Never Drip Again! How to Load a Paintbrush the Right Way

So, I'm going to dip it down in. I dip it down in you about that much. Tap it on the sides. So, now I'll show you how to load up a brush. So, typically my roller hangs on my bucket screen. That's how it usually fits in my bucket, just like that. And so, my brush I hold it in my fingers like this, and that's how I carry my bucket around. Now, I'm going to load up my brush. So, I load up my brush, I don't want to just jam the whole thing in there. I'm typically loading you about half the filaments in there. So, I'm going to dip it down in there, first dip. So, you can see that's the first dip. So, the first dip, and I'm going to just tap it on the sides. And when I'm tapping it on the sides like this, it's actually forcing paint into the filaments. So, I tap it on the sides like that. So, I'm going to dip it in. I'm not going to go crazy and dip it like all the way in. That's pretty ideal to be painting. I can go a little bit, you know, more than that. So, I dip it down in, I tap it on the sides, one two, one two, and it's ready to go. Now, it'll drip off the end like this. Like I can carry it to where I'm going, and that could end up dripping. So, once again, good practice is you tap it to load it and come up and move it to wherever you're going. So, I'm going to dip it down in. I dip it down in you about that much. Tap it on the sides. And tapping it on the sides, if I just take and pull it out, if I just dip it in and take it where I'm going to go, it's going to drip paint. So, the tapping helps load it. And the tapping also gets rid of the drips of paint. So, you'll see if I If I just dip it in and now go where I'm going, I'm going to string paint. So, tap it, load it. Don't go very far, tap it. Both sides, unload it. And you can see I'm tapping it, unloading it, and when I came over here, I'm turning it. I'm turning it. My brush so I don't get any drips. So, that's how you load up a brush. Starting off, I always work I wouldn't say always, but you know, most of the time, probably 95% of the time, I'm working out of a 2-gallon cut-in bucket. And then inside the cut-in bucket, I'm going to be using a 1-gallon screen. So, here's the 1-gallon screen right here. And you'll notice the screen, there's no holes in the screen. It's eventually got filled up with paint. When you buy the screens to begin with, um they're just a wire mesh screen and they don't load up your roller very fast, and they have a tendency to cause splatters when you're actually using it. So, I can't stand the um bucket screens until they actually get almost completely filled up with paint. Eventually, they'll get so heavy that you got to just toss them and um get another one and begin using another one. But this, the way this one right here is pretty dang ideal, an ideal condition. Now, you'll see on the bottom of it it's got a lot of dried paint that's hooked up to it. You can tell that that's how many times it's been used. That's the setup. The brushes typically inside and outside, um I use a um paint life brook brush. So, this is my own custom brush right here, um made by Premier handmade brushes in New York. This is a DuPont um filament brush, Tynex and Oreo. So, it's the best filaments, you know, that you can actually buy that are manufactured, um custom handle, everything. I do all my cut-ins with a 3-in brush. I do all my exterior painting with 3-in brush, angle sash brush. Everything I use uh pretty much 99% of the time is the angle sash brush. The rollers I use a variety of different um rollers, 4-in whiny rollers, 4-in, you know, just conventional larger rollers. Now, the um the roller itself is polyester um knit rollers. They're great for outdoors. Polyester knit is more durable. It loads up faster and unloads the paint faster, so you can um paint longer and farther and quicker with it. But um those um knit rollers, they the polyester knit rollers will release lint, so you want to use them outside. So, they're durable for outsides, for wood substrates, and doing all your exterior painting. For insides, you're going to be using um a lint-free like woven rollers. So, Premier makes um their outside rollers. The knit rollers are coat-a-wool. Inside are their woven pro lint-free [music] wall rollers, and that's what I typically We got spider webs floating around here.