How to Paint Your Home

Transcript Hi. I’m Dave Sartori of Brushed Interiors, a New York interior painting and finishing firm. We specialize in high-end boutique interiors, plaster repairs, painting, wood installs, remodeling, wood restoration, and general finishing work. I’ve been in business six years here in New York, with thirteen years construction background going back to Clearwater, Florida. The …

Transcript Here are my tips to interior painting that the average homeowner may not be aware of. Number one, the mini-roller. This is a standard pin roller. It’s less expensive, but it slides on the surface. I don’t like it very much. I had great success with this mini-roller, the ‘Coater’, with the wider handle …

Transcript Well, I completed my paint project and I have some dirty tools. This is the water-based latex paint. I’ve got my brush, roller, and this is a mini-tray so it’s not a throwaway. Those other larger green ones, green plastic, garbage. I’m going to keep this one, though. So here’s my roller. How to …

Transcript Hi, this is Dave. We’re getting into doors. We’re going to paint the door. One hundred grip sand paper. I roughed it up a little bit. Basically light sanding all over and I wiped it down. Again, we’re using the high end self priming paint. Now, this door knob. If it’s too much trouble …

Transcript How to paint wood moldings. I’ve gotten to the point where I sanded, I scraped and I wiped down my area. Again, we’re dealing with an older pre-war [SP] wood molding here. This is the area where we tore out the old wires from Edison and Company and we plaster patched all those areas …

Transcript Okay. Don’t panic. Dave here, with another tip of the trade. Paint spills, how to handle. Do you still have your plaster tools around from doing the patches on the walls? You can scoop it up as if it was a dustpan. In fact, a dustpan will work too, but these are very convenient, …

Transcript How to do cut-in, a very important part of painting. I’ve got my 1-1/2 inch brush, personal preference. You’ll see a lot of painters with a 2 inch or a 3 inch, but I like to have total control. Now go ahead and buy something like this at Home Depot for a couple bucks. …

Transcript Hey guys it’s Dave here Broast Interiors New York painting. We’re finally getting down to painting. Painting the wall and a paint job can be two thirds prep and one third painting and you finally get to the painting and it is quite enjoyable. Now we’ve got our low sheen, we’re going low sheen …

Transcript Hi, this is Dave with Brust Interiors. We’re up here in the ceiling now and we’re going to paint this ceiling flat white. We’re going to take a close look at it. Also be sure to wear some paint gear. You’re going to have paint splatters coming down on you. Now, let’s take our …

Transcript This is going to be a lot of fun. We’re going to do the painting now here in this bathroom. It’s an awesome navy blue. The ceiling is white, so I put blue tape here to create a new line at the meeting of the colors. Always prep your walls a little bit. Take …

Transcript We’re into prepping a bathroom for paint. It was very similar to the kitchen. I used a lot of one mil plastic and protected things like the curtains. I wrapped those up, wrapped tape around them, and then put plastic hanging down. I’ve got blue tape here on this line, of which I’m creating …

Transcript Hi, Dave here. We’re going to get into the painting now in the kitchen, and I’m going to go over a few points again. I sanded down a few points on the wall and smoothed it out, but it’s maintaining it’s character. It’s an old building, and we didn’t get into skim coating or …

Transcript Hi, Dave here. We’re going to go over how to protect the kitchen now. A similar process goes for bathrooms. And this here is your one millimeter plastic. And I’ve already got some of it up. This is what I like to use for ease of use in kitchens and bathrooms. Very important, have …

Transcript Hey, guys. We’re just about ready to paint. So this is your final wall prepping. Really stop and take a look at your wall. This is important. Now, our sandpaper, 100 is kind of a general, safe average for wall prepping. And we have that sanding sponge, multi-use, and also it says “fine”. So, …

Transcript We’re going to talk a little bit about caulking and I’ve inspected this area next to the baseboard and there’s this huge gouge here where an old wire was torn out. Now I’m scraping a clean and it looks like it could be something that if we didn’t want to go so in depth …

Transcript So you’ve got your floor protected. Your next step is protecting your possessions. All the big pieces of furniture, floor lamps, bring everything into the middle of the room. We’re going to protect it with plastic. This is your basic 1-mil plastic. That’s the thickness, 1 millimeter, and that will do just fine. And …

Transcript Hi Guys, Dave here! We’re gonna do some repair on wood molding, and we may not have the time totally strip all the paint off of this wood molding. There may be a hundred years of paint. So, a couple of tricks here to just smooth this out and make this nice. It’s a …

Transcript All right, great. This primer is dry, and we wiped down the radiator. We dusted it out. The best way to paint these is with spray paint. Why go through all the trouble of trying to brush it in? Go to the store and get yourself some spray paint. All the modern spray paints …

Transcript Hi, Dave here. We’re going to talk about how to prep metals and radiators for painting. We want to strip off any loose metal. Any flakes. Take a look at it. Any nuggets. Now, this radiator is in pretty good shape, actually, but you can see little, little pieces from old paint jobs, drips …

Transcript This may not be an easy subject, and it may not be the most favorite, but we’re getting into stripping paint, and we’re using a chemical gel stripper, and the most powerful one, to be honest, is Rock Miracle. There are other brands like Peel Away, and Stripe Ease, but this Rock Miracle is …

Transcript Hi, were going to talk about stripping paint. There are two ways to strip paint. We have a heat gun, a heat gun is not the same as a blow dryer. This has a little more horse power. You have to be careful with it. The other way is a chemical stripper. They both …

Transcript How to patch larger holes. Now, here’s where your Pitbull [SP] Terrier slammed into the wall playing football with your kid and these are oh, no this is scary, you know? This is a very bad hole. How are we going to fix this? Now, no need to worry about big holes and drywall …

Transcript Hi, Dave here at Brust [SP] Interiors. We’re going to go over some basic tools to get you going on a paint job. There’s often overlooked hand tools that I just want to mention. We have here the Five in One which is a scraper, paint opener and basically five uses in one. Very …

Transcript Do you need a primer to paint? Depends on your application. With the modern paints, a lot of times the answer is no. They are marketing all these self-priming paints, and they work pretty well. However, if you’re doing a large plaster patch on the walls as we did here, you can go ahead …

Transcript Hi, this is Dave with Brush Interiors. Choosing a paint color. It doesn’t have to be a long stressed out situation. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on a designer. This is something you can do yourself if you have the time. You have many, many tools at your disposal. Lots …

Transcript I’m Dave with Brush Interiors. All the paints I have here are latex or water-based. Most of your modern paints are water-based, and that’s totally okay. Once in a while you run into an application of using an oil point, the only difference is you need to have paint thinner or mineral spirits handy, …

Transcript Hey this is Dave, now question is, how much paint do you need? This Regal select for instance, 400 to 450 square feet. Okay so you could measure your room, you know 10 feet high, overestimate, 40 feet around, and your going to get your 400 square feet. However, your walls might be very …

Transcript Hi I’m Dave with Thrush Interiors. Let’s talk about different kinds of paint. There’s a lot of brands available out there. In major metropolitan areas, you have your Home Depot. You had your Lowe’s. You’ve got your Ace Hardware on the corner. You’ve got Benjamin Moore outlets, Sherwin Williams outlets. All these companies are …

Transcript Talk about these old New York apartments. Look at this. These are old wires, this was installed by Thomas Edison and Company, American telegraph and telephone pole and it’s all painted in years ago. This old cable, phone cable, it’s actually a coaxial cable but it’s still a big mess some going to tear …

Transcript We’ve got a new your character here. This wall has been the ages of time, you can fill the history. We’ve got some sample colors on here but looking closely at these cracks and we have got to handle these cracks. The screen color is what is finally chosen for the wall and it’ll …

Transcript Alright let’s take a look at this wall. We could have just slapped paint on this wall, but to really do a good job let’s take the time and learn how to fill the nail holes and smooth out the blemishes and make a really smooth nice finish. These here are you mud knives. …

Transcript It is a good idea to remove your electrical cover plates prior to a paint job. It’s much better to take the time to remove these than try to paint and cut around and get a perfect line or anything else because if you want to change it, the design later, you don’t have …

Transcript Okay, we’re here to protect the floor. Rather than just throwing down a drop cloth and making due, we’re going to put down construction paper, and we’re going to use a two part process. Plastic and then the construction paper. Now these are the tools you want to have handy, I’ve got our blue …

Transcript Hi, this is Dave. We’re ready to paint an accent wall, in this case an accent ceiling. Same concept, though. And I’m going to introduce you to the delicate blue tape. This is a little more expensive at the store. It has some writing on it here. The 3M says Edge Lock. There may …