Dropping Off Roof Eaves Area

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Hello! My name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter, and today I represent expertvillage.com. Now I want to talk a little bit about dropping off the area to prepare for painting your exterior eaves. Remember, before you do any kind of painting, you need to be able to cover the area in a nice wide so that any of these drips hit ground, they're not going to damage the area that's underneath you. Even if you think that area is a little messed up already, which a lot of times there's old paint stuff on concrete, cover it up anyway. You don't want to add to it. If anybody says anything, you can say hey at least I covered it. To that you just want to grab your drops. Today I'm going to talk about 2 basic types of drops. The first one is what is called a 9x12. That's a nice big drop. What that means is it's 9 feet wide and 12 feet long. 9 feet is nice and wide, but these drops are really thin. Even really good ones are too thin. If a drop hits it from a high distance like and eave like we're going to be painting today, it's going to bleed through there probably. Not every time but most of the time, especially if it's a heavy drop so it's important to double these up. 4 1/2 feet is more than enough width for us to work with. We still got 12 feet out here that we can use to cover. Go ahead and throw that out and then even it on out. Make sure that you bring this on out passed the eave a little bit to allow for the eave your working on. Once you have that, then you can grab your runner. If you have a runner, runners are generally 4 feet wide, which is a good width for working on the eaves, but again it's going to be too thin. We're going to fold that in half the other way folding it right down the middle and using that 4 foot width. It'll give us about 6 feet that we can throw out here. Go ahead and cover up the stoop with that. Now that we've got our drops placed we want to go ahead and tuck them in. What this is whenever the drop lays up on the wall it'll tend to flip back. When that flip back, actually the underside it was it being exposed to the paint that's falling. You want to roll that under so that it tucks in that way anything that falls only falls on the top of the drop. Then when you move it, all the paint drops and anything that you're working on is going to be on the top and now underneath, so go ahead and tuck that in. You want to tuck that by rolling it under like this all the way down. That way it lays up on the wall, but it's only going on the top of the drop. Now that we have that done and everything's all tucked in, we're ready to go ahead and paint without worrying about anything that's going to fall from up above. This is how you drop off the area to prepare to paint your exterior eaves.

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