Prepare Paint (Box & Mix)

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Before starting any painting project, it is absolutely essential to 'box' or 'marry' all the paint you plan to use. This means pouring all individual cans of the same paint color and type into one larger container, like a 5-gallon bucket. This prevents inconsistencies in color that can arise from slight variations in tinting or product batches. The video highlights that with dark colors, tints can 'float' to the top when paint has been sitting for a while. To counteract this, always shake or thoroughly mix each individual paint can before boxing them together. After all cans are combined, stir the paint in the larger bucket with a stir stick to ensure a uniform color throughout.

Goal: Combine all paint cans for the project into a larger bucket to ensure color consistency. Check for and address any 'tint float' by thoroughly mixing the paint before pouring.

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5-Gallon Paint Bucket

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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

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