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How to Make Bed Liners Look New Again! The Inexpensive Way to Make Your Truck Shine.

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What happens here

The video introduces the project, which is to re-stain a truck bed liner using Benjamin Moore Arborcoat, a solid color exterior stain. The presenter highlights his previous success using Superdeck on the same truck bed five years prior, emphasizing the experimental and cost-effective nature of using common paint products instead of more expensive automotive bed liners. He also mentions the tools that will be used, which are shown on the truck's tailgate: a paint bucket, a drill with a paint mixer, a Milwaukee leaf blower, painting brushes, a paint roller, gloves, and safety glasses.

Goal: Understand the project's scope and gather initial tools and materials.

Tools and materials

  • Benjamin Moore Arborcoat Benjamin Moore — Staining the truck bed liner
  • Drill with Paint Mixer Milwaukee — Stirring the stain
  • Gloves Unbranded — Protecting hands from stain
  • Leaf Blower Milwaukee — Blowing out debris and drying surfaces
  • Paint Brush — Applying stain to corners and edges
  • Paint Bucket Unbranded — Holding the stain
  • Paint Roller — Applying stain to larger, flatter surfaces
  • Paint Scraper Unbranded — Removing dried caulk or debris from the truck bed
  • Safety Glasses Unbranded — Protecting eyes during drilling and blowing

What they say

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this paint life tv i'm christy idaho painter in this video i got my truck bed right here i'm going to stain this thing with a product from benjamin moore called arbico it's a little bit unusual to do a truck bed with arbor coat but five years ago i did my truck bed with super deck and it's held up for five years and this is the follow-up to that video because you get a lot of people asking me so how did it hold up so here it is five years later a lot more paint i'm spilled in the back of my truck because i'm a painter and now we're gonna make it look brand new again with a different product and do another five-year experiment so if you want to see me stay in my truck bed see how it goes how fast you can do it and how expensive you can do it stay tuned for this video right here we go just some simple little tools and you can go down to your local auto parts store and buy truck bed liner you know products and stuff like that that are three times more expensive but being a painter i was like why can't i just use super deck and just stain staying with super deck that i had left over from a job site and it actually worked out amazing it was very simple to do this was a sprayed on truck liner and it was a flat black and i knew the super deck would stick to it because it was a rough flat black and it's still a rough flat black because it had super deck put on it now this experiment is going to be using right here a product from benjamin moore called arbor coat and we're going to put arbor coat to the test because i've got a whole bunch of arbor coat left over from a project and i just did my trailer so if you want to see me uh remaking over my trailer and i made it looked amazing it's like brand new again and we'll see how that thing holds up but we're going to put this to the test on this truck bed liner and just some simple tools you're going to need i'm going to be using an inexpensive brush from premiere i don't want to use anything expensive because i'm just staying in the back of a truck bed i'm using a premier brooklyn

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