Steps preparing to paint a house. How to prep a house for exterior painting

so today we're out here getting ready to whitewash some brick we're going to be painting the exterior and doing this brick so we do got to take off these lights i always remove the lights when doing the exteriors because we always want to paint behind them because you never know when the customer is going to replace the lights so you want to paint behind them i'm going to give you some tips and tricks removing them one so you don't get shocked and another so it's a lot easier when it comes to reinstalling your lights so i'm just going to get up here take these things off i like to have a tool bag with me to have certain tools that make removing the lights a lot easier so one of them is having a wrench with you if the nuts are really tight so this one loosened up really easily there's just a few little nuts or bolts that you're just gonna take off right here to remove this light to get it so it'll come off now the light will suspend and hang right there just like that i don't want to lose those little nuts so i'm going to take those little nuts i like using frog tape something that has a long release time on it because you don't know when you're going to be reinstalling those lights i'm going to take that light i'm going to tape those nuts right back on that light right now right there now they're not going to fall anywhere and get lost they're going to stay right with the light now when it comes to undoing the wire nuts on this light i like wearing rubber gloves and that's kind of an insulation so you don't get shocked you don't know if the the lights are on or off these have got sensors on them that would turn them off in the day they would have power at all times and the sensor would turn it off in the daytime so i'm going to now use my rubber gloves to remove these wire nuts so i don't get shocked so i'm going to take remove one at a time and i'm going to take remove that wire i'm going to screw that wire nut right back on just like that so we got a black we've got a white there's going to also be a ground wire so i'm going to remove the white screw that wire nut back on we've got a ground wire right here i'm going to take that off now my light sit in here just like that and now i'm also going to take a piece of tape and i'm going to label this light exactly where it came from and i'm going to write on here that this is the um middle light of the garage right here wiring that's going to go right back on my ground wires now another thing we've got our bracket right here installed i like to take a little piece of tape and put it on the little bolt that sticks out so we don't get any paint on the thread so it doesn't make threading it a lot more difficult if your wire nuts aren't on tight i like to just take some tape and put it over the wire knot say if you got a single wire sometimes if you've got a single wire there's multiple wires here so the wire nuts will stay nice and tight you can take a single wire put the wire nut on there just like that we're going to move them kind of out of the way right there now i can paint around that light i'm going to label this right here where it came from now that i got my light off what i always keep a sharpie marker in my tool bag so i can label the light where it comes from i just want to write the middle of the garage right here that way i know exactly where this light goes i don't have to think about it i don't have to hunt it down it's going to go just like this my two little nuts are screwed on there now i'm going to set this light in a safe place we're not going to get stepped on i typically put them in buckets you don't want to set them anywhere where a hose is going to hit them where you're going to kick them over break them or damage them it's happened many times before semicide where they're not going to get damaged inside the garage is a good place so i'll show you just a little also so simple tip when you're to tape your nuts on kind of do a cross like this that'll keep them from falling out either side of the tape another thing you want to take and uh be cautious or aware of is this is a light that is a motion sensor light you can see the sensor cover right here is all oxidized coming apart it probably makes this light non-functionable or um it best doesn't look very good because of that bring that to your customers attention ask them if they want to replace the lights if you see something like that those sensors do just get a lot of sun heat and they do oxidize and break over time they'll also get damaged really easy if you're power washing and your power washer nozzle like a spray right at those little light covers right there but bring that to the customer's attention make sure if they want to replace those lights or get those sensor covers repaired do that before you reinstall them there's three lights right here they're all hooked up in line but we got single wire right here and the single wire then the wire nut will not screw on and stay on so you want to make sure that thing doesn't fall off so i'm gonna just take a piece of tape and i'm going to put a piece of tape on there that's going to secure that wire nut on there so it does not fall off now i can put these back in place i don't want to lose wire nuts and be hunting hunting all over for them get tape on my tiny little bolts that are sticking out that's good to go now i'm going to get ready to um do some painting once again i'll just a little tip when it comes to you know taping these things especially on your lights right here you don't want to use um use like frogtape delt frogtape delicate tape is a good tape to do if you tape on anything on the finish of the light any type of like production tape or high adhesive tape could pull off the finish or damage the light if you're not going to be reinstalling these lights you know the same day where within two days always use like frog tape delicate tape frog tape blue or frog tape green they have long release times and they're not going to damage the finish to your light if you were to use some type of production tape once again the adhesive could dry on the light when you go to pull it off you might have to clean off some adhesive it's just going to be a little bit irritating and time consuming when it comes to reinstalling your lights [Music] you