Cleaning Paintbrushes When Painting an Exterior Wall

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Hello. My name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter. And, today I'm representing ExpertVillage.com. Okay. Now, we going to go ahead and clean up our brushes. After we finish the job and every thing's all poured up, I usually bring my brushes back here to, to my own shop. Now, I have a nice deep sink that I like to work in. Now, if you don't have that available to you and you have to clean up on the site, be sure that you're, you're paying attention to where that painted water is going. Because even if you've gotten most of the paint out, that paint residue in the water will stain black asphalt, concrete and even dirt and some grass. So, be sure that you're doing it in an area where it's going to completely wash away. Okay. We're going to start with this brush we used on the, on the eaves. And, you can see here, that I've already kind of begun getting it wet. Now, I like to use warm water. It just works the best. And, you just dunk that brush in there a few times. Now, what I'm doing is I'm going to pull the brush bristles down so that the paint comes back down on it. And, you just work it this way. Now, take your brush and work side to side a little and get that excess paint out of your bucket. Okay. Now, once you've done that, you can see, once I got some of the main stuff up, done, you can see all this kind of dried up paint along the hilt of the brush, that's why we use the wire brush. You take the wire brush and you just scrape right along those edges. Now, even if there isn't a lot of, a bunch of paint build up on there, still use the wire brush. That's what evens out the whiskers on your brush. Now, get the ends too. So that, you get all of it. And, this right here is what'll really extend the life of your brush. Go ahead and get all of that real good. Alright. And, once you've got that done, just go ahead and dunk it again. And, dunk it down in there good and hard so that the paint goes into the hilt. And, then you want to pull that water back down over it. Now, you see that paint, that all living in there, that's what you're doing. You're working that out. And, just keep doing it until you get all the paint out. And, that's how we clean up a brush off of a job site.

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