All right. Today I'm going to be talking about straining your paints. Now, this is something I didn't used to do, you know, 10, 15 years ago at all. Nowadays, you got to strain your paints all the time. And I'm actually straining my paints, you know, um, now doing this exterior multiple times throughout the day. So your exterior paints, unlike interior paints, your exterior paints dry really fast, skim over really quick, especially if you don't keep them covered and some type of wet covering over the top of it. You'll get layers of paint like skimming over on the top on the sides. It'll eventually work into your paint lines. You'll eventually start getting clogged gun filters, clogged manifold filters. It's kind of a pain in the neck, but it's uh just a necessary, you know, evil to painting inside and outside. I just highly recommend now before starting any interior painting or exterior painting, straining your paints. The exterior paint I'm using right now is Latitude. We're spraying outside. It's cool temps. We're using latitude, you know, for multiple different reasons. But once again, um, exterior paints are very notorious for, you know, skimming over, skimming over, or even just, you know, as they're being stored, they skim over on the top and they dry on the top of the lids, even though they're new and and never even been open. They'll skim over on the top. They'll put tent in it. They'll shake it up. This stuff will break free. It'll all end up in your paint. And then a brand new 5gallon bucket of paint would end up clogging you know gun filters getting spits. I was getting tons of spits out there because you know the paint was skimming over so fast over the top. I typically will take a cut lid. This will sit on you know with my airless sprayer. Airless sprayer goes down in there. Then I'll take and put a wet rag around that and that will help stop the skimming over process. But it's unfortunately still happens. The way I strain the paints, I use a 5gallon bucket strainer just like this. And I just reuse those strainers. I typically don't ever throw them away and want to make sure my bucket is clean. I've got some paint film that fell in off the side of the bucket. So, I'm going to take put my strainer on and then I'm going to mix my paint up. Always want to stir your paints. Box your paints if you're using multiple fives, multiple gallons. Now, I'm just going to take my paint. I'm going to dump it in my strainer. I have throwaway latex gloves. Just drop my handle right in the paint. Um, not supposed to do that. So, um, but anyways, I'll just dump this paint in there. I want to be careful with this handle. Um, wasn't paying attention. Literally the first time I've ever done that in my entire career painting. Um, that's what happens sometimes when you're filming. So, I'm going to dump everything in there and scrape this off. Now I'm going to take my strainer. I'm just going to lift my strainer out. Lift it up. And then I'm just going to squeeze out this way. You can use like a bucket top strainer, but you got to sit there and wait for it to, you know, feed through the bucket top sprayer strainer. Now I'm going to take this. I've got my, you know, stir whip in there. My hide stir whip. I'm going to turn this inside out. I'm going to fill this up with water. I'm going to take these off. These are throwaway. Set these aside. Fill this up with water and it'll actually just be clean. I'll just rinse it out. Shake it out by turn it inside out. Cuz anything that was strained now will be on the outside of the strainer and it'll just come right off. Now my bucket of paint is strained and ready to go into my sprayer.
