Introduction and Project Overview

this Chris you had a hope here here on Pete like TV today's day three out here painting this house and I'm gonna talk about what I'm doing today and if you haven't seen the previous videos you can go back check out my previous videos we've got the pressure washing of the house a video we've got preppy in the house video and then day 1 and day 2 painting this house alone it's a very large house probably around 3,500 square feet two-story we've got 2 dormers on both sides that you can't access by just walking on the roof so got some challenges there that we're working on but this job to tackle it by myself one of the things you do always want to do is you just think about layer and your layering your job or sequencing the job properly for a one-man crew or two-man crew and what I did first day I just got here I wanted to tackle something simple and I wanted a tackle something I didn't have to do a lot of prep and masking with and that was the accent color so those Gables were very simple easy to do very first and you got to spray your Gables that accent color so you can mask and do the soffits which are a different color so I tackled the the Gables first I tackled the garage doors and then on the side man door day two I wanted to do some masking and in spraying of the body so I did masked all the windows off and I sprayed all the body on on the lower body and then the big Gables on the sides I got all that done now we're day three I'm working on the hard stuff and I didn't want to tackle the hard stuff day one you all wanted to just get myself into it so I've got the first dormer up there some tools that you're gonna need when painting the house that's gonna make the job faster and more efficient for you and just a pleasant more pleasant process if you've got any type of gutters on your house you need to protect them I'm using a ladder helper a pivot ladder gutter guard right here this thing just stick it up in your gutters you can lean your ladders on on your gutters they're not going Bend and you're not gonna scratch them if you're doing any type of spraying you need to have a cardboard shield holder this is a craft cardboard shield holder this is a must-have tool to help you control overspray