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Painting Perfect Walls. Master Rolling Interior Walls.

What happens here

It's crucial to cover your paint buckets and roller trays, whether you're working indoors or outdoors, to protect the paint. The video demonstrates using a plastic bucket liner, often called a 'brush beanie', which is reusable and can be pushed down to create a cone that removes air and condensation, preventing skinning. Another option shown is a cardboard 'paint saver lid', which fits over the bucket opening and has a pop-out section for the roller handle, but this is less reusable than the plastic liner.

Goal: Properly cover paint buckets and roller trays to prevent the paint from drying out and forming a 'skin' on the surface.

Tools and materials

  • 5-Gallon Paint Bucket

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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 so once you box them you want to get a five gallon stir stick Stir It Up and then the way you go what I like to do is instead of letting my cans set here I'm gonna put my Lids back on and I'm gonna throw these pour spouts into a bucket of water all right now I'm getting ready to roll my walls I filled my pan got my bucket filled uh my five gallon bucket of my box paint sitting here this is something very important one of the things you always want to do as a painter is cover your buckets whether you're inside or outside there's a lot of different ways to cover your buckets one of my favorite is just using a cup lid like this this is a cut lid that we would use if you're um you want to cover your bucket and you're running in an air sprayer another one is a roast beanie which I'm a big fan of broccolini they're reusable is this gonna go on the bucket I like to push it down then I'll get rid of some of the air it kind of creates a cone any condensation and it's sitting outside the condensation is going to build up on the baggie it's gonna drip to the end and drip down into the paint kind of create some water over the top so it won't film over the brush reading there's another little device that goes over a bucket it's a cardboard device right here called the paint saver lid goes on your bucket just like this stays on the bucket just like that um it does have a pop out for a roller right here if you want to pop it out just get your roller can stick out of it has a out there that isn't knocked out so easy but just ends up being kind of like that knockout this is kind of the same is you know the cut lid it is a piece of um cardboard so I'm not a fan of it as much as…

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