Removing and Labeling Downspouts

all right so one of the last things you know when it comes to getting the house ready not painting things you don't want to paint is the downspouts i do want to paint them but i also want to paint behind them there's chains on a lot of the house so we just wrap some paper around the top of the chain so we don't get any paint on it but we got a downspout here so another thing i um always care it carry in my tool bag is a quarter inch bit to take off downspouts so my quarter inch nut driver so always remove them and i'll screw them right back in where they came came out that way they get painted also and then another important thing is to label this downspout once i get it off you definitely want to make sure you dust dust the back sides of them they're typically got spider webs all over them and everything so so i have my gloves handy and i always set them up and show you how we spray them eventually we when we get to spraying them it's interesting how this was painted the top portion was painted the same color as the fascia i always paint the downspouts all one color all the way up that's my style how i like to do it so it's ready to go and i'll show you i'll always take and label i'm just going to wipe it off make sure there's nothing so you can see here we have the back side of a downspout that was never painted by the painters these downspouts were installed and they kind of brushed them made a mess of them but i'm going to take a piece of tape and this is front side front garage so i'll just put a piece of tape inside that says what this is um front garage down style you can use letters numbers whatever you want to use stick it inside the downspout otherwise you know you don't want to get paint on it that covers it up where you can't read it and it's good to go i think i only got one other downspout to do and then we're ready to start painting these doors right here another handy little tip i keep a handful of these down spout screws a little box of them inside my vehicle painting vehicle because invariably you're going to drop one down the rocks or down the grass and it's not worth spending your time looking for them you'll spend more time looking for the screw than you would if you just grabbed a new one so there's just a couple bucks for