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Prepare for Ladder Safety and Surface Protection

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SPRAYING a House Exterior with an Airless Sprayer!

What happens here

To protect existing gutters and newly painted surfaces, use specialized tools. The presenter demonstrates a 'Ladder Helper' or 'Pivot Ladder Gutter Guard' to prevent ladders from bending or scratching gutters. For spray painting, he recommends a 'Craft Cardboard Shield Holder' to control overspray. He also shows covering ladder boots with plastic and tape to avoid marking fresh paint, noting to use the unprinted side of the plastic to prevent ink transfer.

Goal: Protect gutters and painted surfaces during ladder use and spraying

Tools and materials

  • Craft Cardboard Shield Holder
  • Ladder Boots
  • Masking Tape
  • Plastic Sheeting

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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 [Music] so I want to tell you a little trick here I got all my ladder here have got some ladder boots on it and the ladder boots make it so you know you'll mark up your house or scratch their house freshly painted surface but the ladder boots still will actually leave marks and they'll stick to the paint if you've painted the same day if it's had time to cure out it won't stick to the paint but what I do is take and put plastic over my boots and the plastic won't stick or Mar up your painted surface and you don't want to put the print side up because the print will actually transfer to a freshly painted surface so I just take flip it upside down now I'm gonna just wrap this plastic around my boots and now my boots will not mark up my surface so it doesn't have to be anything pretty I'm just gonna put it on here fold it over on the top like this so now you got a nice clean plastic surface that can lean up against your house and not mark it so I just

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