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Box and Thoroughly Mix All Paint Cans

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Painting Perfect Walls. Master Rolling Interior Walls.

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What happens here

The initial critical step for achieving a perfect finish is "boxing" or "marrying" all paint. This involves pouring the contents of all individual paint cans that will be used for a project into a single larger 5-gallon bucket. This process eliminates potential color inconsistencies that can arise from slight variations in tinting or lot numbers between different cans of the same color. Before pouring, it is essential to thoroughly shake or mix each individual paint can. The presenter demonstrates this by showing "tint float" on the surface of a dark paint, highlighting the need for proper pre-mixing to ensure the tint is fully incorporated and to prevent color streaking or unevenness in the final application. He utilizes paint cans from Behr Dynasty that feature convenient pour spouts, simplifying the transfer process.

Goal: Combine all paint cans for the project into one large bucket and thoroughly mix each can beforehand to ensure consistent color and prevent tint separation.

Tools and materials

  • 5-gallon bucket
  • Behr Dynasty paint

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but you have to box your paints mix your paints marry your paints whatever you want to call it it's taking all your paint so that you're going to be using for this project pour them into one bucket because Within These paints you could have a tent machine that didn't dispense enough tens you could have something an issue with one of the products a lot numbers one of the products that could be a different and if you don't box them you're running down the line you run it and you just have a half a gallon and you go back to do touch-ups on one of the walls down where you started and there was an inconsistency with that paint you can have touch-up problems you're gonna have all kinds of problems this is an absolute essential what you want to do is box your pants so I'm going to be mixing all these paints together one of the nice things about Veronica see is they on how these pore spouts you can just pour the paint out now I can see on top of this paint this is a really dark color right here this is another absolutely essential when it comes to getting you know the perfect finish on your walls I got tent sitting on the top of the paint because the paint's been sitting here for a while and um dark colors like this the tents begin to float to the top and it's what we call tip float so we got tent float right here happens really bad with some paints I'm good paints it doesn't happen nearly as bad but I see that so what I notice is I need to shake up my pain so not only do you need to box them but you need to shake or mix your paints right before you um do the boxing gotta say so now I'm getting ready to box my pants these pour spouts of that bear has come up with I've never seen them before from any paints before on any other manufacturers but they are pretty dang cool and they're reusable so now I'm going to begin unboxing my paints do it over your drop cloth I've got three gallons here in the Box let's box these paints they're gonna be in this bucket I'm going to be pouring in my cutting bucket and my roller pan the paint that I'm using uh this bare product I just recently started using it it um just to test it out and stuff I haven't used it um but a couple times I really like the product it dries really really fast so dries really fast so what I was trying to get to is you want to cover the top of your pain so it doesn't skim over

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