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Prepare Exterior Elements for Spraying

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Painting a house with The Idaho Painter. Steps to spraying.

What happens here

Begin the preparation phase by assessing the house exterior and identifying all elements that need to be protected or removed. This includes removing downspouts (and numbering them for easy reinstallation), masking off electrical outlets (unless they are to be painted to match the house), masking windows, removing front doors for separate spraying, and detaching light fixtures. The goal is to isolate areas to be painted from those that should remain untouched or need special handling.

Tools and materials

  • Marker/Pen
  • Masking Tape
  • Screwdriver/Drill

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all right luke we're out here we got um our house all prepped we power washed it did the prep work we're doing the painting we started doing the painting but uh we're gonna start walking um through them to give you some pointers what we got to do to get ready to spray the body and complete this house we just started doing the accent color you know just for video purposes but some things we already got the downspout down here we'll just walk around and i'll just point out you know some of the things that we need to do downspouts got to come down definitely want to number your downspouts if you don't number them it's going to be a big mess trying to figure out where they go getting them back up we're going to um anytime we got um electrical outlets we're going to want to mask those things off unless they've been painted that one's already been painted so we're gonna paint it to um you know match the house we'll when we start spraying the body we're gonna mask off our windows so we're gonna be uh painting front doors we're gonna take the front doors off today we're gonna spray the front doors so that they've got to come off um come off we're going to mass hardware off um light fixtures we typically always remove light fixtures so we're going to want to take those down one screw those things are going to come off um mask windows any type of the footings down here we typically don't ever paint footings but the footings have already been painted before so we'll have to decide whether we want to paint them gray to look like

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