Been painting for 20 years and you're right about keeping your brushes clean and the sink as well. Wipe it while it's wet and comes right off. Let it dry and it's a real struggle. I've give my guys one chance when it comes to a customers sink and if they don't care and leave one a mess a second time their fired. As far as brushes go if they don't want clean them correctly then they can but me new ones. If they don't want to do that their fired. It may seem harsh but it's the only way I can show them how important it is by showing them how important it is to me. Haven't had to change crews in 5 years and I'm booked 6 months in advance because of the little things. I do clean my brushes a little different but I totally agree with your premise on cleaning them often. I never soak them tho. Thanks for your videos because you do exactly the same work as I do, rock and paint, and I share them with my guys to show them a young guy who has pride and a work ethic. Thanks!
Hey brother.. when you soak your brushes it swells the wood up and over time loosens the ferrule and you start losing bristles. Granted it takes awhile.. but it will still shorten the life of your brush. Just FYI.
That ain't no brush comb, that's a painter's 3 way tool. I have reservations about the use of the wire brush. You said your paint brushes only lasted about 6 months. Well I have no problem believing that and I was waiting for you to pick up the bottle of dish soap sitting right there, I am , I don't know.
The Dawn figures prominently in the video but you're just using water? I watched it twice and you say nothing about any kind of soap. I've watched several videos at this point and tried everything I'm supposed to do and still by usage 2-3 my brushes are in pretty bad shape.
As a painter I wish Purdy and Corona brushes would come standard with plastic brush covers instead of those flimsy cardboard covers that get wet and break all the time. I mean their brushes are not cheap and for the price they really ought to have a more durable storing case.
As a fellow professional craftsman, I really appreciate your ethic and commitment, not just to the quality of the final product, but your consideration of the whole process, the tools, the client and the world at large. Bravo, sir, bravo!
Great video! I am NOT a painter but a real painter showed me how to clean my brushes with a wire brush a couple years ago, and I am still using those same two paint brushes 2 years later. Only thing I do differently is lay them on a board when I comb them out so I can apply some pressure.
I’ve been a painter going on 10 years and I totally agree with your process. Purdy’s are the best option, even if they are a bit expensive, if you keep them nice and clean they last for quite a while. I also bought these plastic brush holders that you can keep your brush in overnight or even for days, they have a foam seal around the handle and work pretty well.
Thank you, as always. Every step of my project, youre there with a well done video on how to do it the proper way. A good Canadian who takes pride in his work.
Here's another couple of tips. Always have kitchen towel, cling film, your own dish-soap, and green scourers in your kit. When you've washed a brush, sure, don't put it back in cardboard, but do wrap it in kitchen towel. This will have it keep perfect shape as it dries. (Granted, this is more help with old-fashioned bristle brushes.) If you're pausing, for lunch say, and don't want to waste time cleaning the brush, wrap it in cling-film! (aka Saran wrap). It won't dry out and you can carry right on. I'd be fussy, and clean out paint kettles at the end of the day, and the green scourer was useful for that. But just as important, I'd make sure the customer saw me scouring their sink after washing a brush in it, and there'd be plenty of (my own) dish-washing) liquid involved. I'd regularly get a comment that their sink was cleaner after I'd been washing a brush in it than they'd seen it for ages! Lastly, buy a brush/roller sleeve spinner, and use it to spin the brush dry inside a 5-gallon pail - it'll be almost bone dry when you do. It the bristles spread out when you do this, wrap it in kitchen-towel and leave it to dry fully, it'll come right back.
your video is really helpful especially I'm just starting my own in this industry and locate in Van as well, I learn most of the stuff hard way as been site helper/cleaner for 2 years and now u just give out all this tips for free!!!!!!!!!!
I like the brush/roller spinners to get the water out of a good brush. Wash it as shown- then spin it out into an empty drywall bucket (still go outside though - just in case) ... then I wrap the now-barely-damp bristles in a dry paper towel to return their shape to factory. Been using some of the same Purdy brushes for 10+ years.
At the end of cleaning, to remove the excess water, I curl up my toes and bang the thin side of the brush against my shoe a few times. Then, with the brush handle between both hands, I rub my hands back and forth quickly. Kinda like the motion of using a stick to make a fire. Holding the brush against a solid surface while wire brushing helps with removing the dried stuff.
