Prepare the Area for Whitewashing

here getting ready to whitewash some brick with some montage recycled upcycled paint and i'm getting ready to do do that i'm going to do some prep work before i'm going to be white washing the brick only we're going to be painting the house also i'm going to mask this off down here so i don't get any paint on my footings don't like to paint my footing some people do but i like to keep the paint off the footing so i'm going to mask these things off with my frog tape production tape and then we're going to get doing the white washing process and i'll show you what that looks like you take this not necessarily i wouldn't say ugly but just out of date uh brick you know and we're gonna make it look really cool something more up to date what you might see on pinterest or someplace else you know stuff is more modern these days so to just get this masking done right here very important to do the prep work that way you don't get paint where it's not supposed to be so i'm going to be using i just use frog tape orange production tape for my production type of stuff if i get to any place where i don't want it to bleed through i'm gonna be using frog tape green i want anything bleeding down here underneath once i get the masking done right there then i'm going to put a drop cloth down pass this off with frog tape here i'm going to be doing white washing so white washing a little bit different than lime washing and be whitewashing this with paint i'm going to be cutting my paint two to one to do my whitewash so the paint is um montage upcycled paint we're gonna be doing the brick we're also gonna be doing the house also i don't need to worry about getting you know any over spray on the siding or the garage doors or anything because we're going to be painting that after we do the brick itself and it is paint so we don't have to worry about getting overspray on on these areas right here but now i'm going to just set a drop cloth down there never never underestimate the importance of you know prep work and protecting surfaces you know invest in some drop cloths if you don't have any it just saves you frustration saves from getting paint drips where they're not supposed to be and a drop off if you're do it yourself for a drop cloth that's gonna last you forever it's a one-time investment that you'll never have to make again so we're all dropped there ready to go