Post-Application Workflow and Material Justification

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Painting Trim with The Idaho Painter

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What happens here

After the first coat dries, the painter follows a strategic workflow: applying paint to the main body of the house (if applicable), then immediately removing the masking tape from the trim. This quick removal prevents the tape from bonding too strongly or tearing off paint. He then applies a second coat to the trim for enhanced durability and complete coverage, noting that the previous paint lasted 15 years due to proper application. He explains his preference for water-based paints on exteriors due to environmental regulations, better availability, faster drying times, and reduced risks associated with hazardous overspray and fumes compared to oil-based options. He also clarifies that while he brushes trim, he typically sprays cabinets for a smoother finish, or would use a foam roller if rolling them.

Goal: Manage the drying and masking removal process efficiently, then apply a second coat of trim paint, leveraging the benefits of water-based paints and appropriate application techniques for different surfaces.

Tools and materials

Water-based Trim Paint

What they say

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brushing it the trim it's got really deep rough grain to it and it's very bumpy and you want to get good adhesion and penetration it's better to hand brush it than spray it it's going to last a lot longer if you hand brush it so garcia edwin says best roller for cabinets everyone says one fourth nap or foam uh i would never roll my cabinets but if i did i'd probably try a foam roller i sprayed my cup this guy said i like to paint the trim first and then i paint the siding does chris do that sometimes i always paint the siding first and then the trim second but you know what that's just the way i do it and you got to just decide what works for you um if it works better for you to do the trim first then you'll that's what you want to do um i just find it easier um to you know i just quickly mask off on here spray the body rip that off real fast because um i'm a one-man show and i don't want to leave masking up for a day and so i pull my mask in before i leave the house and for our audience one guy said you're sweating and last week it was cold and rainy in boise idaho and this week today it's supposed to be 95 degrees so no spring in boise yeah so some people are wondering what's taking me so long on this house well um it was raining for like a week and a half and the last time i checked you can't paint in the rain so do you always use water-based paints on internal and exterior trim always i've used water-based paints on houses for the last 20 years so i know in some countries like over the uk they still use oil-based paints on exteriors are there can you give reasons why not to use them um why you don't well i like uh environmental regulations you can't availability they're not available they dry a lot slower over spray is going to carry for a long ways with oil-based paints and that's scary i don't want to breathe them all day long so that's another reason a lot of reasons so so this person says do you face off your corner boards or cut around the edge face yeah it does look nicer extremely labor-intensive um in that but if a customer wants it we charge for it and it's going to take probably about 400 to do that so kevin says greetings from australia greetings from australia mate and it's friday pan says hola so joseph said they dry slower but they cure faster um yeah so he's not a whale-based expert so um he's probably correct but they're also more brittle and don't flex expand and contract like a water-based paint guys

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