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Protect Foundation, Gutters, and Fixtures

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

What happens here

Address the foundation, gutters, mailboxes, and fences. For footings, decide whether to paint them grey (to mimic concrete) or match the house color, noting that white footings with a white house body might stand out undesirably. If rock surfaces have been previously painted, a new paint coat can be applied (though staining is generally preferred for rock). Paint gutters if they've been painted before; if new or factory-finished, prime them first. Remove mailboxes, doorknobs, doorbells, and exterior lights. For fences adjacent to the house, mask them off properly to prevent overspray. The video suggests using a 9-inch roll of paper and FrogTape Orange for this purpose. Also, clear any weeds or grass from the base of the house to ensure paint can reach the ground, providing a full shield.

Tools and materials

  • 9-inch Paper Roll FrogTape
  • Gardening Tools
  • Masking Tape
  • Paint/Stain
  • Primer

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we want to paint them gray to look like footings or paint them to match the house they would end up being white i think they'll stand out really bad if we do them white because the body's going to be white so i think we'll do them gray and um and so that's the the concrete footings right here i like them to look like concrete footings like we didn't make a mistake and painted them gray uh the rock right here the rock was painted multiple times typically we don't paint rock but we stain rock this has been painted and so we went over the top of that with a paint and looks a lot better now so we started that process right now over here gutters the gutters have been painted if they've been painted before we don't have to prime them the product we use is um is a perfect product that doesn't need a primer if they're brand new gutters or their gutters factory finish they do need to be primed first so we have to spray them we do need to take a mailboxes off so i think there is a mailbox that one has already been removed we need to take this mailbox off um we've already moved doorbells removed doorbell we're gonna remove the lights here uh concrete steps footings walkways we're typically to want to drop a drop cloth down to protect that so we don't get any overspray you know on that we've got a fence where it meets the house um it's very critical that you know we we mask this off mask it off properly so we don't get any overspray you know on the fence you know if you're uncomfortable spraying you'll put um i usually just use one nine inch row of paper on there so um pull weeds and um grass dirt back so this was actually painted we're taking it all the way down to the ground so we can shield to the ground right here um that's the front of the house everything that we need to do to get ready um if you got any water faucets i think there's a water faucet you've already masked over here which is a good job we never want to get over spray on water faucets so so there was a water faucet right here i always want to mask those things off and mask off having nice crisp clean lines so walk

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