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Prepare and Stabilize Ladder

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Painting A House Exterior from A to Z

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What happens here

The painter demonstrates preparing an extension ladder for safe use. This involves covering the ladder's rubber feet with plastic masking film to prevent them from adhering to or marring freshly painted surfaces. He emphasizes ensuring that any lettering on the plastic does not come into contact with the paint, as it could transfer. He then expands the ladder and showcases self-leveling feet (Werner brand) which automatically adjust to uneven terrain, eliminating the need for manual shims and greatly enhancing stability.

Goal: Securely prepare and position the extension ladder to protect painted surfaces and ensure stability on varied ground.

Tools and materials

  • Extension Ladder Werner — Reaching high exterior areas
  • Plastic Masking Film — Covering ladder feet to prevent paint transfer
  • Self-Leveling Ladder Feet Werner — Automatically adjusting ladder stability on uneven terrain

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so this is our my final hour basically working here you know it's just a matter of getting the last i got two gables i got this gable trim to do up here and then i got one other gable trim to do and that should be like you say about an hour and i'll be done then we're just got a lot of the cleanup done yesterday so i don't have to do it today but right now i've got to get up here on this gable they've got to lean a ladder up on the side of the house and this is kind of just a handy little trick if you lean your ladder with the rubber boots up on the up on the house the rubber boots could tack to the paint especially if i sprayed the body today it's been it's been two days since i've actually sprayed that right there so it probably wouldn't tack but if you just put plastic on your roof boots here or not roof boots but your ladder boots they um will not talk to the house in the letter printing you don't want the letter printing on the plastic exposed otherwise the letter printing could actually um come off on the house so i'm just gonna put some plastic on these roof boots here i keep saying roof boots but they're ladder boots the wind kind of fighting the wind here a little bit doesn't have to be anything perfect so just going to wrap this up around here and any plastic will work it's just convenient i have some you know a plastic mask or you know with me and i just put this plastic on you know i usually put new plastic on every job that i do the last thing you want is your nice paint job and the ladder boot when you move your ladder it peeling the paint off is that it just creates a touch up to do which isn't necessarily all that bad it's just more work it's got tape and plastic on it it's not going to attack to the paint numbers inside [Music] i got self-leveling ladder feet were which are absolutely amazing if you've got extension ladders i always have at least one ladder that has self-leveling feet on them because there's always going to be a situation where your surface isn't level and you're going to be trying to grab a rock or a stick or something to try to level your ladder those level self-leveling feet simple easy to use they're made by werner and it takes about an hour to install them i got a video

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