Project Wrap-up and Key Learnings

all right we're out here day two working on our iron fence and uh you know i haven't done a lot of fences over the years and i haven't used a lot of oil based products and i once i started doing this fence i realized why i don't like oil-based products and they're just messy get on everything get on your drop cloths get on your skin hard to get off the cleaning just getting it off your skin is very difficult but i learned a couple things that i'm going to share with you right here about painting iron fences that'll probably make the process a lot simpler for you at the end of the day we were using drop cloths to make sure we didn't get overspray the over spray is carrying you know only about two feet away from our fence because it got the pressure dialed down really low on the sprayer but um overspray was getting on the drop cloth so when we folded up the drop cloths took them back they're going to stay tacky for quite some time you don't want to drag those things you know into a house the next day you want those things to dry out so we had to let them set out to dry out for about two days what i learned i'm not going to use drop cloths this time i'm just going to roll out four by paper right here so it's four foot wide i'm gonna roll this out along the um concrete and sidewalk that way i can just roll that stuff up throw it away i don't have to worry about my drop cloths getting all black from overspray and i don't have to worry about allowing them to dry out they also get really rough from the oil base overspray and you know that's not a good characteristic of your drop cloth so 4 by paper this is rosin paper i'm going to be using you can use rosin paper or just four by construction paper something that's inexpensive you can just roll up and throw away i know it's an added cost to the job but it's well worth not getting overspray all over your drop cloths another thing i learned is i didn't wear a monkey suit and i've got um oil-based paint on my my um expensive pants so my pants cost about you know eighty dollars seventy to eighty dollars i don't like getting paint on my pants so wear a monkey suit i learned at the end of the day i had over spray on my arms i had it paint on my pants which i didn't like and it doesn't come off now because it is oil based i scrubbed them when i got back i'm just gonna take like a seven dollar monkey suit i'm gonna wear a monkey suit i could just pull that thing off and then i won't have over spray that i have to scrub…