm gonna choose something that's similar to the natural color of the concrete there's a lot of colors that work well just grab yourself a fan deck and just put a fan back up against your footings and just choose a grade that looks similar you can see we got a bumpy corner here pretty tight but we want to get a nice line up in there to make it look a lot better [Music] using a roller has a tendency to push it down in the holes a lot better than a