You are my favorite "how to" demonstrator. You are very knowledgeable, light-hearted, likeable, pithy, and your self-deprecating humor makes your videos very watchable. Well done!
This was the most informative CZcams video that I’ve seen a very long time! Great advice for the 🐐🐐🐐 himself. As a 2 year home owner I really appreciate this
Thanks for joining us! You can watch my beginner guide for painting a room: czcams.com/video/bLbUIevOxzY/video.html Links to the products are in the video description. Cheers!
Ooooh, I am SO ready to paint my house now! Truly appreciate the questions that rounded out all the little questions left over in my head afterwards. 👍 Awesome video!!! Thanks again Jeff and team!
As a pretty much do it on your own because no one is gonna help kinda guy you’ve helped me and saved me from at least 6 episodes of depression and at least 1 stroke
Couldn’t watch live, this was a great episode. Thank you for all of the great information. I am in the middle of a renovation. Took lath and plaster down, installed 2 new windows. And added insulation in the walls. (1922 farm house in IA) this is the first time these walls have had insulation. Anyways. Got my electrical ran and drywall up. And have started mudding. Thanks to you and your videos I have the courage to attempt this. Hopefully going to be priming and painting soon.
The handy paint pail with the liners is one of the best invention’s especially when you are up and down ladders! They also make a great paint tray also with a magnet and liners too!
I got the Purdy 18" adjustable frame to paint my newly sided garage. Talk about fast! The adjustment works smoothly & the locks clamp down securely. No problem to clean up either even with dried on paint. The corresponding deep tray plus liners work as expected. Haven't used the frame for smaller rollers but no doubt it'll work great. I highly recommend!
when lowes was getting rid of wooster, i bought everything they had of it. it was about 2 pallets and only $200. i have never bought a brush, roller, frame, or tray since.
I learned the hard way for my first diy painting project. I bought the rollers, brushes and trays from a dollar store. The roller sleeve fell apart after several strokes and left fuzzies everywhere. Most of the unused stuff i bought went into the garbage 😝
The better your painting tools, the more fun you’ll have. Purdue and Wooster last forever if you care for them. Shampoo releases paint quickly and a well rinsed conditioner then brush your brush with a comb, like new. My wife helps briefly so I give her a nice brush and a handheld. She looks for holidays. An 18” tray and roller, you’ll knock it out fast, inside and on the deck! Make sure she uses peel and stick sheets for samples. Behind each picture on our walls, I found four different colors!!!
Don’t forget about your stainless steel brush for cleaning paint brushes! And I used to keep my roller IN the paint if I was using five gallons at a time.
That was really excellent. My walls appear to be concrete screed with a skim of plaster ( ie no plasterboard ). Then very badly painted with cheap paint, with no sanding. The paint is dusty. Great to hear that I don't have to PVA it, or wash it. ( I'm renting, but where I live, the regulations are that the tenant has to paint, rather than the landlord. Crazy, I know ! )
Great live that I joined right on time. So true for what you say for ceilings, it’s a pain to paint (thanks for the tip about the acrylic part). And thanks again for answering my question about BMoore flat white. I do mainly empty apartments, between tenants leaving and coming. The owner of the building used to buy Sico, a good paint for a reasonable price. Then the owner got a big reduce price by one BMoore seller and I’m now using that paint. The problem of stiff roller I mentioned only happens with flat white... Your explanation makes sense, it might be added chemicals that makes the paint drying more and more. Like you mentioned a painter can leave rollers and brushes in well sealed plastics. For the flat paint problem I now have to clean the roller(s) at the end of each day. I must say it works pretty good so far but I get the feeling that once the roller is «contaminated» it won’t have a long long life like the other rollers that I have. P.S. : Let’s pick on BMoore again! 😉They confuse he customer by having 7 different sheens for paint, 7!: Flat, Ulti-Matte, Eggshell, Pearl, Satin, Semi-Gloss, High Gloss. Cheers from the canadian maritimes!
Great video, mostly good advice. The 5in1 tool's sharp corner is not for punching holes in a paint can to drip - this is bad advice for paint cans as the paint is too thick and will dry in those holes and produce hard chunks that will fall into the paint and require straining. Learned that first day on the job with a union painter. And talking about paint strainers, those cones are not good for thick water based paints, you'll be waiting a long time for it to drip - use a paint strainer bag instead because you can use your hands to squeeze the paint out. Roller covers - there are good quality woven roller covers, made by Wooster and Purdy, I use the same one all year. You might have given people the idea that ALL woven roller covers are bad and microfiber are superior, microfiber leaves lint too - wool is the best. Overall good video.
Jeff, in all seriousness, those paint strainers are GREAT for straining urine when you’ve been told that you have a kidney stone as well and maybe weren’t given more than one and you accidentally throw it away (nothing like seeing that critter in the strainer, both professional as well as being a patient myself! Love the Wooster products for my retirement painting activities now that I’m enrolled in “CZcams University”. Greetings from DFW.
The reason they do that is because Rona and lowes and dollar tree have the cheap stuff, and they would rather have competitively priced products for people who either don’t want to wash and reuse items or don’t understand the differences in quality. There’s not a single wall in my house that the 18” roller can’t be used. All of my windows and doors are either on walls with 30” to a corner or so close to a corner that a brush is necessary. 18” roller saved me at least three hours per coat. Didn’t paint horizontally and didn’t run two cages. Highly recommended.
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY actually no; I’ve got large windows (6’x8.5’, 3.5X3’, and 4.5’x4’)Only the bathroom and the rear entrance have small windows. In my case, things like switch plates and outlets are either way away from obstacles, or they’re bang up against the corner or casing, so even in the cases where the 18” roller is too wide, so is a 9”. It’s possible my house is one in a million for this specific circumstance, you’ve painted probably 1,000 houses more than me (so probably 1,002). so your statement and position on 18” rollers are probably far more often true than not, it was just so jarring to hear that yesterday considering how untrue it is in my setting. I absolutely love your stuff.
Landlord here, cheap roller and discard end of job, no cleaning saves so much time (just bag it wet end of day and re-use next). Wash walls with a floor mop and TSP. Cuts through all the grease/oils, takes less time than priming, no VOCs, paint same day. Paint with premium paint with more solids (Behr, Benjamin Moore, etc.) Can do just one coat so spend less on paint buying high end!
I'd like to know what your opinion is on air paint sprayers. I used one of my rental house to do the entire inside and was pleasantly surprised with the results and time saving.
By the time I switched to 'pro' equipment, cleaning the stuff was the worst part of painting which says a lot. Wooster locking pole and cage were the biggest quality of life improvements. I've put probably over 100 gallons of paint through a single cage. Great system. Those Handy pails used to have this 'rubber' lip on the front. It was amazing. The 'new' design is just a rounded edge (worse with the liners) making it kinda hard to wipe the brush. I switched back to just using the paint can. For the 5-1, try and get one like he showed with the plastic handle with the 'flat' bottom. I've used a couple of all metal ones, but the bottom of the handle is too rounded to use to dent-in drywall during primechecks.
I will say the cheap roller/cages do have a place. I use those for the same things I use the cheap throw-away brushes for. A - quick, one-off jobs that I don't want to spend the time cleaning stuff up afterwards. Like painting shelving. Paint, bag everything, do the 2nd coat the next day, then throw everything in the trash once you are done. B - when I am using oil-based paint. You ever try to wash oil-based paint out of a roller? It's worth it to buy all new stuff I can throw away afterwards rather than try to clean that roller and cage. I do have good brushes for oils for when I need them. For trim, or polyurethane. But if I am using oils to slap paint on a concrete floor or something, I am using a throw away brush.
to resolve BM related issues - buy Behr Ultra - awesome reasonably priced paint. Behr Marquee is good as well, but IS too thick for non-pro and one-coat is NOT working just like Jeff says
After spackling and sanding an area on a wall, then painting it. How do you get the same look as the rest of the wall? It seems to always look too smooth compared to the rest of the wall.
MICROFIBRE ROLLER SLEAVES : None of the brands I've looked at appear to have "Microfibre" in the title. What other description should I be looking for to get a microfibre one ? ( eg knitted ? or Akrylic ? or Polymide ? )
Just a heads up for Wooster Brush company products it's not pronounced "Woooo-stir" it's "Wuh-stir" like you pronounce the word "worst" but without the "r".
Green tape is not cheaper than blue… the green tape is frog tape it’s a brand of painters tape, which I found has the cleanest release. I Sherwin-Williams has a knock off that is usually orange.. the color I believe has more to do with how delicate of a surface you can put it on
I find premium product ranges absolutely bewildering. Wooster and Purdy make equipmemt that goes from affordable to too expensive for a diy job. Is cheap wooster better than mid priced less famous brand? Totally confusing
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY in the limited time I've been painting(diy) after starting with cheapo stuff and not being happy I did realise that wasn't the way forward.
You are my favorite "how to" demonstrator. You are very knowledgeable, light-hearted, likeable, pithy, and your self-deprecating humor makes your videos very watchable. Well done!
This was the most informative CZcams video that I’ve seen a very long time! Great advice for the 🐐🐐🐐 himself. As a 2 year home owner I really appreciate this
Cheers, glad you found value in this.
1000% in agreement!!!
Thanks for joining us! You can watch my beginner guide for painting a room: czcams.com/video/bLbUIevOxzY/video.html Links to the products are in the video description. Cheers!
you're simply the best instructor that i've ever come across. The amount of valuable information that you give out is exceptional!
I went to Lowe’s and the paint associate was busy. Luckily I chose correctly and selected the Purdy premium microfiber 3/8” nap, 9” roller. WINNING!
very nice!
Ooooh, I am SO ready to paint my house now! Truly appreciate the questions that rounded out all the little questions left over in my head afterwards. 👍 Awesome video!!! Thanks again Jeff and team!
As a pretty much do it on your own because no one is gonna help kinda guy you’ve helped me and saved me from at least 6 episodes of depression and at least 1 stroke
Wow And I am not even a doctor. But seriously. I love making a living helping folks. Cheers!
Couldn’t watch live, this was a great episode. Thank you for all of the great information. I am in the middle of a renovation. Took lath and plaster down, installed 2 new windows. And added insulation in the walls. (1922 farm house in IA) this is the first time these walls have had insulation. Anyways. Got my electrical ran and drywall up. And have started mudding. Thanks to you and your videos I have the courage to attempt this. Hopefully going to be priming and painting soon.
Well done Chris. You got this!
The handy paint pail with the liners is one of the best invention’s especially when you are up and down ladders! They also make a great paint tray also with a magnet and liners too!
Veery true!
So helpful. Needing to paint my newly flipped house. Doing the kitchen today now i know what i need.Thanks!
I got the Purdy 18" adjustable frame to paint my newly sided garage. Talk about fast! The adjustment works smoothly & the locks clamp down securely. No problem to clean up either even with dried on paint. The corresponding deep tray plus liners work as expected. Haven't used the frame for smaller rollers but no doubt it'll work great. I highly recommend!
when lowes was getting rid of wooster, i bought everything they had of it. it was about 2 pallets and only $200. i have never bought a brush, roller, frame, or tray since.
I learned the hard way for my first diy painting project. I bought the rollers, brushes and trays from a dollar store. The roller sleeve fell apart after several strokes and left fuzzies everywhere. Most of the unused stuff i bought went into the garbage 😝
The better your painting tools, the more fun you’ll have. Purdue and Wooster last forever if you care for them. Shampoo releases paint quickly and a well rinsed conditioner then brush your brush with a comb, like new. My wife helps briefly so I give her a nice brush and a handheld. She looks for holidays. An 18” tray and roller, you’ll knock it out fast, inside and on the deck! Make sure she uses peel and stick sheets for samples. Behind each picture on our walls, I found four different colors!!!
Don’t forget about your stainless steel brush for cleaning paint brushes! And I used to keep my roller IN the paint if I was using five gallons at a time.
Thank you for doing this! Always great to hear input about the products to use
I have the graco magnum x5 and it works with 5 gallon paint pails as well. Get an extension for ceilings, works like a dream
Purdy and Wooster is ALL I ever use.
so much great info here. I bought a pricey Purdy cage and pole and it is such a game changer
That was really excellent. My walls appear to be concrete screed with a skim of plaster ( ie no plasterboard ). Then very badly painted with cheap paint, with no sanding. The paint is dusty. Great to hear that I don't have to PVA it, or wash it. ( I'm renting, but where I live, the regulations are that the tenant has to paint, rather than the landlord. Crazy, I know ! )
At least you know how to do it right. Cheers!
Great live that I joined right on time. So true for what you say for ceilings, it’s a pain to paint (thanks for the tip about the acrylic part). And thanks again for answering my question about BMoore flat white. I do mainly empty apartments, between tenants leaving and coming. The owner of the building used to buy Sico, a good paint for a reasonable price. Then the owner got a big reduce price by one BMoore seller and I’m now using that paint. The problem of stiff roller I mentioned only happens with flat white... Your explanation makes sense, it might be added chemicals that makes the paint drying more and more. Like you mentioned a painter can leave rollers and brushes in well sealed plastics. For the flat paint problem I now have to clean the roller(s) at the end of each day. I must say it works pretty good so far but I get the feeling that once the roller is «contaminated» it won’t have a long long life like the other rollers that I have.
P.S. : Let’s pick on BMoore again! 😉They confuse he customer by having 7 different sheens for paint, 7!: Flat, Ulti-Matte, Eggshell, Pearl, Satin, Semi-Gloss, High Gloss.
Cheers from the canadian maritimes!
Cheers to the Real East Coast!
About 4 years ago I saw him use the Radius360 and I bought it. That device is amazing when you can't justify a wall sander.
18 inch cage is great for ceilings
You can pain kitchen cupboards with a mini roller.
Great video, mostly good advice. The 5in1 tool's sharp corner is not for punching holes in a paint can to drip - this is bad advice for paint cans as the paint is too thick and will dry in those holes and produce hard chunks that will fall into the paint and require straining. Learned that first day on the job with a union painter. And talking about paint strainers, those cones are not good for thick water based paints, you'll be waiting a long time for it to drip - use a paint strainer bag instead because you can use your hands to squeeze the paint out. Roller covers - there are good quality woven roller covers, made by Wooster and Purdy, I use the same one all year. You might have given people the idea that ALL woven roller covers are bad and microfiber are superior, microfiber leaves lint too - wool is the best. Overall good video.
That's super useful info on masking tape. Thank you!
Totally enjoy these videos!!
Jeff, in all seriousness, those paint strainers are GREAT for straining urine when you’ve been told that you have a kidney stone as well and maybe weren’t given more than one and you accidentally throw it away (nothing like seeing that critter in the strainer, both professional as well as being a patient myself! Love the Wooster products for my retirement painting activities now that I’m enrolled in “CZcams University”. Greetings from DFW.
The reason they do that is because Rona and lowes and dollar tree have the cheap stuff, and they would rather have competitively priced products for people who either don’t want to wash and reuse items or don’t understand the differences in quality.
There’s not a single wall in my house that the 18” roller can’t be used. All of my windows and doors are either on walls with 30” to a corner or so close to a corner that a brush is necessary. 18” roller saved me at least three hours per coat. Didn’t paint horizontally and didn’t run two cages. Highly recommended.
sounds to me like you have long walls and small windows. Cheers!
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY actually no; I’ve got large windows (6’x8.5’, 3.5X3’, and 4.5’x4’)Only the bathroom and the rear entrance have small windows. In my case, things like switch plates and outlets are either way away from obstacles, or they’re bang up against the corner or casing, so even in the cases where the 18” roller is too wide, so is a 9”. It’s possible my house is one in a million for this specific circumstance, you’ve painted probably 1,000 houses more than me (so probably 1,002). so your statement and position on 18” rollers are probably far more often true than not, it was just so jarring to hear that yesterday considering how untrue it is in my setting.
I absolutely love your stuff.
One of these days ill remember you go live on Tuesday
Cheers Caleb
can you make a video showing all your panting tools
Landlord here, cheap roller and discard end of job, no cleaning saves so much time (just bag it wet end of day and re-use next).
Wash walls with a floor mop and TSP. Cuts through all the grease/oils, takes less time than priming, no VOCs, paint same day.
Paint with premium paint with more solids (Behr, Benjamin Moore, etc.) Can do just one coat so spend less on paint buying high end!
the fact that you call behr high end scares me.
I'd like to know what your opinion is on air paint sprayers. I used one of my rental house to do the entire inside and was pleasantly surprised with the results and time saving.
Love this!!
For merch. You should look up bunker branding. The owner is a CZcamsr and he makes merch for a lot of other CZcamsrs.
I want to replace my bathroom counter which has double sinks. What is a good material to look for. I don’t want to put marble .suggestions
27:20 How about stirring the paint as often as instructions say?
By the time I switched to 'pro' equipment, cleaning the stuff was the worst part of painting which says a lot. Wooster locking pole and cage were the biggest quality of life improvements. I've put probably over 100 gallons of paint through a single cage. Great system.
Those Handy pails used to have this 'rubber' lip on the front. It was amazing. The 'new' design is just a rounded edge (worse with the liners) making it kinda hard to wipe the brush. I switched back to just using the paint can.
For the 5-1, try and get one like he showed with the plastic handle with the 'flat' bottom. I've used a couple of all metal ones, but the bottom of the handle is too rounded to use to dent-in drywall during primechecks.
Sorry I must of misses it.. what stiffness of bristle brush to citing a wall
Speaking of great caulk, which one do you advise to buy?
I will say the cheap roller/cages do have a place. I use those for the same things I use the cheap throw-away brushes for.
A - quick, one-off jobs that I don't want to spend the time cleaning stuff up afterwards. Like painting shelving. Paint, bag everything, do the 2nd coat the next day, then throw everything in the trash once you are done.
B - when I am using oil-based paint. You ever try to wash oil-based paint out of a roller?
It's worth it to buy all new stuff I can throw away afterwards rather than try to clean that roller and cage. I do have good brushes for oils for when I need them. For trim, or polyurethane. But if I am using oils to slap paint on a concrete floor or something, I am using a throw away brush.
totally get it. but that leaves 2 other lines of crap on the shelf preying on peoples bad decision capabilities.
If I’m painting my apartment and not a house are there something’s I can opt not to get? I want my paint to look good but it is just my apartment.
Love the video
I prefer Sashco for caulk over DAP
I appreciate your time. Please may you send me link where l can get paints on clearance or a very good deal
to resolve BM related issues - buy Behr Ultra - awesome reasonably priced paint. Behr Marquee is good as well, but IS too thick for non-pro and one-coat is NOT working just like Jeff says
I tried the magimate roller handle you mentioned in another video. It was a POS that got returned, it couldn’t even hold a roller.
I do not even know what you are talking about. I am completely unfamiliar with magimate!
Bro. Where was this video a couple weeks ago when I started painting my new house?
Michelle!?!?...😂
After spackling and sanding an area on a wall, then painting it. How do you get the same look as the rest of the wall? It seems to always look too smooth compared to the rest of the wall.
sometimes you are fighting against a cheap paint that applies with a ton of texture. the only fix is a thin skim coat on the wall .
Is your heritage Irish? Have you watched Derry Girls? Every once and awhile theirs is the accent comes through. Hilarious.
Paint stick that you can suck up paint into the handle so you don't have to use a paint pan.
MICROFIBRE ROLLER SLEAVES : None of the brands I've looked at appear to have "Microfibre" in the title. What other description should I be looking for to get a microfibre one ? ( eg knitted ? or Akrylic ? or Polymide ? )
just use our amazon link to get a bunch for a good price. Or go to a sherwin williams paint store. Cheers!
Just a heads up for Wooster Brush company products it's not pronounced "Woooo-stir" it's "Wuh-stir" like you pronounce the word "worst" but without the "r".
Green tape is not cheaper than blue… the green tape is frog tape it’s a brand of painters tape, which I found has the cleanest release. I Sherwin-Williams has a knock off that is usually orange.. the color I believe has more to do with how delicate of a surface you can put it on
3m makes a green tape that is a 3 day removal. frog tape is only for doing stripers on a smooth wall. not for edging the whole room.
Curious if Sherwin Williams pain is worth the difference in price.
Only when you buy it when it's on sale and it goes on sale a couple of times a year around 30-40% off or if you get a pro account with them
@@moto.squish thank you. I’ve received announcements for discount but I was not sure if it was worth the trip to the store.
BM has more than 46 product lines.......Ahem.
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Tell us how you REALLY feel about 18" rollers! 🤣🤣🤣
I find premium product ranges absolutely bewildering. Wooster and Purdy make equipmemt that goes from affordable to too expensive for a diy job. Is cheap wooster better than mid priced less famous brand? Totally confusing
all I know is you get what you pay for and in painting the tool is a huge part of the success or failure so why cheap out.
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY in the limited time I've been painting(diy) after starting with cheapo stuff and not being happy I did realise that wasn't the way forward.
You can use womens stockings etc for straining paint. WARNING...Not when being worn! 🤔
For God sake it is called Sherwin Williams not Sherman Williams