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Comprehensive Vacuuming of All Areas

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Spraying New Drywall - Shop Vacing & Mopping Walls

What happens here

After dry dusting the walls and ceilings, proceed with a comprehensive vacuuming of all areas from top to bottom. Start with high walls and use a shop vacuum equipped with a brush attachment to thoroughly clean the textured drywall surfaces. Pay close attention to corners and any areas where dust might accumulate. Then, meticulously vacuum window sills, window tracks, and window frames to remove any trapped dust or debris. Use a smaller detail brush or crevice tool for tight spaces in window tracks. Next, vacuum the entire subfloor, focusing especially on the perimeter and corners, to collect all the dust that was knocked down from the walls and any additional debris. Finally, use a narrow crevice tool to thoroughly vacuum out all electrical outlets, switch boxes, and floor vents. This prevents drywall mud or dust from being blown onto freshly painted surfaces by the air system.

Tools and materials

  • Crevice Tool
  • Floor Vacuum Attachment
  • Shop Vacuum
  • Vacuum Brush Attachment

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up top and work my day down to the bottom. So, high window sills. I like to just vacuum the whole window. Try to vacuum out the track the the window itself. Get anything off. Even though it's going to be mass, I just like a clean surface. So, we'll vacuum that. like just using just uh like one of these type of ends right here. That kind of brushes it off. Also, windows, window sills. Then we'll get down to the floor. Start vacuuming the floor. You don't want anything kicking up from the floor, especially around all the corners. Technically, I guess you can, you know, you only really need to vacuum a few feet out. You know, it doesn't take much longer. I like to just vacuum the whole entire floor. So, you'll see us doing that. This is the the fitting I use. I want it to go tightly down to the uh subfloor right there. So, it vacuums and gets everything out. Also, the um the vents. The vents don't have covers on them. The one vent right down here had a lot of drywall mud down in there, sanding mud down there. I just take this tip, stick it down there, vacuum out of that cuz you just never know if anything's going to be kicking up if the air turns on. Typically, while you're painting, you're going to have the air off. Even while you're mopping, everything shouldn't have any air on. You want to just vacuum that down there cuz the worst thing is to get your trim painted or your walls painted and the air comes on and it just kicks up, you know, a bunch of dust onto wet paint. Vacuum vacuum out light switch light switches outlets. We'll be vacuuming those out, too. Just hit it with either one of these nozzles. Once we get this all cleaned up, we're going to begin the prepping of the windows and caulking the windows process, getting it ready to spray. So, it's very important to get it all clean, ready to go before you do any [Music]

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