Clean Up After Roof Eaves & Painting

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Hello! My name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter, and today I represent expertvillage.com. Now we're going to talk about cleaning our paint brushes at the end of the day. Now we're cleaning up our paint brushes can get really expensive. If you don't want to throw them away after every job, you are going to have to clean them. When you're cleaning a brush, the main thing to do is consider the paint that's rolling down into the stock. If it gets down in that stock and hardens up, you're going to have ruined brush. With nylon, we just clean up with water. The first thing you want to do is get some water in your bucket and start stabbing that brush in there to get that excess paint off. Both these brushes. You really want to try and work most of that paint out. You just dab that out of the brush. Just swirl it around the sides and kind of get some of that old paint off of there. You're going to get a lot of paint. This takes a little bit. Once you get most of that worked out, then you want to go ahead and grab your wire brush. You want to go ahead and just pop this stuff on the edge. Just pop this stuff on the edge. You see all that crusty paint from where we've been working. That's where the wire brush comes in. You just want to knock that stuff off of there all the way around. You want to get both sides and you want to get that edge as well. Then just dunk it again. You see we're pulling these bristles to pull that water back down over. The paint is hanging down here in on the stock. You can see that little line running when we pull it. I'm grabbing all these bristles and just pulling them down and together. That pulls that paint down over that paint in the stock. This way you're going work it out. If you're just running fresh water over this like this, that's not really cleaning this out of the stock. What you want to do is get that water to come back over that stock. So you get the water in there and pull it down. You can see that line of paint just coming out of there. That's looking pretty good. What I want to do now is i want to get that paint out of the stock so I shake it out. Just shake all that water down through the stock so it comes out of there. Really get as much out of there as you can. Once you got that shook out, you want to go ahead and tap it on your toe. That's why I wear these rubber toed shoes. A boot works too. Once you got that done you want to shake it out again. And then go ahead and comb that out again with your wire. Make sure there isn't any junk hanging on the wire brush. Just comb it all out. Just even those on out. Once you go those straight, even them out with your hand a little bit and then I'm going to set that off to the side. I'm going to grab my shuck and wrap that up as soon as I'm done, but I still got another brush to work on, my primer brush, but this is how you clean out the brushes when you're doing and exterior paint job.

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