Master Painting Wood Trim

this christy idaho painter here on paint live tv if you ever wondered how we as professional painters get that awesome automobile finish on our trim we're gonna show you we're gonna walk you through the sponge caulking process using this wet sponge and caulking so you get beautiful corners and beautiful lines and we can also show you how we go about spackling and bonding your nail heads so you'll never see them after we're done painting them so stay tuned so here we go we're going to start this process off we always start doing our trim by doing the spackling and bonding process first on the show gabriel exactly how we go about doing this and two things we use one of them is bondo we also got what do you got there gabriel got some specklings crawford's exterior interior spackle also it's good to have a five and one gabriel's got his five and one right here we got this we love the two edge five and one so that will open up your stocking really easy but one of the things we're always looking for on nail heads and this is very common in our industry is the nail heads gabriel you can feel them right here uh they have a lot of them will have what we it's like a protruding head or what we call a volcano so proper language for us is a volcano so we want to scrape off all these little volcanoes right there that makes our surface flat because if we don't scrub scrape those volcanoes off if we spatkle them and sand them if you don't sand them completely flat which is harder than scraping them you're going to see this little gray bump so you'll feel it and just scrape those off so you can scrape them and it's best to use i like a flexible knife right here so this flexible knife is gonna be sharper and it's gonna scrape them off a lot easier then he's gonna scrape those off and then the first process we do is this spackling process we don't use bondo first because bondo shrinks a lot more than spackle bono's gonna be that ultra fine finish in the end that you'll never see it spackling will sand out a little bit and leave and leave a little bit concave so you feel those little volcanoes you can feel them so you got those all scraped off so we're going to start the process off you want some good clean spackling and this spatula is a little bit old but just get some good clean spackling make sure it's nice fresh and soft and then we'll just begin spackling our nail heads like that you're just gonna put a little bit of spackle on there and just scrape it flat the more space when you leave the more you're gonna have to sand so what you don't wanna do is have a big old glob of spackle like that because you're going to have to sand a lot more this crawford spackling sands are really easy but it's good to bake it nice and flat so you can go ahead or gabriel and finish [Music] spackling those so just use i like a really flexible knife that just bends and just makes sure that knife edge is nice and sharp the five-in-one tools the the edges are a little bit duller and a lot of times we're using them for all kinds of things like scraping and stuff like that so they don't have a nice flat edge you want a really nice flat head so get yourself and i like like the inch and a half spackle knife i don't like anything whiter than that so you'll spackle all your nail heads and then that stuff is going to dry really really fast like crawford spaffle by the time you work your way around the house if you're only doing this one window like this window right here that we're doing you're going to have to give it a little bit of time to dry and then we're just going to sand it with a sanding sponge and we use a medium sanding sponge and then we're going to do the bondoing process so you want to scrape that we got nails inside there so when you're dealing with those volcanoes if you got if you're you'll run in you forgot to scrape these right here just make sure all your spackling is off off your knife because you don't want any of the you know chips and wood chips and mixed in with your spatula all right so you got all that spackling done we're gonna let that dry that speckling would dry probably about 10 to 15 minutes so we're gonna sand it we've got a sanding sponge right here we just typically use these block sanding sponges i like those they're flat especially when we're dealing with trim like this that's flat and we're going to sand it and just lightly sand it now if you you sand this back like that right here if i just sand that right there and i just leave that i'm done with that when i spray this right here you're gonna see where that nail head is if you look in the right lighting that's where the bondo comes in place the bondo gives you that better finish that ultra finish where it's gonna completely hide that nail head it sounds sands down finer and harder so you can't see so we're just going to go along sand each one of these with a sanding sponge and once we're done sanding that then we're going to hit it with our bondo in the same baffle mine [Music] all right gabriel you started the sanding process and one thing you want to just make sure it's just have your sanding spun flat on there when you're sanding because you just want to have a nice flat smooth finish and you can even feel your bumps make sure you can feel it and one tip trick you can do is add color like some chalk to your spackling and that way once you've sanded it you can tell you know what you've sanded what's still left behind if you add mine chalk to your like red or blue line talk to your sparkling skirt when it's dry and this can dry red or blue then you know you know what you sanded off if you don't want any spackling left around this area you really want to have dust in the holes so just going to go along sand them once they're all sanded we're going to begin the bondo process the bondo process is once again bondo glazing putty right here it's gonna give you that ultra fine finish i like to have a little block of wood to just put the bondo on and so i can carry some on a block of wood so grab a block of wood here right here i'm gonna put some on walk away with the stuff dries pretty fast so give yourself enough to work with right here and i just put a little dab on there just like that and now you've got a block and then you've got your spackle knife and you're just going to begin applying this just like your stock bulb so i'm just going to apply a little bit on there it's just going to leave just a little bit behind this stuff is a little bit harder to sand so you don't want to have you don't want to have a big blob like that but you want to have enough over the hole that it's going to fill the hole and you have something to sand so it's going to look just like this and just you'll feel it on the knife you'll get a feel for it but it's gonna look just like that so you're just gonna have these little red spots everywhere the bondo dries pretty fast too it's gonna dry here within about an hour you're gonna be able to sand it so you wanna try to not not scrape too hard to scrape it all off so just yeah there you go a little bit better just like that once again the line chalk that we use is just that like for a straight line to snap a line with it's just that powder chalk add that into your spackling so when you're stacking dries and you're standing if your spackling is blue you should only see spackling left where that nail hole is and you shouldn't see blue around the whole edge of that nail hole so that's a good trick that you can use even for filling holes in balls and stuff like that and it's just a good idea good reminder of the places you put it so you remember to stand up here there's nothing like spraying all your trim and realizing you just missed a nail head for nail hole because it's white on white and then you got to go back re-sand that and re-shoot that thing again [Music] pretty good once we once we sand this stuff off we're going to dust it vacuum it and then we're going to get a sponge caulking process [Music]