Master Interior Painting. The Art of Touch-ups.

this Chris idah hope here on pay live TV today I'm going to be talking about the art of doing touchups this is something that you um it takes some time it takes some practice but doing touch-ups right in the center of a wall can be difficult can be frustrating and I'm going to give you some tips and tricks to make this successful for you so recently I had somebody come into um our sore paint lights of lco and they were um having a lot of frustration doing touchups in the center of the walls so through my questioning the customer they um didn't have the original paint they were going to Home Depot and buying a paint they didn't know the original Sheen and they were just um having the uh a color match done of the color now if you ever try to do a color match from one product from a company and use a different product you're never going to have the exact color and you're never going to have the exact Sheen so your touch-ups are always going to show now um the touch-ups the customer was trying to do is they were removing pictures trying to get the house ready to sell you'll have what we call haloing around the pictures and it's kind of like dust buildup um it could be um fading from light coming in and stuff but there's these Rings where the pictures were they're removing Nails spackling them and trying to touch that up and this can be extremely difficult if you don't have the original pain don't ever think you're going to do touch-ups and have any type of success if you don't have the original paint paint or you're going to the um a paint store and just doing a computer color match now paint stores what they typically do like at your um home improvement stores um Home Depot loads and stuff like that they'll take a sample of the paint just take a color um photograph of it using your color eye they're just going to mix it right up and it's going to be kind of close it's never going to be an exact what you got to do is adjust it um with the human eye from there but even the best color matchers will never get an exact match now even it's even though it's on the inside of a house um you do have Windows that um are allowing light sunlight UV rays to come into the house so you're definitely going to have some ma Sheen loss over time and you're going to going to have color fading over time too so the longer the period of time the more difficult the touch-ups are going to be so don't think you're going to be able to get an exact match if the paint job has been like 10 down the road and you're trying to do touch-ups in the middle of the wall another thing I want to talk about is using the proper tools when it comes to doing touchups now one thing you don't want to do unless you're rolling entire walls if you have the original paints um you have the original um color and Sheen it's a lot faster if I've got multiple touch-ups all over these walls just to roll roll the whole wall That's typically what I'm doing when I go into a job where somebody just wants touchup I'm not just going to try to touch up in the middle of the wall cuz that's extremely extremely difficult I'm just going to re roll the whole wall I only got to get this close to the ceiling I only got to get this close to any type of trim baseboards uh typically if you're using a good quality roller um you're not going to get any stippling I'm not trying to move super fast I can roll a whole entire wall without masking the baseboards and um without masking the ceiling or doing any type of masking when I'm doing touch-ups the middle of the wall I like to use a Premier Hampton brush this is 100% highx nylon brush it's a d pum filament brush they're extremely soft filaments and I only use this type of brush doing touchups I like a 2in angled sash brush um for doing touchups or even smaller but this is my touch-up brush right here you've only got this this wall this house has been painted one time the walls typically don't have a lot of paint on them and a lot of time um if it's say like an eggshell Sheen or a satin Sheen it's extremely dry when you go do a touchup you're building up more paint over the top of that wall and what you're going to do is create a nice shiny spot cuz you're building the sheen up on that wall so it's kind of a really difficult scenario so you don't want to just roll a heavy coat of paint on there if I got a gallon of paint I'm going to pour off some paint into a touchup bucket or a little Pine c um cup and I'm I'm going to put some water in that paint and I'm going to water that paint down a little bit I'm going to water it down probably about around 5% and what that does is that helps cut down the Sheen and cut down from building up you know sheen on top of Sheen when you're doing touchups so you will have more success doing touch-ups in the middle of the wall if the walls have been um painted multiple times because they're not going to be what we consider dry they're going to have a nice even Sheen and you're less likely to get sheen on buildup on those spots where you're doing touch-ups but it's still uh kind of important to um cut your paint you know about 5% if you're um just touching up little spots on Corners like little Nicks and dings on Corners don't just take and brush a bunch of paint on that corner little Nicks and dings you can just use your artist brushes and just touch up the Nick or ding especially you know if we're talking on doors and trim so I'm going to be doing some touch-ups right here and this is the original paint and it's really critical that you stir shake or mix your paint up if you try to do touch-ups and this isn't stirred mixed or shooken up you're going to have problems um with the touch shs they're going to show so I'm going to take make sure I shake make sure I stir make sure I mix this up extremely well so now I'm going to give you um walk you around and show you some scenarios and show you how I go about doing um touch-ups because this is really important that you see you know how it's actually done so you'll have some success we got um some scuff marks some marring right here on this wall and I'm going to be using my Hampton um 2in brush right here and one thing um I want to tell you is what you don't want to do is use a wet brush I'm going to be starting off with a dry brush and um and we're going to be test um doing these touchups the other thing I'm going to be using the original paint I've got a bucket original paint was in a um little court right here and I'm just going to set this inside my bucket cuz I don't want to carry that cord around I like to keep it in a bucket it's got a you know if it did actually spill it's inside the 2 gallon bucket and I'm not going to create a disaster or mess now to do this touchup right here what I don't want to do is this is one of the things I see a lot of doyour sers do and they run into problems they going to take a 4-in roller or take a brush and just brush a bunch of paint over this spot a 4-in roller is going to create a swath across here it's going to create put a lot of paint on it's going to create a Sheen buildup and a big spot right here what I'm going to do is I'm just going to dob my paint in my brush I'm going to put a little bit of paint on the end of my brush right here and I'm just going to dob this paint over that Mark right here and then I'll just feather it out a little bit just like that this is how I'm going to be doing my touch-ups I've got a Mark or Mar right here I'm just going to dob some paint over that and I don't need a lot of paint I'm going to dry this spot up right here a little bit there's the mark comes up right there I'm just going to do it on there just like that you don't have to put a lot of paint on to cover this touchup right here so I'm going to dob some paint on just like this just put a little bit of paint you can see there's just a tiny bit of paint on the brush there's kind of like a scuff mark right here there's a little Mark right here now this little Mark right here is a tiny little Mark I just need a little bit of paint on the end of my brush right here I'm going to touch it up just like just like that feather it out so so I don't have in the Feathering out if you just put a big swath of paint on here a big brush stroke you're going to have your know edges heavy edges and those edges are going to show up really bad so once again it's a dry brush a tiny bit of paint on there so we don't get a lot of Sheen buildup all right so I got a scenario right here we've got a um hole that was in the wall spackled and one of the things that I I'll see you know inexperienced people do they'll Spackle a hole take it like a um flexible spackle knife and just swipe a um swath a spackle over there the Spackle end up filling up the texture around the hole and then you're going to end up with a nice flat spot what you typically um what you should do is just take you a little bit of SP go fill it in with your finger and and then wipe the excess off around the texture so the texture doesn't get filled in now once it's dry I'm going to take my brush just a little bit of paint on the end of my brush and all I'm going to do is DOB it over this area right here and touch that up so I don't want to take and put a Big Brush Mark on here I'm just going to dob it feather it out just like that what we call this is what we call dry feather in it out around that spot now that spot is um all touched up right here I'm going to let that dry all right so we've got another Mark right here we've got a little ding on a corner little bit different color on this corner right here so we don't want to get paint on the corner we do have a big lot of texture right here you could take like a um a Lin bite scraper or two-edge knife and you can easily just scrape that down and flap that out and now just touch up all around that spot so we eliminated that so I'm just going to dob my brush in there get it nice and dry I'm just going to dob around that this whole Mar right here there was a chair or something that and then this corner right here I'm going to take just the corner of my brush and I'm just going to dob it right on the corner and there's a paint taken out cuz it was kind of a chip and if you just scrape your brush right there it's just going to fill that in nicely now I'll just dob it out right here and you can just dry feather it out you know if you need right here dry feather it out there and now that's all touched up right there so there you have it some tips and tricks doing uh touch-ups if you got any questions or comments about doing um touch-ups just leave them down in the comment section below if you've enjoyed the video don't forget to give us a thumbs up we really appreciate it it keeps us making these videos and we'll see you next time right here on plife TV out [Music] [Applause]