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Best Exterior Paint
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Feb 27, 2025
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and we're going live right now it's
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awesome um let me type a message to my
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friend
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Bill uh this time this interface worked
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a little different this time um it let
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me it just automatically went live it's
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crazy
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anyway all right let's get going
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here um today I want to talk a little
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bit about um exterior paint and right
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now it's really kind of cool this
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interface I can tell that um I can tell
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that nobody's watching yet not a problem
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takes a while for people to uh come on
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board here we go so today we're going to
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talk a little bit about the best
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exterior paint um I did a survey of my
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20,000 newsletter people uh over the
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last few days and got a lot of really
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great suggestions for things that you
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want to to discover and to learn about
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and quite a few people wanted to know
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about the best exterior paint and it's
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really kind of an interesting topic um
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remember that you can when you're live
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and when we're live uh you have the
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ability in the chat box you can send me
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questions so feel free to do that and be
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happy to answer them uh you know during
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the during the uh the uh the broadcast
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uh my intention with these is I only
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really only want to stay live for about
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15 minutes or so uh I don't want to
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stretch out the topic uh I think what's
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going to what's going to happen is that
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people will start to ask a lot of
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questions and then that might cause the
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the uh the broadcast to stretch out a
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little bit so if you do have a question
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about best exterior you know exterior
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paints go ahead and ask them now uh so
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here's what we want to know about paint
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the first thing you need to know about
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paint is that it's just colored blue I
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know that sounds crazy uh think about
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when you take a bottle of glue um you
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know it's it's about the same
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consistency of paint uh it's sticky you
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already know that paint's sticky because
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it sticks to your hands it sticks to
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your clothes it sticks to whatever you
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put it on as long as you prepare the
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surface right and uh that's exactly what
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it's supposed to do all right
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so that means if you want to have an
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exterior paint that really works well uh
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you want to have one that has a really
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good glue component and in the paint
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industry that's kind of called the the
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the resin you know uh that if you look
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on the paint can label like I have one
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here I found an older can of paint um
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and right here on the label although
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this was a custom mixed color and this
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is a label they put on at the paint
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store but underneath it right here on
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this side it it says what's in the paint
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and in this particular paint the sh and
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Williams duration it says that it's an
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acrylic polymer all right so what does
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that mean that that's the resin
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so paint comes in different grades
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different types and we're just talking
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about the ones that you might get at a
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paint store uh at one of the big box
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stores we're not talking about the
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special day Coatings that are used in
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industry that are used on your car those
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are very very special paints all right
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very expensive so
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the ones that you might use inside your
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home or outside your home they generally
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come in three or four classifications
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the cheapest paint it will have a what's
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called a vinyl acetate resin all right
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so the vinyl acetate that's the same
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thing as like Carpenters glue all right
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that's a vinyl acetate glue uh and
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Carpenters glue is very good I mean it
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you know you can use it and put wood
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together and wood will stay together for
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a long time um the next grade up is
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acrylic so like 30 40 years ago acrylic
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paints were considered uh the best of
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the ball I mean if you had a 100%
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acrylic paint uh it was really high
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quality did a really good job and
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acrylic paints even today still do a
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pretty good job uh in my opinion the
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best paints are the ones that have a
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urethane component all right so think
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about urethane have you ever if you've
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ever brushed on urethane on wood or some
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surface uh you know how sticky it is I
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mean
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urethane is is it's extremely sticky I
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mean it bonds and you can't hardly get
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it off so years ago I mean this is going
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back 20 25 years ago this particular
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brand of Sheron Williams paint called
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duration was made with a urethane resin
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but they changed it up uh probably about
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10 years ago go and they they they made
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a new line in in the Sheron Williams
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line called Emerald that is the like the
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line and emerald paint if you look on
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the label or if you talk to the paint
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store manager or go to the Sher Williams
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website you'll probably discover it's
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got a urethane resin so those are the
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type of paints you want to use Outdoors
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all right they they just are fantastic
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is all I can tell you they work really
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well uh you can get them on Amazon um I
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have links on my website as The Bu a
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website to urethane porch paints so in
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the old days like could go to old old
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houses that had a covered front porch
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they would typically paint that porch
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floor and porch plank porch paints
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needed to be very very durable and um
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the
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um so now if you got a porch and you
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want to paint it you want to use a your
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thing paint all right remember I just
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want to let you know um there's somebody
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uh hi Tim how hey I'm doing great how
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how are you doing it's great to uh great
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to have you here if you have questions
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remember you can always ask them in the
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chat that's the whole point um we're
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trying to stay on topic here uh try not
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to stray too far away from exterior
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paints if you have questions about how
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to install the paint what the best
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conditions to paint under um you know I
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can jump into that for you happy to do
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that um all right let me read this
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question I like the information I'd like
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more information about apps uh or links
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to get more informed thanks I appreciate
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it um well
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um I don't know if there's a painting
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app I think I think if you need a lot
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more information about how to paint
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exterior homes or paint anything I
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probably have 20 or 30 columns on my ask
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the builder website that that tell you
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everything you ever need to know about
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painting uh and and and what I've
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discovered over all the years of doing
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it so I would suggest that you go to my
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askthebuilder.com website start there uh
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okay let's go ahead and talk a little
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bit about um the best conditions to
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paint under in other words if you're if
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you had to wave a magic wand and you
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could pick the best day to paint what
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would it be my guess is you might say
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wow I would like to paint uh with it 85
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degrees outside uh sunny and um maybe a
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little bit of a breeze all right so
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that's not a good time time to paint
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it's also not a good time to paint when
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it's 40Ā° and going to drop to uh 32 or
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28 at night uh that's another thing make
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sure when you're going to paint I know
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it sounds crazy a lot of people don't do
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it um they right here so the read the
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label on the paint can read it I'm
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serious it only takes a few minutes and
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it tells you how to get the best results
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all right and typically they'll have on
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the label um the temperature variation
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meaning that it's not a good idea to
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really paint you know below
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40Ā° uh just don't do it you're you're
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pressing your luck I saw somebody do it
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here in my own town just two or three
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months ago I was driving to town I I
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know it was in the 40s and I know it was
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going to drop a little freezing that
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night and somebody's outside painting
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their house just like I thought wow all
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that labor and material you're probably
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going to waste it's probably going to
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peel off in the spring here's the
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deal almost all paints today that you're
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going to use like this one uh any other
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paint I I just keep I don't want to have
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a bunch of paint cans here um they're
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going to be water-based all right so the
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water is the vehicle in the paint it's
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it's what allows you toh deliver it and
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put it on and then of course the water
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evaporates and it leaves behind all the
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solid materials and all the chemicals in
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the paint that create the glue just like
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regular glue think about it like if you
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take the really you know cheap uh kids
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glue the white glue the kidss use in
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school uh it's got water in it uh they
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pollute two pieces of paper together
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construction paper the water evaporates
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and the solid parts stay behind and
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holding those cardboard together all
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right
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now the the best conditions to paint
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under um are in my opinion it would be
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an overcast day no wind uh
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60Ā° um and you know maybe it's going to
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drop to 50 at night all right so I know
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that sounds crazy to you you know but
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you know of course no threat of rain
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just an overcast gray day here's the
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trouble if you paint on
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a on a sunny breezy day that's hot the
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water in the paint evaporates too
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quickly all right and so that's not good
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we want the paint to dry slower we don't
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want it to dry too quickly um and also
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if it dries too quickly it makes it very
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hard for you to keep a wet Edge all
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right so um you want to have a wet Edge
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when you
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paint because that helps you uh get a
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better looking finish when it's done
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simple as that so hot Breezy days are
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the
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worst and so so think about that if
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you're going to hire somebody to paint
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your home um you know maybe maybe it's
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best to paint it in the spring or the
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fall fall all right when when you know
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you're not going to have hot weather uh
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simple as that uh at least that's how I
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look at it so um if you have uh once
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again if you have any questions about
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painting Now's the Time to ask because
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we're going to wrap this thing up pretty
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quickly as I said with these new live
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vertical shorts shorts I don't want to
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um you know I don't want to go on for a
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half an hour or an hour that's not a
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purpose of it I just want to hit a
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specific topic stay on topic and then
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answer your questions and then just move
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on simple as that
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um the last thing I want to say about
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the paint is um beware I'll tell you a
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quick little story that happened to me
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uh last year um I went I went to a big
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box store and um actually I I'll tell
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you it was
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Lowe's and I bought a paint there and
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the paint said that it had a um one coat
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coverage guarantee it was an interior
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paint and right on the front of the
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right on the front of the U paint can
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you know one coat guarantee blah blah
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blah so I buy it don't think anything of
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it take it home I you know I know how to
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paint and by the way let me just go off
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on a little tangent here what what
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happens with most rookie painters is
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they they put the paint on too thin all
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right and and that's why you don't get
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good coverage with one coat once again
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when you read the label on the pain can
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it will tell you um how much square foot
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area you're supposed to cover typically
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with a gallon of paint it's somewhere
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between 300 and 400 square fet so think
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of uh think of an average room like a
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bedroom like a bedroom that's 12 by 10
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by 8T high so let's see what is that
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that's um uh uh 80
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80 uh you know in other words were at
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240 plus 160 we're right at 400 square
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ft
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so with closet doors and windows one
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gallon of paint should get you you
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should exhaust one gallon of paint when
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you paint like just a regular normal
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bedroom all right if you have a lot of
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paint left over you've over rolled it
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you you you putting it on too
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thin I go home I use this paint I
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already knew it was there would be a
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really good chance it wouldn't cover
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because it was yellow yellows are hard
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yellows rarely cover in one coat it's a
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really tough color to work with I I take
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the can back and and I go up to the
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counter and say I need another gallon of
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this um because it didn't cover in one
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coat and the guy said okay so he mixes
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up another gallon and then he I I go um
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do you have to put a sticker on this you
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know so that I don't you know get a salt
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Ed when I walk out the door or have the
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police called thinking I'm stealing it
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she say oh wa you have to pay for it and
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I go wait a minute I go look here it
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says that it's one coat guarantee and it
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didn't cover he goes well he goes uh and
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it had on the label by the way this
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paint was um a Sheron Williams paint he
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said well you've got to take that
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problem you got to take you got to get
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your money back from Sheron Williams and
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I thought what so my my qu my point is
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if you're going to buy a paint from
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somebody
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um and and some paint store find out
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what the warranty is find out what you
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have to do to get your money back or to
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get more free paint uh don't I mean do
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that before you buy the original can is
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what I'm trying to say don't don't fall
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under the Trap like I did so uh anyway
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um that's about all I really want to
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talk about about exterior paints I hope
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you enjoyed the live
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broadcast um if you if you want to know
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more about any topic uh you can email me
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pretty simple askthebuilder gmail.com go
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to my askthebuilder.com website use the
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ask Tim Page um you can also uh leave
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comments here on this video if you're
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watching it after we went live uh and
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I'll try to help you as best I can and
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I'm going to try to do more of these uh
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vertical live broadcasts uh in the
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future we're going to try to maybe do
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One A Day and I don't know what time to
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do do them it just depends on what my
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schedule is but uh I want to thank you
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very much for watching and um it's great
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to be back great to be back live I'm Tim
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Carter this has been as the Builder
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