Painting And Decorating (1945) 

Im also a painter but the resources and information from the tradesman are either low, secret, or just outright ignored. Any way you could share a hint or two sir? It’d be most appreciated.

Have you tried painting your own legs?

​@gabrielmaynard I've a painter with over 40 years experience, best advice I could give you is learn how to spray mate , wish I had years ago😂

I remember watching this video as part of my apprenticeship classroom work around 1989. My instructor was old school. I feel this history is important though for one to feel a little pride in their career.

Probably because of all the lead in the paint back then. Hope you’re alright.

Blows my mind you guys used to brush everything.

Thank you for your service 🪖

Wow you must well over 116yrs old then if you started when you left school.

@@ScratchyBaws he was on double time mate

if they had rollers they would have used them though i still like getting the 7inch brush out sometimes.

Let alone a bridge

No rollers, no caulk

I'm an old dog, painted for a long time then worked in paint stores. Still had a few customers who wouldn't touch a paint roller. We had to stay stocked up on 5 and 6 inch flatting brushes for them. Man, the stuff I've seen and done over the years...painting interiors with all oil-based paints. Woodwork primed with enamel undercoater and sanded four or five times. Then painted, sanded some more and repainted. Slick as glass and beautiful when you're through. I've seen stars many a time from working all closed up in steam heat buildings with no fresh air! Haha! And then having to clean brushes every day in varsol and leave hanging in linseed oil. And you had to save that varsol to let the paint settle out of it so you could use it some more!

Hello! I am currently 16 year olds, in a few years I’ll start painting and Decorating. Is there any advice you would give me about this? Thank you. 😊

@@Gomu_1 just be prepared to listen and learn. All about preparation And of course enjoying it, difficult to put it in a nutshell. Good luck with that I put 3 female Decorators through apprenticeships. 👍👍

@@Gomu_1 yeah don’t bother mate 😂😂😂

@@jordanaustinowen3108 why don't bother? With the right attitude once established you can make over 100k plus a year quite easily

@@sniperreddragon2782 How so? I’m not running my own jobs yet, so I don’t understand fully, but 100k seems very lucrative. I am guessing that you are talking about large exterior work, with little preparation. Slap and dash jobs on the outside of hotels, etc. please elaborate

I think it was a child on a stick

Your reputation is your qualification bits of paper mean nothing. It's the college boys that are being the trade down !!!!

@@Mr71paul71 I agree reputation is everything. I also think shortcuts and no pedigree take more worthy tradespeople lose honest cash. I am college qualified and won't apologise for that.

Commercial painting does not make a real painter

@@jake-ei3ow bruh what?

$250 in 1945 would be around $3700 now

1986 for me . Custom homes .

Starting out with good intentions, once 'the committee' gets involved (a committee of people who talk about it, but don't do it) it all goes wrong.

I've been doing it for 1 year now In east Sussex. I am 22 years old. Never went to college to learn the trade but all been through experience and trial and error.

You are partly right like any trade it's all about skill which you can only get through experience...... But generally you need the theory knowledge behind you as well and that is normally through apprenticeship. And those who say you don't don't have the full set of trade skills to understand that IMO Cheers

Precisely. I think lads see it as an easy trade. Always got slagged for going into it. 3rd gen. now I’m working as a scenic artist on the films because of decorating

Be thankful for the bums, it means that if your any good you can charge far more than the bums

Rollers were banned for a time. At least by the unions in Ireland. Supposedly for taking a mans job. Everything was brushed with a stocker

B-2 we call it

that was a very worn in brush though

You don't need to load the brush very often if you use a big brush

Leaded paint. One dip would go for miles and miles.

I'm sorry to admit that I've cussed many a young'un out when I found him with paint gobbed all the way up to and ON the ferrule and handle!

You can't learn the trade of painting in any school, the trade is to varied and only years of experience can teach it

the problem is the pay is just utter shite trainee estate agents get paid more than fully qualified tradesmen for example. how many people are going to want a hard job with a lot responsibility for the bread line.

Them old boys can cut in without looking

Rollers were banned in Ireland as they were said to be taking a mans job. Contractors use to pay painters who used them under the table to use them as it was much more efficient and saved the boss money. Probably worldwide too. Funny. I’ve had to brush in pebbledash houses and it ain’t fun after a few hours haha!

@@tommylundy2495 I didn't know that, thank you for sharing this story.

Crows nesting

Rollers were not used until the 50s . Unions did not want them at all. Too fast . Lol

And What proper precautions are thoes ? You probably breath in more toxins today then they ever did !

So, you were fine with them using turpentine for cleaning the paint off their hands, but torching off was where you drew the line? Look at some of the things that you do in your career, and then imagine if society looks back, 40, 60, or 80 years, what are you doing today that someone will then make that exact same comment about?

Great replies. As a Decorator of 35 years experience. I have found through research the only reason lead was banned, was because frequencies will not work through lead, your wifi will not work in your house. This is so evil Do not trust anything your government tells you because it will be a lie

@@greatomega9999 I think its more: you shouldn’t just blindly just anyone to do research for you. It’s not really a lie, so much as they’re “burying the truth.” So much easier to bury the truth in the digital age. 🙃

Same here 🤟🏼

You and everybody and their mom. Non skilled trade

the Driza knoblet

Thats because there proper tradesman,

S pick ingrish

No youre a moron

If you're lucky

Why is that 🤔

@@johnwright6706 figure it out

@@mcqcjc8409 since I've only ever heard about double hung windows and never seen them, I have no idea why opening the top would make a person a cretin.

I'm a house painter and I'm genuinely curious is to why you say that. If you open the top of the sash windows to ventilate you can still paint the the bottom half of the window, wait for it to dry and then paint the areas that were obscured during opening. Then repeat the same process for the top half. In fact it's damn near impossible to paint any two part window properly without painting it in sections, which requires opening the windows enough to cover all areas adequately.

@@sellsjeeps Use your brain - u can do it

the Driza whenever I go to give estimates and I know I’m not the only one that is looking at the job, I just simply point to the corners and next to the casings. The client quickly notices the difference between the brush strokes for cutting and the roller stippling. I tell them now that’s an ugly paint job, and then I show them a few pictures of my previous jobs and then they ask how’d I get the stippling to match everywhere, that’s when I show them the back roll system and then they usually get to send the quote sent right away and when can I start. Like you said, today everyone and their uncles are painting but you’ve got to show clients that you are the professional and you have a fail proof system and you always leave the job site cleaner then you found it. Another tip I use is to always let the client know that I wipe every surface that gets painted because nothing sticks to dust. Usually I’m told that I am the first painter they’ve met that back rolls his cutting and dusts off the walls. Remember that you’re the pro and those other guys aren’t.

Lol anybody can just shoot a basketball same has everybody can just grab a brush but can the play as good like Michael jordan .... you get my point

won ton min that’s right.

@Mr.Angry Hey Mr Angry I'm a professional painter here in Maryland I am my own company it's basically me and two guys I've been doing it for 30 years just curious you make 120k how many guys do you have working for you to knock that kind of money out that's a Good Year bro thanks for the reply Ken

@Mr.Angry Hey Mr Angry