Doggy poop bag is what we use for our sparkling batter bags, received this tip 10 yrs. ago from a retired painter. Great to see these trade tips are being spread to everyone. As a professional I do not fear DIY, I Truly encourage it!
Hey Buddy first off I just want to say how much I enjoy your videos I'm 60yrs old I painted for 45 of them everything from high dollar commercial bldgs to $3mill custom homes to $200 & less apts it didn't matter we did it all I thought I knew a lot of tricks and I did but you never cease to amaze me....High Five Buddy
Wow Chris, great tips, I have painted for 30 years, and until now for the last 20 years I thought I new everything. Guess I was getting stale, thanks for waking me up. Over the last year watching your channel I have got faster and better.
Certified painter here with 24 years in the field. Sometimes I think, hey man, don't tell all of our secrets, people won't call painters anymore if they learn how to paint. Don't ruin the business :D Great tips. Small details matter to make the job easier and faster. I appreciate the video, and I know that it takes years to master some of the techniques in painting so we should still get phone calls for work :D
I don't even paint and absolutely hate painting but watch your videos its just really satisfying and life is so much easier when doing anything if you have the right tools
Some good hacks. Thanks for sharing. Don't need brush bag. I've used TIN FOIL for 40 yrs to wrap wet brushes and works great, inexpensive and disposable. Wrap and fold over bristles at top and mold tight over handle a little for a good seal. Replace as needed. I prefer heavy duty. To improve wetness and easy carry I recommend Purdy's wet bag. Put the bag with the brushes or just the brush in the foil in the refrigerator after work if you'll be using it next day. I can keep a brush open for 3-4 days this method. Any longer I recommend cleaning even if you are still working the same color. I also wrap clean release painters tape around the ferrule and over the heel of the bristles. I cover all the metal. When time to clean peel toward bristles. This will help to block paint from getting into the ferrule which is what stiffens a brush over time and ruins it, and also makes cleaning easier. I have brushes that were handed down from my father who was a painter too who taught me these things that are still in very good shape and still in use.
I've been using hooks on my brushes for a couple years now, I also bend them out just a little to keep the bristles from bending in the bucket. It also is helpful to allow the brush to drip dry before putting it away in the sleeve.
Really liked the patching in the zip lock bag,but actually most impressed by holding the roll of tape on your wrist so simple and obvious but apparently not to me. Great video.
Great tips. I’ve always wondered what the deal was with the spray hose whip. I’ve got to try the cup holder for the brush and bucket. Nothing more maddening than dropping the brush in the bucket. Thanks Chris!
I'm happy to see a ringer who organizes brushes like I do. Question: I stripped & painted my kitchen cupboards last summer, why do the items in them still [lightly] stick to the shelves ? Keep the great videos coming !
This is all brilliant. I'm a DIYer, and on one hand, this will help me do a better job (even though it won't be perfect), and on the other hand it helps me appreciate what to expect, and why to pay for a professional, when it really matters.
Thanks for all the helpful videos and has made pairing a whole lot easier ! Watched your rolling walls video by over lapping 50 percent and keeping edges wet and moving along the wall and twisting the roller after loading up with paint.
Great tips! I got one more. I noticed you keep the tape on your forearm while doing a taping task. Great idea, I’m always picking up and putting down (and losing) my tape. Definitely going to try that one...
Chris, still using your videos as a primary video training tool for our painting class for our Facilities Maintenance Technician Training Program. Tell Graco that based in large part to your videos we purchases a Graco Magnum Pro X19. It just came in. I have the class building two simulated training walls on castors so we can move them around. I'll also be using the brown paper rolls for paining practice so we don't have to wait for paint to dry between student attempts. The wall simulators will also let me teach patching, plumbing, and basic electrical maintenance techniques all using the same simulator. I would ask that you use more PPE. I know you've been doing this a long time but good safety is still good safety and I want my people to practice appropriate safety practices. Keep up the good work.
Another tip if you plan on using your brush for latex paint again.... wet your brush with water before you start painting. (obviously shake the water off before you dip it in the paint.)
Good video!!! I’ve noticed your speech is getting better. Not to say it was bad but you’re more concise and appear to be more comfortable opposed to when you first started. Keep up the good work learn a lot. LUV IT!!!
I have been painting professionally for 5 years and i have to say, you guys are doing to right. I love the tips and tricks and i’ve learned a lot for you guys. Thank you. Keep up the great work fellas. Your friend from Northern Michigan, Michael. 😎
Would have liked to see the corner plus roller in action, others have tried similar ideas with a pad that fits on the end of a sleeve but it never took off.
I found your channel through suggested videos. First I’d like to say I find your videos very captivating. I just started a You Tube channel so I have a lot to learn from channels like yours. Please keep it up! Just subbed!
I might have to use the spackle trick tomorrow, mainly to keep from toteing around the spackle can. definitely my least favorite part of painting is filling nail holes in trim. thanks for videos as always.
Love your stuff man. I'm a painter/ carpenter. Bro I applied so many things I have learned from you. Made my boss take note. Got me a $.. what your cut? Just kidding I got 6 boys we need penny.. ty for putting all this out.
As a remodeler, I can't believe those cup hooks don't get in the way when you want to reverse the brush? ( I do have a love affair with rare Earth magnets tho...) Hinge pins: I don't remove them to grease, as you did in the other video, I just pop them up partway and shoot them with dry lube and a paper shield.
You have mentioned before that it is best to paint ceilings flat. When using the corner roller to take care of cut ins on the ceiling, do you go back and cut in the walls with the satin/semigloss/etc? Or do you just get close and call it good if it is the same color?
Take care of them and clean well and even mid quality brushes and rollers will last a long time. I have some brushes and rollers I've used for 4 or 5 yeara
Mr. Idaho Painter, I really like your videos, and you've taught this old dog some new tricks., and now I need help fixing a problem that I haven't ever encountered until now: Four years ago I painted all of the interior walls and ceilings in a duplex I own, and now I’m seeing discoloration in the surface coat. I covered every square in with 2 coats of KILZ and then 2 coats of Valspar Signature for the top coat. If KILZ is a stain blocker, how can I be getting stains ? Thank you in advance.
Love your videos and love your tips and tricks especially the one on getting sharp lines with tape and caulking that was super and help me out on a job
Thanks Chris for the hacks! I have a job coming up. My customer wants to paint her wood trim white but not the doors (doors and jambs are also natural wood through the whole house I told her my honest opinion to not paint the door trim . But she want the baseboard painted white ( which butts up to the door trim). I’m in a dilemma. She is a long time customer should I tell her if she wants me to paint any of the trim she needs to paint all the natural wood or should I tell her That she should leave all trim alone unless she wants to paint everything. Or is my opinion just wrong and I should do wha she wants???
Any tips for painting old mobile home walls with wood paneling? My husband recently lost his job and we are moving into a smaller place. I wanted to paint the walls to make it look a bit nicer. Thanks!
Hi there, luv your channel. Recently had a knee injury. Getting on ladders to cut a color on a wall where it meets the ceiling is not possible yet. Any hacks for getting it done from the floor with an extension pole?
Assito todos os videos desse trabalho incrível, o mais profissional eh esse cara!! great guys, all the videos its perfect, absolutily help for painters
Can you recommend a particular brush for me? My situation is that I am painting a flipper house for my dad and while I’ve done some painting in my life I’m not great at ceiling edging and my brush is so stiff and crappy that it hurts my hand to edge with it. I’m wondering if a softer bristle brush could help me not to have to much hand fatigue..? Or maybe the brush I saw you mention in another video that has a flexible handle that allows you to bend it..?
If cut a white ceeling with flat white using a corner brush, then roll my ceeling Then cut my white walls with white eggshell, then roll e.t.c will there be a demarcation at the top of my walls from the ceeling cut that was made with the corner brush ? can you answer aswell in the context of adding colors instead of white. thank you:)
Great tips thanks ..I got one as well when u use your tape to separate colors or to make a perfect line use some caulk on the edge of tape and clean it out ..caulking will penetrate the tape keeping the paint In a perfect straight line ..after u painted before it dries pull your tape always downward so the caulk don't peel the new drying paint off..easy does it.
How well does two gallons of the same exact color paint match when getting it from like a Home Depot? I just painted an area and underestimated the amount of needed paint and need some more. If I go buy the same color again, will it match or will it be noticeable? Any tips for this type of situation?
I would like to meet this guy and have a painting competition, he seems good, I think I'm better 😎 come on paint life let's make it happen!!!!! Seriously!!!! Make for good content, and its always interesting to see if your as good as you think you are against another expert!
@@Idahopainteroh no, not what I meant at all!!! I was implying that after year of doing the same thing, you, or at least I have reached a point where I feel there is not much left to learn in the trade, and there is probably nothing I haven't seen. I've worked with and seen many painters through my career, and personally feel I've reached the point where I can say I am now better than them, even the original foreman who thought me! I've seen many many of your vids and you sir also know what your doing! I've found friendly competition at the jobsite really helps nail down technique and speed, and you seem like you would be good competition! Cant tell me you dont show off the skills to newbies who come around to learn the trade or even summer work!!!👍👍👍 seriously tho, sleep on it, your good!
Love your videos!! Do you have any tips for me? I love to paint and keep my house fresh but... each time I paint I lose my freaking mind and say I'm never F&%*$*! painting again... lol. But then I forget my pain and end up painting again, same result... Your thoughts?
That orange Shure tape is impossible to get here in KY. My SW dealer can get it but I have to order an entire case. Wish amazon would start carrying it.
This is 20 years of trade secrets distributed freely. Wow, literally wow, Infinite thanks for your generosity. x
For those that seek this great knowledge.
@@Orangedome 00o0olllll
Doggy poop bag is what we use for our sparkling batter bags, received this tip 10 yrs. ago from a retired painter.
Great to see these trade tips are being spread to everyone. As a professional I do not fear DIY, I Truly encourage it!
Hey Buddy first off I just want to say how much I enjoy your videos I'm 60yrs old I painted for 45 of them everything from high dollar commercial bldgs to $3mill custom homes to $200 & less apts it didn't matter we did it all I thought I knew a lot of tricks and I did but you never cease to amaze me....High Five Buddy
Thanks for sharing🤙 Paint Life!
Thank you Chris! I just painted my house after viewing and applying all your tricks and tips, came out beautiful!!!!
Wow Chris, great tips, I have painted for 30 years, and until now for the last 20 years I thought I new everything. Guess I was getting stale, thanks for waking me up. Over the last year watching your channel I have got faster and better.
Thanks for sharing and watching🤙
If youre not learning everyday then whats the point!
Certified painter here with 24 years in the field. Sometimes I think, hey man, don't tell all of our secrets, people won't call painters anymore if they learn how to paint. Don't ruin the business :D Great tips. Small details matter to make the job easier and faster. I appreciate the video, and I know that it takes years to master some of the techniques in painting so we should still get phone calls for work :D
I don't even paint and absolutely hate painting but watch your videos its just really satisfying and life is so much easier when doing anything if you have the right tools
Thanks for sharing and being with us and who knows you might find out that you love painting!🤙
Some good hacks. Thanks for sharing. Don't need brush bag. I've used TIN FOIL for 40 yrs to wrap wet brushes and works great, inexpensive and disposable. Wrap and fold over bristles at top and mold tight over handle a little for a good seal. Replace as needed. I prefer heavy duty. To improve wetness and easy carry I recommend Purdy's wet bag. Put the bag with the brushes or just the brush in the foil in the refrigerator after work if you'll be using it next day. I can keep a brush open for 3-4 days this method. Any longer I recommend cleaning even if you are still working the same color.
I also wrap clean release painters tape around the ferrule and over the heel of the bristles. I cover all the metal. When time to clean peel toward bristles. This will help to block paint from getting into the ferrule which is what stiffens a brush over time and ruins it, and also makes cleaning easier. I have brushes that were handed down from my father who was a painter too who taught me these things that are still in very good shape and still in use.
I've been using hooks on my brushes for a couple years now, I also bend them out just a little to keep the bristles from bending in the bucket. It also is helpful to allow the brush to drip dry before putting it away in the sleeve.
I use small flat head nails much quicker for me.
Thanks Chris. Great tips, all of them. I am an amateur painter with several rentals where I do all the work myself. Your channel is very helpful.
Really liked the patching in the zip lock bag,but actually most impressed by holding the roll of tape on your wrist so simple and obvious but apparently not to me. Great video.
My hands are to big to fit a roll of tape around them 😪.
Great tips. I’ve always wondered what the deal was with the spray hose whip. I’ve got to try the cup holder for the brush and bucket. Nothing more maddening than dropping the brush in the bucket. Thanks Chris!
Yo Chris ditch the brush hooks and mount small magnents to your cut buckets. Much like the red purdy cut and mini roller buckets.
I'm happy to see a ringer who organizes brushes like I do. Question: I stripped & painted my kitchen cupboards last summer, why do the items in them still [lightly] stick to the shelves ? Keep the great videos coming !
Holy cow!...... A younger version of John malkovich with awesome paint tips and hacks!!! Thanks dude! :D
This is all brilliant. I'm a DIYer, and on one hand, this will help me do a better job (even though it won't be perfect), and on the other hand it helps me appreciate what to expect, and why to pay for a professional, when it really matters.
I am a beginner and I love painting. Awesome tips, thanks so much. Lots of blessings! 🙏❤️
He is a good pro no doubt
thank u Ive ben painting for over 25 yrs and your tips help I ;like an expanded paint skill set
Thanks for all the helpful videos and has made pairing a whole lot easier ! Watched your rolling walls video by over lapping 50 percent and keeping edges wet and moving along the wall and twisting the roller after loading up with paint.
Glad to help!
Great tips! I got one more. I noticed you keep the tape on your forearm while doing a taping task. Great idea, I’m always picking up and putting down (and losing) my tape. Definitely going to try that one...
Gotta have really small hands. I can’t get 3 fingers through the center
@@BighnicHnicBAWSESTATUS True!
Chris, still using your videos as a primary video training tool for our painting class for our Facilities Maintenance Technician Training Program. Tell Graco that based in large part to your videos we purchases a Graco Magnum Pro X19. It just came in. I have the class building two simulated training walls on castors so we can move them around. I'll also be using the brown paper rolls for paining practice so we don't have to wait for paint to dry between student attempts. The wall simulators will also let me teach patching, plumbing, and basic electrical maintenance techniques all using the same simulator. I would ask that you use more PPE. I know you've been doing this a long time but good safety is still good safety and I want my people to practice appropriate safety practices. Keep up the good work.
Another tip if you plan on using your brush for latex paint again.... wet your brush with water before you start painting. (obviously shake the water off before you dip it in the paint.)
Over my pay grade. I’m just going to paint the inside of closets. Happy New years
Thanks, SO much, for the tip on the spackle!! I am in the middle of spackling + I was worried about the container drying up.
Good video!!! I’ve noticed your speech is getting better. Not to say it was bad but you’re more concise and appear to be more comfortable opposed to when you first started. Keep up the good work learn a lot. LUV IT!!!
Thank you it has taken only 8 years!🤙
I have been painting professionally for 5 years and i have to say, you guys are doing to right. I love the tips and tricks and i’ve learned a lot for you guys. Thank you. Keep up the great work fellas. Your friend from Northern Michigan, Michael. 😎
Thanks for sharing and being with us!🤙
The spackle dispenser bag was super clutch
Would have liked to see the corner plus roller in action, others have tried similar ideas with a pad that fits on the end of a sleeve but it never took off.
If you go to the Idaho painter RUclips page you'll find videos where he's using the corner + roller. Believe it or not it does work I've tried it.
We’re late to the RUclips party, can’t believe were just watching these videos now. Keep up the good work bro!
Pro tips! The only thing I do different is when I catch dust I run the paper in a “u” shape. No tack tape needed but your method is super clean!
Good tip
Thanks for the tips! Definitely come in handy! will be watching more of your videos.
👍
I use tinfoil for wrapping brushes and rollers. It looks clean and much more eco-friendly then plastic.
I never thought of tinfoil. Thanks for the idea.
I found your channel through suggested videos. First I’d
like to say I find your videos very captivating. I just started a You Tube
channel so I have a lot to learn from channels like yours. Please keep it up!
Just subbed!
Late to the party but my company uses cling film to wrap brushes. Super easy to travel with, lasts forever and you can wrap rollers and paint trays
Hacks i will finally use.Thank you
🤙
Thank you for the great tips Chris! Keep up the good work.
Wow man love where this channel has gone in just a short time
I might have to use the spackle trick tomorrow, mainly to keep from toteing around the spackle can. definitely my least favorite part of painting is filling nail holes in trim. thanks for videos as always.
Your welcome!🤙
Love your stuff man. I'm a painter/ carpenter. Bro I applied so many things I have learned from you. Made my boss take note. Got me a $.. what your cut? Just kidding I got 6 boys we need penny.. ty for putting all this out.
Great stuff. Saved me so much time and almost looked like a professional did it!
thank you for teaching all useful tricks. love your videos
My pleasure!
Newcomer, and already like the channel very much. So much new and practical, for small-time everyday painter like me. :)
Thanks Jukka
Really good pointers bro! Thanks for the video.
Any time!
As a remodeler, I can't believe those cup hooks don't get in the way when you want to reverse the brush? ( I do have a love affair with rare Earth magnets tho...)
Hinge pins: I don't remove them to grease, as you did in the other video, I just pop them up partway and shoot them with dry lube and a paper shield.
You have mentioned before that it is best to paint ceilings flat. When using the corner roller to take care of cut ins on the ceiling, do you go back and cut in the walls with the satin/semigloss/etc? Or do you just get close and call it good if it is the same color?
Thank you so much for your video. Can you please let me know which brand or type of spray is lot more easier to paint the house?
How many times do you use your roller brushes before throwing them away? One time?
Take care of them and clean well and even mid quality brushes and rollers will last a long time. I have some brushes and rollers I've used for 4 or 5 yeara
@@aaronjackson2780 yes...use puddy knife to take asses paint off your roller...clean and use again
Thanks man greatly appreciated
hi guys, Daz from Australia, great show, do you have a video online showing your best way to seal a paint can? thankyou,Daz
Not yet!
good stuff doggie bags great for keeping brushes alive
LOL
Mr. Idaho Painter, I really like your videos, and you've taught this old dog some new tricks., and now I need help fixing a problem that I haven't ever encountered until now: Four years ago I painted all of the interior walls and ceilings in a duplex I own, and now I’m seeing discoloration in the surface coat. I covered every square in with 2 coats of KILZ and then 2 coats of Valspar Signature for the top coat. If KILZ is a stain blocker, how can I be getting stains ? Thank you in advance.
Love your videos and love your tips and tricks especially the one on getting sharp lines with tape and caulking that was super and help me out on a job
Thanks for letting us know!🤙
Thanks Chris for the hacks! I have a job coming up. My customer wants to paint her wood trim white but not the doors (doors and jambs are also natural wood through the whole house I told her my honest opinion to not paint the door trim . But she want the baseboard painted white ( which butts up to the door trim). I’m in a dilemma. She is a long time customer should I tell her if she wants me to paint any of the trim she needs to paint all the natural wood or should I tell her That she should leave all trim alone unless she wants to paint everything. Or is my opinion just wrong and I should do wha she wants???
Any tips for painting old mobile home walls with wood paneling? My husband recently lost his job and we are moving into a smaller place. I wanted to paint the walls to make it look a bit nicer. Thanks!
High gloss paint use a brush it'll have a good look when it's done. Wipe down the paneling first
Cool tips big man...every days a school day.....
Awsome! Keep the videos coming Chris.
Thank you for watching and being with us!🤙
Thank you for all the amazing info !
Must be nice to be able to wear the tape around your wrist. I can’t even begin to get my hand through the center. 3 of my fingers will barely fit
I loop mine to my apron clip.
Very helpful. Thanks
mud mix ball!!! never seen one, want one!
Me too
Great Tips! Thank You!
I'm new to painting and this is cool.
glad to help[
Great video, that plaster sanding trap is a great idea. I've always tried using a shop vac while I sand, but it's awkward.
Thanks for sharing🤙
Hi there, luv your channel. Recently had a knee injury. Getting on ladders to cut a color on a wall where it meets the ceiling is not possible yet. Any hacks for getting it done from the floor with an extension pole?
I have a video on it
Nice tips...nice guns too💪🏻
Really enjoying the show
Big thanks
Plz do a video on house painting for the first time..
I have over 800 videos for you🤙
Assito todos os videos desse trabalho incrível, o mais profissional eh esse cara!!
great guys, all the videos its perfect, absolutily help for painters
Just from the first tip I know this is gonna be a great video
Thank you🤙
Thanks Chris!
Awesome hacks! TY!
Can you recommend a particular brush for me? My situation is that I am painting a flipper house for my dad and while I’ve done some painting in my life I’m not great at ceiling edging and my brush is so stiff and crappy that it hurts my hand to edge with it. I’m wondering if a softer bristle brush could help me not to have to much hand fatigue..? Or maybe the brush I saw you mention in another video that has a flexible handle that allows you to bend it..?
Seriously love the hack videos need more
If cut a white ceeling with flat white using a corner brush, then roll my ceeling Then cut my white walls with white eggshell, then roll e.t.c will there be a demarcation at the top of my walls from the ceeling cut that was made with the corner brush ? can you answer aswell in the context of adding colors instead of white. thank you:)
U been watching me or something. I'm a commercial painter over here in western Washington paint a lot of schools use those tricks on the daily.
🤙got to share what we know!
You’re great. Thanks 😊
Glad to help Stunny
Nice tips Chris...I liked the brush hook..the bag but mostly the the ball for mixing compound!💪👍
Great video, what’s the name of you taping tool you used with the cardboard paper?
I like the spackle hack
Great tips thanks ..I got one as well when u use your tape to separate colors or to make a perfect line use some caulk on the edge of tape and clean it out ..caulking will penetrate the tape keeping the paint In a perfect straight line ..after u painted before it dries pull your tape always downward so the caulk don't peel the new drying paint off..easy does it.
Great tips from a true professional
Thank you!🤙
And luckily just by pure coincidence every "tip" (product) can be purchased in his shop
Congratulations Man i am painting in Brazil
Awesome!
How well does two gallons of the same exact color paint match when getting it from like a Home Depot? I just painted an area and underestimated the amount of needed paint and need some more. If I go buy the same color again, will it match or will it be noticeable? Any tips for this type of situation?
How you clean your paint grids ? Love your videos
Cool tips Chris . Thanks for sharing.
Your welcome🤙
Thank you Chris! #1
awesome tips thanks bro
No problem!
How do you clean your paint brushes? I'm using water based paint.
Pretty Boy cleaner from paintlifesupply.com
Your so awesome... thankyoou
I would like to meet this guy and have a painting competition, he seems good, I think I'm better 😎 come on paint life let's make it happen!!!!! Seriously!!!! Make for good content, and its always interesting to see if your as good as you think you are against another expert!
I share what I do! I never made a claim that I am as good as I think! I hope you have a good success career!
@@Idahopainteroh no, not what I meant at all!!! I was implying that after year of doing the same thing, you, or at least I have reached a point where I feel there is not much left to learn in the trade, and there is probably nothing I haven't seen. I've worked with and seen many painters through my career, and personally feel I've reached the point where I can say I am now better than them, even the original foreman who thought me! I've seen many many of your vids and you sir also know what your doing! I've found friendly competition at the jobsite really helps nail down technique and speed, and you seem like you would be good competition! Cant tell me you dont show off the skills to newbies who come around to learn the trade or even summer work!!!👍👍👍 seriously tho, sleep on it, your good!
Love your videos!! Do you have any tips for me? I love to paint and keep my house fresh but... each time I paint I lose my freaking mind and say I'm never F&%*$*! painting again... lol. But then I forget my pain and end up painting again, same result... Your thoughts?
I live in Ontario, Canada..could not find the 8" corner + roller you were showing in this video.Where do you purchase yours? Thanks Roy
We sell them on our store at store.theidahopainter.com
That orange Shure tape is impossible to get here in KY. My SW dealer can get it but I have to order an entire case. Wish amazon would start carrying it.
it's also impossible to get around my wrist
Smart!👏
Where can I get that tool you keep pulling out of your pocket to tape lol
Reminds me of honey mooners core a apple episode. Your totally ralph in this vid.
GREAT TIPS ! ! THANKS !
Are John Malkovich's brother?
Nah john cena
where I can buy all this supply (corners paint rolls ,etc