hey y'all it's another tuesday talks for our RV'er
in the past on these videos we talked about tips and tricks and gadgets and cool little
things for rv life well this is a tip and a trick it is but these are going to be kind of
like reno ideas that are small easy like though i don't i think of that so
we don't have the best before pictures because somebody got a little over anxious she's been
wanting to do this ever since we got this rv so once i got the stuff to do it i just jumped in and
started doing it so we have a couple i said hold on hold on we didn't video anything at all but not
everything so i've seen in a lot of rvs and even in people's homes where they have on their pantry
door a section of it that has like the chalkboard paint so you know you can write welcome or you can
write we need milk or you could write whatever you wanted to once you've got mail and then
you can wipe it off and start over so i have wanted to do that um in the new Fuzion however
well we have a pantry door which that's exciting but it has the different panels
and so it didn't have the big rectangular spot to do that with so we went to demolition
because i was pretty sure the little pretty sure the little strip that created the panel
so pretty sure it means what happens if probably was just glued on so there is a chance that when
you start pulling that off it's not just glued on and you're gonna have to glue it back or
or whatever that might look like but i was lucky and it was just glued on and so i pulled it off
and started painting
so what are you doing now
did we make a mistake well i sanded first which is what i was told you we needed to do but everything
i've done with this paper-ish woodwork i've had to wipe with alcohol even just to get like command
strips to stick so probably should have washed it off real good with alcohol because when i started
putting the paint on it wasn't sticking so get this paint off i'm gonna wipe it with alcohol and
then i'm gonna sand it again but at least i got some sand in these spots where the stickers pulled
off so so here's your tuesday tip first make sure you clean very well before you try to apply the
paint especially since it's not really wood not wood this whole camper's made of wood
it's wood with paper on it to look like this so now i'll wait till tomorrow for all this to
be dry before i can put paint back on it but i'm going to give it a good sanding again now
so you're not waiting for day two
we're gonna give it a whirl it's alcohol it should dry right
i'm just gonna do the center piece where the sticker ripped off and then around the edges and
then tomorrow put a coat on the whole thing just so that hopefully you won't see that lip there
is it sticking yep
we're going to cut it in
and then tomorrow i'll probably cut it in again so the edges get nice and done
and that piece gets nice and done and then we're going to roll the whole thing
now we're going to read directions so see how long it dries at least two coats must be
applied to create a chalkboard finish i think we should have read that before we started
i mean i knew it would take at least two coats because look how light that is and it's black
there
so
i wanted to do this before i did this
but i couldn't find what i needed to do it what are you doing i'm not going to tell you what i'm
doing but we're going to try and see how it works out and if it works as well as i think
it's going to then i'll tell you all about it if it doesn't work we're cutting it out that's right
bonus i found magnetic paint which is a little pricey i'm gonna tell you what that
stuff's pretty day going heavy too and a little quart can is so heavy
but anyway so we got that got it on the underside got a few coats of black chalkboard paint
on our pantry door so now i can write cute little notes or a grocery list or whatever i want to do
you can always put a heart on there for me and i'm so excited about it she just blew that away
i might just write a love you on it and leave it to say that but anyway you can write whatever you
want whatever makes you happy and i think it turned out pretty good we're going to do some
more renaults to it but for now i just wanted to see one of you to see how the first step started
so it wasn't really easy it really was easy my only complaint and i'm pretty sure it's me
not a fan of painters tape and every time i use it it never works the way i think it should and i
always end up having to so what is she doing wrong you guys got to let us know cause she she says i'm
not buying this anymore not mine is more than all of a sudden here we are what painters tape well i
will say and you all can correct me if i'm wrong i had a friend once tell me who paints painters
tape is for people that don't paint all you need is a steady hand and just go down the edge because
at the end of the day it's going to create less of a mess and less things that you have to fix
i'm going back to that mode of thinking because i do better just freehanding it
than i did with the tape so all i did was spend money and spend time
putting the tape on there and then when i pulled it off well you'll see
that did not work well
so how did it do i'm gonna be honest i'm not excited i feel like i could have cut it in by
hand without spending the money or the time or the energy that i spent on tape so i'm gonna finish
getting the tape off and touch up the edges if you know a better way to do it please let me know
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