Wall Prep

before you start the painting process you're going to want to prep your wall uh to end up getting good results every wall is in every room every scenario has different situations but you know prepping the walls getting ready to paint is extremely important part of the wall prep is going to be patching holes part of the wall prep is going to be removing you know things on your walls um what I call them and it's not this isn't literal but we call them boogers and they're just um what they are is texture spots in the texture that are raised a little bit unusual when the texture was sprayed they're just imperfections in the walls you want to get rid of and and scrape off the walls so you end up with professional uh looking results I get you know questions all the time and I I know this is you know something um you know paint stores you know across the board um it's called upselling uh they try to sell you a primer and a paint they tell you you need your primer walls first I mean we got walls right here they've been painted multiple times they're in good sound condition the paint's in good condition it's not p there's no exposed bar drywall there's no um exposed wood so you don't need to prime it we're looking at walls we've got screws on the walls here um there's typically going to be Nails on the walls I typically if I'm going to rehang pictures back up on the walls I'm just going to paint right over those if I'm going to be um hanging pictures in different places I'm going to be pulling all the screws off the wall I'm going to be pulling off nails off the walls hooks Off the Wall stuff like that and I'm going to patch them and wall prep is going to you know include uh removing your um your switch plates um socket plates stuff like that I hear and see a lot of people trying to hand cut in around them it's just going to make the the painting process you know a lot more painful um not as efficient not as fast and you're going to get paint on the socket plates switch plates St like that so just remove them and then we use socket blockers that cover over the outlets and take the time to do these things don't get in a hurry to get start getting paint on the wall get it ready to paint and it is going to be more enjoyable and um a process that you're in the end just going to have fun doing all right step number three is