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Builders’ Tip: Reduce Cleanup With This Paintbrush Garage
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Real painters clean their brushes every day.
I am not a real painter, but I often seal end-grain cuts and back-prime siding and exterior trim with an oil-based primer.
To save cleanup time at the end of the day, I keep my brush in a “brush garage” rig shown in the accompanying drawing.
- My brush garage consists of a one-gallon paint pail, a 1x4 crossbar nailed to a doughnut-shaped plywood base and a five-gallon drywall bucket with a lid.
- To use it, I put several inches of paint thinner in the paint pail and suspend the brush from the nail hanger so that the bristles are immersed in the thinner.
- Then I cover the drywall bucket to keep the thinner from evaporating.
This setup allows me to go weeks between cleaning my brush.
Also, at the end of a long day of running siding and trim, it sure is nice not to have to deal with paint-thinner fumes and drips.
— John Carroll, Durham, N.C.
Tips & Techniques provided by Fine Homebuilding.
©2005 The Taunton Press
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