Proper Application of Standard Drop Cloths

video so once again we have your different thicknesses in drop cloths eight ounces um you can get them as low as six ounces now i would never recommend buying a six ounce drop cloth for anything so they're just too thin they're not going to really serve any purpose now an eight ounce drop cloth they're great for runners they're great um for um when you're just rolling when you're spraying and stuff now these drop cloths are not designed for you to spill paint on them um and keep paint from bleeding through so what was happening we had some furniture you know sitting on these drop cloths the employees were painting brushing and rolling and paint was getting on around the feet and stuff like that and that's actually quite a bit of paint getting on the drop cloth and that paint is actually going to bleed through what happens with a drop cloth like this an eight ounce drop cloth a six ounce drop cloth if you were to spill paint on it you have a short amount of time before you got to get that drop cloth up take it like outside take it to a location where you can drape it over something and it'll actually dry out it's not going to stop the paint from permeating through and getting on your surface it's giving you a certain amount of time to get the the disaster or the scenario up and out of there now when it comes to just stippling paint coming off rolling a wall or over spray something like that they're very effective for um for that because it's just tiny droplets of paint the drop cloth the drop cloth is going to absorb those droplets and it's not going to go through the canvas now if you're spilling paint um if you're getting a lot of paint on these drop cloths there's drop cloths that are made