Skip to main content

Review of Outlet and Switch Covers

2:24
5:17
3.2K views

At 2:24 in

Innovative Tool Inventions for Professional Painters: The Future of Painting

What happens here

The next items are plastic 'Outlet and Switch Covers' in red and blue. These reusable covers are designed to clip over electrical outlets and light switches to prevent paint from getting on them. The presenter notes that they stay on without tape, but points out they fit very loosely. He suggests they might be suitable for roller painting but not ideal for airless spraying, where the force of the sprayer could easily knock them off, potentially creating more cleanup work than they prevent.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Paint Sprayer (mentioned)
  • Paint Roller (mentioned)

What they say

Hide

it's the paintbrush um paintbrush cover.com outlet and switch covers so um here we go these stick this one goes on an outlet so what happens is it kind of pinches on the switch it goes over there and it just stays on no tape uh reusable this one looks like it's going to go into a um an outlet like as this would plug into the probably the ground holes of an outlet I did actually at the show uh see these things in an outlet these things are on there extremely loosely I have a feeling um an airless sprayer would knock one of these things off like really easily cuz they're just kind of barely like sitting on there so I don't think you'd want to use them you know with an airless sprayer you can use them you know with a roller and stuff they are um I was I say they're stackable but they're not stackable um never paint over your Outlets or light switches again not for me oh we do have one you want them let us know if you want them let's see we've got the all

Auto-generated from the video audio.