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Use Bucket Screen for Efficiency

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

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Paint Bucket (2-gallon)
  • Paint Bucket Screen (1-gallon size)
  • Paint Roller

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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

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