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Protect Mounting Hardware and Store Fixture

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

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What happens here

With the light fixture completely detached, the presenter takes a piece of tape and covers the exposed threaded bolt(s) on the wall's mounting plate. This prevents paint from getting onto the threads, which would make reinstallation difficult. He then labels the light fixture with its exact location (e.g., 'middle of garage') using a permanent marker and tape. This ensures that when multiple lights are removed, each can be returned to its original position without confusion. Finally, he advises placing the removed light fixture in a safe place, preferably a bucket or inside the garage, to prevent it from being kicked, run over, or damaged by hoses during the painting process.

Tools and materials

  • Permanent Marker

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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

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