Painting a Home Exterior, DIY Tips From A PRO

So I'm getting ready to just do a color match check on this house the house was previously painted with montage paint. I want to make sure this is the right color before we come back to do any painting because if it's not I'll need to get the right color. A little dot on there looks a little bit light of but it's gonna dry. The color montage I think it's blue bayou so we've got that. Something you need to do nowadays is always strain your paints and paints nowadays are just so dirty didn't used to do it like ten years ago never had a strain paints now you have to strain your paints every single time you use them so I just use five gallon strainers throw on a pair of plastic gloves this that way I can squeeze it out get all the paint out and then I just pull the gloves off. I like using this stir whip right here. This is probably the best one I've ever used for stirring the paint. I always roll two coats so the first coat you'll just roll a light coat on so it dries really quick and I use frog tape so nothing will bleed under the windows if I'm doing the windows and it'll dry really fast and I'll go back and put on a heavy second coat and then pull my masking as soon as I do my second coat. Spraying the body is probably four to five times faster than brushing and rolling it so we we always spray the body brush and roll the trim saw window trim fascia door trim we hand roll all that it looks a lot nicer get better penetration and adhesion if you roll the trim when it comes to pulling your masking so I'm gonna pull my masking now and and I'm not just gonna toss it aside what I like to do is I got wet paint I'm gonna start rolling all my masking inside of itself like this right here and if you mask it right it should all come off you shouldn't have to get in a ladder now I'm gonna take I'm gonna get all my tape make sure all my tape is bundled inside my plastic all my wet paint is bundled inside the plastic now it's just a ball of plastic now when you actually put this into the bag you don't have tape like sticking to your trash bag and making your bag all stuck together it's simple little trick of rolling and bundling your masking up before putting it in your plastic bag so I typically will pull the masking right after my second coat while the paint is wet on the masking the masking pulls a lot easier so I'm just gonna pull my masking off I'm gonna get my masking bundled up and I'll bundle the tape all up inside all your wet paint bundles inside I just get all bundled up just like this and now I can put that in my trash bag and now the tape is not gonna get all stuck to all the sides of my trash bag and if you don't bundle up then your trash bag gets all stuck together like this and it completely almost ruins it and makes it non-usable simple little tip when it comes to pulling your masking now now you're stuck probably get roasty in there pretty fast huh did you forget to come out Lisa did you forget did you want to stay in there Lisa how come you're not looking