Masking strategies: windows, doors, and trim

All right. In this video, I'm going to be talking about what I actually mask, you know, on a house prior to getting ready to spray it. Now, I've got, you know, maybe threequarters of this house sprayed. There's a side right here kind of a lot of different things to be masking, you know, on. So, what do I mask? What do I not mask? We've got lights. Now, I always, well, I I won't say always remove lights. Probably 95% of the time, we remove the lights. One of the reasons, you know, if the customer changes the light and it has, you know, a different, you know, fixture plate or anything that doesn't match the previous one, then you got unpainted or a different colored surface behind that light. So, we typically always remove the lights. Exceptions are ringing cameras. We typically don't remove Ring cameras. Uh we typically don't remove lights that you uh they're so old and oxidized that you could actually damage the fixture. And that has been the case. IO in the past where the it was so brittle. We began to remove the light, broke the light. We're end up responsible cuz even though it was old, we broke it. So now we got to buy the customer a new light. This is a new construction house, brand new lights, easy to remove. Uh easy to reinstall. Uh windows, we typically always are masking windows, masking doors. I've got multiple things. Pipes right here. Got a pipe gas fixture. I don't want to paint this gas fixture. It's nice, nicely powder coated, but we do got some ugly looking pipes that are rusting right there. We're going to take and paint the pipes. I'll mask a nice clean line on the pipe. Make that pipe match the house. Anywhere where there's electrical piping coming out the electrical panel. We're going to uh paint that so it actually matches the whole entire house, we typically will mask a nice straight line. You'll see that down on your electrical panel, which every house has an electrical panel, you know, uh, on the side of the house. These are brand new electrical fixtures, and they're a little unusual. Uh, they're kind of a waterproof electrical fixture here. These type of electrical fixtures, we actually remove them. So, I'm going to show you. This thing is removable. We're just going to pull I'm going to pull these screws off and remove this. So, this comes off this way. And I'll show you how I go about masking it after I remove it. So, that comes off. Yeah, you definitely want to take Don't lose these screws. So, I'm going to, you know, put my screws with my electrical plate. Now, this part is behind the plate. So, you know, I just take masking I just wrap paper around this. Don't touch any exposed wires or you might get shocked. So that is how I would typically mass that. Now this is going to set aside right so it won't get sprayed, won't get overspray on it. That's your electrical outlet right there that we would typically remove. We have this is a um pipe right here that is a gas pipe for you know something maybe like a gas barbecue. So you have the option we've got it's starting to rust on the end. We can paint the thing. We don't want to paint this handle. It identifies what it is. You have the option of masking off just the handle or I can mask off the pipe, the whole pipe itself. I'll wrap some paper around that. Tuck that in. And that's how that is masked off right there. So, this is masked off. All this this won't get any overspray on it. If you're concerned about overspray falling on this, I can take some plastic. I can drape some plastic over it if I want in this fashion right here. I'll just take some plastic, tack it around, pull this up and over. I wouldn't be concerned about it myself, but you might be concerned about it. So, you might want to mask it off. So, I'm going to drop some plastic over that. So, now overspray is not going to get on there. Just tack that down so that doesn't blow around in the wind. And now your gas fixture is protected also. So, I have a water spet. I do have a light. So, if I got light fixtures, I'll show you. When it comes to light fixture or any type of electrical device, I typically wear gloves. You want to go in, you'll shut the light off, turn it on and off, make sure the power is off on it. Even when the switch is off, I like to wear gloves. Um, just as an assurance that I'm not going to get shocked. Now, most lights, we've got two screws or two nuts, not screws. These two knots will come off. This is kind of like probably one of your stereotypical lights. Light comes off. Going to pull wires out. They're wire nutted together. I'm going to take my little nuts, put them back on here so they don't get lost. Now I'm going to begin taking off my wires. So, I'll take my ground wire, the glove, the rubber gloves. So, if there was power on, it would keep you from getting shock. I'm going to take my wire nuts. I'll put them back on the end. Tighten it on there. Keep my wires separated from each other. Now, I'll stick all my wire nuts on. Put everything back in place. This is going to set aside inside the garage where it won't get damaged. We'll take some paper. I'm going to wrap paper around this portion right here. So, my wires won't get painted, my nuts won't get painted, but this is all going to get painted right there. So, that's how I take care of a light. Now, I'm going to take my light. I'm going to take my electrical box. I'm going to put them in a safe place where the hose is not going to drag across it. It's not going to damage it, break it. Got one more thing that I'm going to be masking down here with paper. You're going to see. All right. So, here's a water spot. Now, this water spet has like kind of a plate, a scotching plate right there. I'm going to mask that off. I want all this to get painted around it. Here's an electrical fixture that we reinstalled. So, you can see the electrical fixture. Here's an um an outlet box that's for a hot tub right there. It's painted to match instead of being gray. We've got a light that's reinstalled. We've got a touchup right here on the side of the light that we got to do. But this is how I typically mask a water fixture. here. So, I'm going to just take tear the paper off. I'm going to put it down onto the scotching plate right on it. I'm going to wrap it around that plate. And I I tear it and pop the spot through. That way, I can get a line around that perfect line. Now I'm going to continue to wrap it. Wrap it up. Now that's masked off. Now we've got uh concrete down here. You see I've got concrete shields, you know, down there cuz I don't want anything on the concrete. I'm also going to use a cardboard shield holder and shield that. I'm going to have my drop cloth runners down here on the car on the concrete protecting the concrete. And that's what it looks like. We take uh remove down spouts. We got a down spout right here. I got to remove that down spout. Those are black down spouts that we are not painting because they actually match the house pretty well. We're not painting uh the gutters or the down spouts. I do have a situation up here. I'll show you. Uh drip metal. I don't I don't paint the drip metal, but um this corner metal needs to be painted. the face, it needs to be painted, but that drip metal is black. So, I'm going to show you how I go about just dealing with that because for instance, if that yo, you're painting the fascia white or some other color, we don't want to get overspray or we don't want to get paint on our drip metal unless you're painting the drip metal. But here, fascia's color called green black. The um the house is green black. The metal is black is pure black. So I don't want to get overspray on it. So I'm going to be spraying straight up to there. So I'll just tack that onto there. We've got the metal work right here. So our flashing. So, I've been ma masking off my flashing because I don't want my flashing to get painted either. And I'll shield and spray that corner right there. And I'll I'll roll the corner there. I want to tack this down. Mass the end of this metal work right there. If I'm concerned, you this I'll hand roll this. I'm going be hand rolling some fascia. But if I was concerned about if I was going to try to attempt to spray this, you know, I would just take and throw some masking on my gutter right here so I wouldn't get anything on my gutter. All this down here has already been painted. Just going to take it up to this line. You see this light right here was mass up. That's an actual ring light. So, I typically do not remove ring lights. There's multiple reasons that I don't mess around with ring lights or typically ring cameras. So, I'm going to spray right up to here. Going to get ready to spray this side. You're going to see what that looks like spraying a black