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Spraying New Drywall - Shop Vacing & Mopping Walls

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  • Brush Attachment
  • Crevice Tool
  • Shop Vacuum
  • Vacuum Hose

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the vacuuming process. So we're mopping the walls, knocking down any loose drywall dust, cuz if you don't, that's going to cause an adhesion problem with the paint sticking to that dust. Of course, you can't get every bit of dust off. But that's what the PVA primer is. It's um helps that dust. It helps seal the rock. It helps seal, you know, so you get a nice good even top coat finish. But it is important to vacuum. If you don't vacuum, you're going to start kicking up dust on your freshly painted walls. You're going to get dust coming off window sills and everywhere. So, you vacuum. So, we begin mopping and then I'll just start vacuuming um what's 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…

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