Hey, this is Chris Yada Hopehater. Hopefully you enjoy this video. This is one of many videos out of my new construction course. Everything you need to know about a painting, a new construction interior. If you want to see that course, it's over and available at paintlifesupply.com. Hopefully you enjoy this video. We've got a lot more that you can see later on. So let me be talking about the abrasives I'm using when it comes to doing new construction, getting interior trim and closets ready. Now you're going to see me switching out between abrasives and I don't use a whole wide variety of abrasives, just a couple. I typically always have a half inch open cell sponge. This contours to your rounded edges, contoured edges, browned edges. So it's a half inch open cell sponge and it's fine. I have three abrasives that I use and they're on pad savers. I have them on pad savers because they're just easy to switch in and out without having to try to take it off the pad saver. So typically like Eccostorm, that's what's yellow Eccostorm cuts and sands a lot faster if you're trying to sand really, really quick. It's a paper abrasive. So the yellow Eccostorm's paper, the blue film tech is actually plastic which will last a lot longer. It won't rip or tear. So I usually have, I would say predominantly film tech, but Eccostorm, you'll sands your closet packs like a lot faster. So I'm typically using a 320. So I have two film techs on 320. So I'll be switching out between those. I'll use 320 on anything flat on my windowsills and stuff. Eccostorm, a lot of times is in the, in the closets. Film tech 320, face of the MDF, wood, you know, baseboards, et cetera 320. I do have a 350. So I have a 150 grit and I can tell it's 150 just by looking at it. It's quite a bit rougher. I'll switch that out if I gotta do a lot of heavy sand. You save the door jams, have a lot of wood grain on them. And I need to like sand them really quick. Sometimes the closet packs will sand a lot faster if your closet packs are really, really rough. These are fairly smooth, but you can use a 150 to sand really quick. Sometimes you're sanding, you know, after the primer, 150 will cut through the primer a little bit too fast. So it gets pretty aggressive. The 320, you know, to me works, you know, really great. These are braces by Unitas. Unitas, the one that where we get our Ekacan sanders from too. So they provide us with our braces and sanders. So three by four is the most versatile sander when it comes to doing this. So those are kind of a little bit about the braces. If you haven't seen your pad saver. So anytime you're actually using a sander, the pad saver protects the hook and loop on there from getting damaged over time. But it also helps eliminate swirls. So that's a pad saver. So if you got guys that you aren't paying attention, the paper rips, et cetera, they wear down through the paper. It starts messing up the hook and loop. A lot easier or a lot cheaper to replace a pad saver than it is the whole pad right here. So pad saver, I got multiple of them. They come, you know, you can get them in packs of three, I believe, or packs of 10. I like having lots of them. It's just easier to switch out with them on the pad saver to another one just like that and begin using it. Switch it out to my fine open cell. Open cell is really good for hitting the edges. These around these corners off on your shelves, wherever you got sharp shelves. It's nice for it finishes off your, where your hinges go, et cetera. So it works really good. These, that's about the variety of braces that I use when I'm working here in new construction and the standard that I use.
