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Summary: Learn how to remove face plates on electrical outlets and light switches to paint your living room and other remodeling tips in this free instructional DIY home improvement video.

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Grady Johnson Grady Johnson is an actor, director and producer who has performed and worked in the theatre for over 25 years. Grady’s first company, Table and Chair Product... read more

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How to Remove Face Plates to Paint a Living Room

Hello, my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I represent Expert Village.com. Now, we dropped off this room completely and it's about ready to do the ceiling. But before we do that we're gonna want to remove all these face plates. Now face plates are on your electrical outlets and also up on the switch plates up next to where you flip the switch when you come into the door. So, you need to remove these and keep them all together so that they'll go back into this room. For that I just use a little plastic bag to put them in. So when you're removing them just take out this center screw and it just has the one screw so just screw that out of there. Now loosen it up, careful not to lose it, pull that out and pop that face plate off. Now, if it's stuck just put your knife behind it and pop it loose. Go ahead and throw that in your baggie that way when I get done with the job I'm not wondering where they were left or anything. So go ahead and put that screw back in there and by doing that you're not running around trying to figure out if it's the right screw for the right one. You'll find there's a face plate on every single wall, sometimes more than one. Just take all of the face plates off and keep them in the same baggie and you won't lose track of them, don't leave them lying around the job site, their just plastic and if you step on them they can break. You can also wash these, clean them up if you want or even replace them, they're not that expensive. But, this is how we remove all of the face plates to prepare for painting our interior living room.

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