This is Steve White from MasterCraft Painting in San Diego and the next step in this process of painting your home’s exterior is masking and protecting surfaces from the paint. We’re going to show you a little bit of that process. We’re using plastic, tape and some rosin paper.
We’re going to talk about a little bit about masking windows. Here we’re going to show you taping the perimeter of the window with masking tape then we’ll just cut a piece of plastic, the size of the window and put it on. Lots of painters don’t actually don’t do this, so just seal it around the windows but we found that it’s just better to be safe than sorry.
Danny over here is taking some rosin paper and they’ve got some really nice stone steps. We want to make sure we don’t get any paint on those as well, so we’re going to go ahead and cover those up completely so that when we start painting we don’t have to worry about little spills and drips.
If you notice the deck, we’ve completely covered it with rosin paper. This is a composite engineer deck like Trex and it’s very important to keep paint off of this because it stains the surface and it never really comes clean. You almost just have to replace it if you get paint on it. So we’ve just completely covered the surface, also this is patio. We’re going to cover this so that is not going to be stained later. In preparation for painting the stucco, we’ve just completely wrapped that up to make sure we don’t have any problems as well.
So, one of things we like to do at MasterCraft Painting, after we’ve gone ahead and protected the surfaces that we don’t want any paint on is we’re just pulling the lights off. It’s pretty easy, it’s just a few wires. We can pull this down and that way to make sure we won’t get any paint on the light fixtures themselves and if they plan on replacing them, if the sconce is a little bit smaller than the one that’s here, we’ve got paint all the way up underneath the new sconce. We also want to be careful to cover up and protect the wires so when we go to hook that back up, we don’t have any problems.
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