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Great tip. However, you can save yourself loads of time doing it the way I've been doing it for decades. Just put plenty of white spirits in an old mug, wash your brush in it, wipe it off with paper of a rag, and pour spirits into a jam jar with lid. The jar stores nicely in the mug ready for next time. After a while, the paint drops to the bottom and you can then decant spirits into the mug and clean the next brush. This process can go on and on for years until there is so much old paint in the jar. Time for a fresh jar.
Thank you, from a chick here who used a whole jar of white spirit, made an awful mess , and still a messy brush. Will now head to the shed to reclean my brush 😂
Great video and very informative. I'm aged 73 now and thanks to you Charlie,I'm still learning. If I may compliment your technique. I always take my white spirit cleaned brush to the sink and standing the paint brush on end, bristle pointing up, squirt a small amount of dish/washing up liquid onto the open end of brush, then using a hand, grip the top of the bristles and work them round making the liquid penetrate right down to the captive end. You will be amazed at just how much paint, varnish, whatever the medium gets flushed out. Do this a couple of times rinsing well with hot water. Finally I always rinse the brush in clothes softener. The bristles shine and are much softer next time you use. Thanks once again Charlie
Many thanks for this, Alan. I'm humbled to hear I'm teaching you a thing or two, and am very grateful for the tips. I agree it's well worth giving the brush a final clean with washing up liquid, but hadn't thought of the clothes softener 👍
My dad was a painter and, when painting with oil-based paint, he used to put his brushes in a tin of water (rather than wrapping in cling film) to prevent them drying while we had a tea break. Then you simply shake off any water clinging to the brush and continue painting.
Absolutely marvellous tip mate! I’ve been washing my brushes out wrong for years and wasting so much! You have made my weekend! Keep up the videos they are great 👍
For your audience outside of the British Isles, Wikipedia tells us that: “White spirit (UK) ... or mineral spirits (US, Canada), also known as mineral turpentine (AU/NZ), turpentine substitute, petroleum spirits, solvent naphtha (petroleum), Varsol, Stoddard solvent, or, generically, "paint thinner", is a petroleum-derived clear liquid used as a common organic solvent in painting.”
Great system for paintbrush. I was a little disappointed that you didn't have a super duper filter system for reclaiming the white spirit. But that works quite well enough! Also I wear rubber gloves as white spirit makes my skin rough! The jar with the paint residue can be left inverted on some newspaper and should in its own time fall away, leaving a nearly clean jar.
You absolute STAR. I use so much white spirit cleaning my brushes that I find it more economical to just throw the paintbrush away and buy a new one. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIP.
@@CharlieDIYte Thanks Charlie. The brush is £3.97 but the delivery to where I live is £10.48 so that's a no-no. Will wait till one of my friends comes over to visit and get them to bring a couple. Love your site.
Wow I'm impressed 🙂 I'm a lady aged 76 and been decorating all my life in my homes' I've always been upset contaminating waste water, never again, better late than never. Thank you 😊
You're welcome Pauline. Dave a couple of jam jars with the lids, and have a couple of jars with white spirit in - the second cleaner solution for the final clean. Then when you're finished pour everything into one jar. Screw on the lid and a week later you can pretty much pour the separated white sprit back into the bottle, leaving the residue behind, which you can then just remove with a tissue.
Thank you very much for this video; very helpful. And an amazing tip about saving the white spirit for 5 days and then pouring back. I would never have thought of that. Thank you!
You're welcome Philip. Neither would I, before someone suggested it in the comments section of a previous video. That's why I love these forums, for their ability to share knowledge.
Awesome! I have also found that once the residue from the bottom of the jar dries, it's fairly easy to remove to keep your jars clean for next time! great video, very helpful!
Thank you Charlie, your guidance in this video helped me a lot, now just waiting on those jars of spirit to do their magic and I'll have saved spirit in another 4 days.
Nice one Charlie, what I like about your video's is that you tend to use tools that most of us have. There are many tutorials about DIY and woodworking, were the presenters have hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds of tools and equipment.
Thanks Russell. That's exactly what I'm trying to do - because I don't have a sophisticated workshop like some of those you see on TH-cam. But you can achieve so much without thousands of pounds of tools. Thanks for taking the time to comment - massively appreciated!
I've been recycling my white spirit for a while in just that way. It's saves a fortune and I don't have to mess around going to the trouble of disposing of the chemicals safely. Good tip about the bogroll and wire brush.
Thanks Christopher. Yes and get yourself some of these amzn.to/3iO5r3m as I find them fantastic for scraping off tough to remove paint from the bristles. Just lay the brush on an old piece of wood and scrape the paint downwards off the brush then clean it again in the brush cleaner and it'll look like new 👍🏻
As a newbie painter I found your two jar method works really well. Just a couple of my own twists. I used old newspaper instead of toilet roll coz it's free and premium paraffin (not the nasty heating stuff) 5ltrs cheap from B&Q as I use it to clean motorbike chain. Brushes came up like new, even one I had left from two days intending to throw away.
Used this method when I decorated my house. Loved being about how to recycle the old white spirit. After I had put the old white spirit to separate in a jar the paint solidified not only on the bottom but also around the sides of the jar leaving the white spirit in the middle. Recovered loads but looked weird.
I was shown by a retired painter to clean brushes in a similar fashion, but after the first dip in white spirit (the purpose is to just wet the bristles, not to get all the paint out) and then to work in a few drops of washing up liquid and then rinse water. To keep the shape, I wrap the bristles in a piece of kitchen roll, or even a strip of newspaper and fold over at the tip and leave to dry. I too leave the white spirit to separate and salvage the good stuff.
Thank you that was so useful I've been throwing out paintbrushes each time because I found it so hard to clean them and didn't know what to do with the white spirit! Now I'll buy better quality ones and reuse them.
As a gentleman said in a comment below I've been cleaning brushes wrong for many years and wasting vasts amount of white spirit thank you for a great video
I don’t use oil based paint anymore due to the advancements of water based paint and hybrids but I still use oil based polyurethane. I let the mineral spirits sit after cleaning my brush to separate the polyurethane but it sometimes picks up moisture from the air and hells. I’m going to try filtering it next time. Thanks for the video
Nice tip Charlie. But I use a Brush mate storage box. Not cleaned my brushes at all for two years now and still working perfectly. I've been doing a lot of painting in that time to be fair. But for the occasional paint job your tip is a good one.
Never thought about it. I just assumed once it was used it was done. Shall do this from now on, I have loads of jars with air tight lids that had candles in them.
That's absolutely fantastic! Just realised how much spirit I used unnecessarily. Wondering if there is a similar process to clean the excess down from the brush after using water based paint.
I think with any brush you have to get as much off as possible before you start, and kitchen paper/roll is good for that. Also, I have a set of these for getting dried on paint off brushes amzn.to/3pXLMS5 Give them a good brush working down the brush only from the top, and a few dips in the white spirit and they look as good as new.
I keep my recycled spirit in a separate container and use that for the first couple of washes of the next brush, and do the final cleaning with fresh spirit. I also occasionally use recycled spirit on some rags for lighting bonfires. Way safer than petrol or other low flash point liquids. Buy the best quality brushes you can afford and look after them. Some of my brushes are about 40 years old and still in great condition.
Thanks for sharing. Great work. I guess you could also pour the spirit from time to time into a new container once the paint residue has sunk to the bottom. You probably already do that.
Also in order to reclaim your paint thinner straight away instead of trying to sloose it out after letting it set up. Take a coffee filter and rubber band and with a small diameter tall jar or bar glass, push as much of a droop sag as you can down into the glass with the coffee filter as you can without being too low to not stay clear of the area the liquid will occupy, and wrap the rubber band round the filter onto the glass, then just pour it in. The healthy amount of droop sag will impart more weight into the filter helping it thru. When u get to a point where it stops flowing gently agitate scraoe the filter with a plastic spoon more will continue to flow. When you get to where you've poured the entirety of your thinner into the filter and its stopped flowing, carefully unwrap the rubber band off the material taking the loose end of the filter together in your hand closed where you've now got a bulbous sack of liquid in your hand and slowly twist tighter and tighter forcing the liquid thru the filter into the glass being VERY careful not to let the paper rip. After its all wrung thru and into the glass, pull out 1 more new coffee filter, do it once more, (this time it will flow thru it much much faster) And Walla you've now got pristine liquid ready to be poured back into its original container, successfully executing the 'Breaking Bad' extraction method.
I use alot of polyurethane in flooring and some finish carpentry and furniture finishing. The same trick works for cleaning your polyurethane brushes. Leave out the mineral spirits for a few days, and the polyurethane with turn into a yellow wax looking solid in the jar and you can just pour off the spirits. Some times the spirits remain a little cloudy but still more then clear enough to clean brushes.
Not a lot new there except the idea of using only small amounts of white spirit each cleanse which is worth a try so worth watching your videp, thanks. P.s. A old nail brush can be used instead a wire brush, probably gentler on the bristles.
I remember you. I watched your condensation video a few months back. The no breathing thing I mentioned your comment section didn't work out by the way. Anyways, thanks for the heads up on this. I've just been glossing the skirting boards and I'll definitely give this tip a whirl. Stay awesome my friend.
You are absolutely right about duct tape and verucca removal. It got ride if mine.! It deprives the verucca of oxygen and if applied well also moisture. 😊
Thank you for this! Just looking for white spirit to buy online becuase I only have a little bit left and the prices were ridiculous for something that is normally under £2. Now I don't need to buy it at all. Definitely subscribing :-)
You're welcome. Get some small wire brushes as well, (something like this bit.ly/2F1RIWq) as these are a great way of removing hardened bits of paint from the paint brush. Really will look as good as new, then.
Should have paid more attention to this the first time round. Have a reasonable amount of residue on one of my brushes and I thought I’d cleaned them quite well.
Wait for it to settle, pour the white spirit back into the bottle and leave the sludge to dry out then you can just peel/ scrape it off the bottom of the jar and dispose of in your household waste.
I am not a perfectionist like Mr. Charlie. I don`t care if brush fans after drying or has a bit of residue left. I also am lazy.. 1)Get jar or can, put white spirit in -enough to get paint on brush to thin . 2)Get yourself an old newspaper. 3) Repeatedly wipe brush on it -changing pages until brush is left with minimum residue. 4) Water in new jar or can -leave brush in for a minute. 5) New dry pages of old newspaper -start wiping brush until drier. Job done. Saved loo roll for a bigger job,ahem! The newspaper is not recycled. Thank you for reading .
2020 calling to say that you might as well buy 10 sets of ALL paint brushes instead, since a single loo roll is worth more ;-) Thanks for the video :-)
@@CharlieDIYte You mean what WAS a beautiful country. Trudeau and now Charles are on the Climate Warpath. I'm sure Paint will be outlawed, so I'm getting it done now. LOL I was able to get a little bottle of "oil paint slow dry" solution at the Art Store. It has disappeared from Big Box paint stores shelves. Big Honk Charlie, you are a great teacher!
To stop the residual white spirit diluting the next coat, I get rid of the last traces of white spirit by swishing the whole brush up and down in a sink of diluted washing up liquid, then instead of duct tape use folded kitchen towel held in place by masking tape, works a treat!
Same method as I use, if you leave the white spirit for a couple of weeks the paint forms a hard plug in the bottom of the jaw and the spirit on top is perfectly clean. I have a dirty jar, and a "cleaned" jar. I bought 1 litre of white spirit more than 10 years ago, I still have half of it left, I estimate the wastage in cleaning a brush to be less than 1tsp if you use this method and have a small selection of glass jars on hand for the dirty spirit to settle in. The only paint this didn't work on is the black gloss I use on my front door. It never seems to settle out of the spirit so I just use a disposable brush for that paint now.
Great channel Charlie [new subscriber] i save the waste white spirit in a sealed jar with the paper and use this as a starter for my garden incinerator.
@@CharlieDIYte I tried it and it was the easiest clean up ever, normally I end up with gloss everywhere but this method was excellent. I've left the jar on the side and will reuse the white spirit when it's settled. I'll never clean brushes any other way now. Thanks. 👍
Thank you Jacqueline - I really appreciate that! I've also been doing this incorrectly for years - until very recently, and certainly didn't realise you could recycle the white spirit, until one of my subscribers pointed it out to me when I posted the first video!
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Great tip. However, you can save yourself loads of time doing it the way I've been doing it for decades. Just put plenty of white spirits in an old mug, wash your brush in it, wipe it off with paper of a rag, and pour spirits into a jam jar with lid. The jar stores nicely in the mug ready for next time. After a while, the paint drops to the bottom and you can then decant spirits into the mug and clean the next brush. This process can go on and on for years until there is so much old paint in the jar. Time for a fresh jar.
After pouring from the jar back to the mug why not clean the jar out before pouring it back to store?
Because every few months he finishes a jar of jam and throws it away anyway, so it’s not worth the effort to wash.
Does this method also work with methylated spirit?
@zdringy This maybe good if you are always painting with the same colour or type of paint (eg white, eggshell or gloss or matt)
I use the same method as you, cos this video has too much arsing around
Thank you, from a chick here who used a whole jar of white spirit, made an awful mess , and still a messy brush. Will now head to the shed to reclean my brush 😂
Snap! This video is a revelation. Much appreciated :)
Great video and very informative. I'm aged 73 now and thanks to you Charlie,I'm still learning. If I may compliment your technique. I always take my white spirit cleaned brush to the sink and standing the paint brush on end, bristle pointing up, squirt a small amount of dish/washing up liquid onto the open end of brush, then using a hand, grip the top of the bristles and work them round making the liquid penetrate right down to the captive end. You will be amazed at just how much paint, varnish, whatever the medium gets flushed out. Do this a couple of times rinsing well with hot water. Finally I always rinse the brush in clothes softener. The bristles shine and are much softer next time you use. Thanks once again Charlie
Many thanks for this, Alan. I'm humbled to hear I'm teaching you a thing or two, and am very grateful for the tips. I agree it's well worth giving the brush a final clean with washing up liquid, but hadn't thought of the clothes softener 👍
My dad was a painter and, when painting with oil-based paint, he used to put his brushes in a tin of water (rather than wrapping in cling film) to prevent them drying while we had a tea break. Then you simply shake off any water clinging to the brush and continue painting.
Yes that's a nice tip, Kim. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for tip; also, you have a very pleasant way of keeping the viewer engaged.
Absolutely marvellous tip mate! I’ve been washing my brushes out wrong for years and wasting so much! You have made my weekend! Keep up the videos they are great 👍
John Wareham Thanks John - will do 🙂
For your audience outside of the British Isles, Wikipedia tells us that: “White spirit (UK) ... or mineral spirits (US, Canada), also known as mineral turpentine (AU/NZ), turpentine substitute, petroleum spirits, solvent naphtha (petroleum), Varsol, Stoddard solvent, or, generically, "paint thinner", is a petroleum-derived clear liquid used as a common organic solvent in painting.”
Anonymous98 Thanks mate - that's extremely useful & informative!!
Great vid for cleaning and saving paint brush. Reclaiming the white spirit was gob-smacking-ly brilliant!
Great system for paintbrush. I was a little disappointed that you didn't have a super duper filter system for reclaiming the white spirit. But that works quite well enough! Also I wear rubber gloves as white spirit makes my skin rough! The jar with the paint residue can be left inverted on some newspaper and should in its own time fall away, leaving a nearly clean jar.
A coffee filter paper is a relatively cheap and easy to use filter for this purpose.
You absolute STAR. I use so much white spirit cleaning my brushes that I find it more economical to just throw the paintbrush away and buy a new one. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIP.
You're welcome. Also I really recommend a mini wire brush amzn.to/3SZn01D as it's great at removing the caked on paint. 👊
@@CharlieDIYte Thanks Charlie. The brush is £3.97 but the delivery to where I live is £10.48 so that's a no-no. Will wait till one of my friends comes over to visit and get them to bring a couple. Love your site.
Wow I'm impressed 🙂 I'm a lady aged 76 and been decorating all my life in my homes' I've always been upset contaminating waste water, never again, better late than never. Thank you 😊
You're welcome Pauline. Dave a couple of jam jars with the lids, and have a couple of jars with white spirit in - the second cleaner solution for the final clean. Then when you're finished pour everything into one jar. Screw on the lid and a week later you can pretty much pour the separated white sprit back into the bottle, leaving the residue behind, which you can then just remove with a tissue.
@@CharlieDIYte I'm actually painting doors at the moment I've got my jars ready. This is another step to stop polluting our waters.
Thank you very much for this video; very helpful. And an amazing tip about saving the white spirit for 5 days and then pouring back. I would never have thought of that. Thank you!
You're welcome Philip. Neither would I, before someone suggested it in the comments section of a previous video. That's why I love these forums, for their ability to share knowledge.
Thank you!
Awesome! I have also found that once the residue from the bottom of the jar dries, it's fairly easy to remove to keep your jars clean for next time! great video, very helpful!
Yes indeed - good point. This happens when I forget to get round to decanting what's left. 😉
I normally end up throwing away some good brushes, so today I’m going to give your method a try 😊 thank you
Amazing video. Very helpful and with added bonus of being able to recycle most of the white spirit. Thank you Charlie & Z man.
Thanks James 👍🏻
Thank you Charlie, your guidance in this video helped me a lot, now just waiting on those jars of spirit to do their magic and I'll have saved spirit in another 4 days.
You're very welcome. Yes it's satisfying recycling the stuff!
That bit at the end was like magic. It would really make you think how not to waste.
I agree. 👍
Going to try that. If it filters the black paint I will be really impressed. Cleaned some paint brushes yesterday.🤞
Well did it work for you?
Nice one Charlie, what I like about your video's is that you tend to use tools that most of us have. There are many tutorials about DIY and woodworking, were the presenters have hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds of tools and equipment.
Thanks Russell. That's exactly what I'm trying to do - because I don't have a sophisticated workshop like some of those you see on TH-cam. But you can achieve so much without thousands of pounds of tools. Thanks for taking the time to comment - massively appreciated!
Fantastic information. The letting it settle my grandfather showed me that eons ago. Thanks for the vid!
So pleased I found your channel . This is a fab tutorial on brush cleaning .
I've been recycling my white spirit for a while in just that way. It's saves a fortune and I don't have to mess around going to the trouble of disposing of the chemicals safely.
Good tip about the bogroll and wire brush.
Good work. Yes a small set of wire brushes like this amzn.to/43BbBJV are brilliant for cleaning off the caked on paint.
Terrific video! I have been just throwing away used brushes. Now I know what to do. Thanks!
Thanks Christopher. Yes and get yourself some of these amzn.to/3iO5r3m as I find them fantastic for scraping off tough to remove paint from the bristles. Just lay the brush on an old piece of wood and scrape the paint downwards off the brush then clean it again in the brush cleaner and it'll look like new 👍🏻
@@CharlieDIYte Good idea! I'll just have to remember not to brush my teeth with them!
Great thanks. Love the tip about recycling the white spirit.
You're welcome. Thanks for the comment👍🏻
As a newbie painter I found your two jar method works really well. Just a couple of my own twists. I used old newspaper instead of toilet roll coz it's free and premium paraffin (not the nasty heating stuff) 5ltrs cheap from B&Q as I use it to clean motorbike chain. Brushes came up like new, even one I had left from two days intending to throw away.
Thanks Chris. Great tip. You can also get a small wire brush set, which is great for getting stubborn hardened paint off the bristles.
Brilliant !!! And the tip at the end on how to re-use the white spirit, priceless. Many thanks for making the video.
Used this method when I decorated my house. Loved being about how to recycle the old white spirit.
After I had put the old white spirit to separate in a jar the paint solidified not only on the bottom but also around the sides of the jar leaving the white spirit in the middle. Recovered loads but looked weird.
Great, Charlie. I envy your thoroughness.
Thanks James. It's also worth getting one of those small wire brush sets to remove the stubborn hardened paint amzn.to/3UL07QH
Nice one Charlie - saving brushes AND the planet! I'll never have to buy white spirit ever again!
Dave Roxburgh Thanks Dave - you'll certainly get through a lot less of it!!
Absolelty one of the most helpful you tube videos I’ve ever seen thank you so much.
that last tip was great, thanks to you and your viewer :D
I was shown by a retired painter to clean brushes in a similar fashion, but after the first dip in white spirit (the purpose is to just wet the bristles, not to get all the paint out) and then to work in a few drops of washing up liquid and then rinse water. To keep the shape, I wrap the bristles in a piece of kitchen roll, or even a strip of newspaper and fold over at the tip and leave to dry. I too leave the white spirit to separate and salvage the good stuff.
Never thought about recycling the spirits..clever that..class video.😊
Thanks 👊
Thanks, that's great for the environment too
Thank you that was so useful I've been throwing out paintbrushes each time because I found it so hard to clean them and didn't know what to do with the white spirit! Now I'll buy better quality ones and reuse them.
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful. 👍
Great video .Also I
I love to use brush cleaner as it seems to get more out of my brushes and seems less tacky than white spirit.
That's possibly right, depending on its formulation. 👊
Great tip to recycle thinner, the only reason I’ve been throwing oil brushes away, the cost vs the thinner!
Brilliant tip . I will be doing it this week .
Thank you .
As a gentleman said in a comment below I've been cleaning brushes wrong for many years and wasting vasts amount of white spirit thank you for a great video
You're welcome Alan. Thanks for the comment.
Great video. Thank you for your time and effort to do that. Greetings from Croatia.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching in Croatia. Always humbled by my international viewers 👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks a lot for your great tips. Wasted so much brushes 😪 before. I like you recycling tips as well. Many thanks again
That was amazing ! Thank you so much for your time and effort.
You're welcome. Thanks for the comment 👍
I don’t use oil based paint anymore due to the advancements of water based paint and hybrids but I still use oil based polyurethane. I let the mineral spirits sit after cleaning my brush to separate the polyurethane but it sometimes picks up moisture from the air and hells. I’m going to try filtering it next time. Thanks for the video
Maybe leave it in a jar with the lid closed to stop moisture getting to it. 👊
Thank you very much Mick i seldom using paint brush so don't know how to clean it,
Nice tip Charlie. But I use a Brush mate storage box. Not cleaned my brushes at all for two years now and still working perfectly. I've been doing a lot of painting in that time to be fair. But for the occasional paint job your tip is a good one.
This was very helpful thank you . Fabulous tip at end for saving money
Thanks Sarah 👍
great tip on the white spirit
Thanks 👍
Great tips for me as a beginner, thanks
What a genius little tip! Thanks 😃
Never thought about it. I just assumed once it was used it was done. Shall do this from now on, I have loads of jars with air tight lids that had candles in them.
That's absolutely fantastic! Just realised how much spirit I used unnecessarily. Wondering if there is a similar process to clean the excess down from the brush after using water based paint.
I think with any brush you have to get as much off as possible before you start, and kitchen paper/roll is good for that. Also, I have a set of these for getting dried on paint off brushes amzn.to/3pXLMS5 Give them a good brush working down the brush only from the top, and a few dips in the white spirit and they look as good as new.
Magic! I love this method. Totally cool! Thanks so much for these top tips!
Glad you liked it! Saves buying all that white spirit and definitely makes you more tempted to clean your brushes rather than throw them away. 👍
thanks mate. i will try it tomorrow.
wasted a lot of white spirit today.
Once again - very useful. Thank you.
Nice one , been doing it wrong for years , thank you
Thanks 👍
I keep my recycled spirit in a separate container and use that for the first couple of washes of the next brush, and do the final cleaning with fresh spirit.
I also occasionally use recycled spirit on some rags for lighting bonfires. Way safer than petrol or other low flash point liquids.
Buy the best quality brushes you can afford and look after them. Some of my brushes are about 40 years old and still in great condition.
Thanks for sharing. Great work. I guess you could also pour the spirit from time to time into a new container once the paint residue has sunk to the bottom. You probably already do that.
Brilliant tip. Thanks to you - and Z Man!
Cheers Nigel. Yes, good old Z Man. 👍🏻
Also in order to reclaim your paint thinner straight away instead of trying to sloose it out after letting it set up. Take a coffee filter and rubber band and with a small diameter tall jar or bar glass, push as much of a droop sag as you can down into the glass with the coffee filter as you can without being too low to not stay clear of the area the liquid will occupy, and wrap the rubber band round the filter onto the glass, then just pour it in. The healthy amount of droop sag will impart more weight into the filter helping it thru. When u get to a point where it stops flowing gently agitate scraoe the filter with a plastic spoon more will continue to flow. When you get to where you've poured the entirety of your thinner into the filter and its stopped flowing, carefully unwrap the rubber band off the material taking the loose end of the filter together in your hand closed where you've now got a bulbous sack of liquid in your hand and slowly twist tighter and tighter forcing the liquid thru the filter into the glass being VERY careful not to let the paper rip. After its all wrung thru and into the glass, pull out 1 more new coffee filter, do it once more, (this time it will flow thru it much much faster) And Walla you've now got pristine liquid ready to be poured back into its original container, successfully executing the 'Breaking Bad' extraction method.
Nice! Thanks for that David. 👌👏
I use alot of polyurethane in flooring and some finish carpentry and furniture finishing. The same trick works for cleaning your polyurethane brushes. Leave out the mineral spirits for a few days, and the polyurethane with turn into a yellow wax looking solid in the jar and you can just pour off the spirits. Some times the spirits remain a little cloudy but still more then clear enough to clean brushes.
Thanks for that Jason. A similar thing happens with solvent based decking oil, as I found after doing my recent video 👍🏻
What should you do with the jar that has the gunk in?
Not a lot new there except the idea of using only small amounts of white spirit each cleanse which is worth a try so worth watching your videp, thanks. P.s. A old nail brush can be used instead a wire brush, probably gentler on the bristles.
Thanks 👊
Thank you for sharing.
I use a cooking syringe to draw the clear mineral spirits that has separated from the used paint.
Good thinking 👍
Cracking video mate!!!!! Many thanks for the info
Thanks, glad you found it useful 👊
That Is Amazing Thanks Good Tip
Thanks 👍
I remember you. I watched your condensation video a few months back. The no breathing thing I mentioned your comment section didn't work out by the way. Anyways, thanks for the heads up on this. I've just been glossing the skirting boards and I'll definitely give this tip a whirl. Stay awesome my friend.
Thanks James. Which was the no breathing comment?
Awesome information many thanks 👍
Thanks for this tip. I’ve used it & it’s brilliant .
Subscribed. Thanks for all your trial and error.
Thanks for subscribing, massively appreciated!
Really helpful and informative! Thank you very much.
absolutely awesome, thank you so much for making this video.
You're very welcome, mate & risks for the comment 👍🏻
I knew that trick!! .I think you are wonderful mostly for a perfectionist like "moi" Thanks!
Nathalie Valade Thanks Nathalie!
You are absolutely right about duct tape and verucca removal. It got ride if mine.! It deprives the verucca of oxygen and if applied well also moisture. 😊
Thank you for this! Just looking for white spirit to buy online becuase I only have a little bit left and the prices were ridiculous for something that is normally under £2. Now I don't need to buy it at all. Definitely subscribing :-)
Thank you! I thought I ruined my paintbrush, but with a little bit of white spirit it looks good as new
You're welcome. Get some small wire brushes as well, (something like this bit.ly/2F1RIWq) as these are a great way of removing hardened bits of paint from the paint brush. Really will look as good as new, then.
Should have paid more attention to this the first time round. Have a reasonable amount of residue on one of my brushes and I thought I’d cleaned them quite well.
This was very helpful! Please share how to handle and dispose of the waste by product (paint sludge, TP with the excess paint, etc..)
Wait for it to settle, pour the white spirit back into the bottle and leave the sludge to dry out then you can just peel/ scrape it off the bottom of the jar and dispose of in your household waste.
You've made my day 😄 off to clean my brushes👏
Did it work?
Been doing that for years. You can use more white spirirt in the glass to clean the brushes, you still get most of it back. It also works for turps.
Thanks Frank 👍
Very useful. Many thanks!
Thanks Barry 👍
Thank you so much for the marvellous tips!
You're very welcome. Thanks for taking the time to comment 👍🏻
Love it! Just about to start painting my room. Excited about the clean up now 😊
That's great. Thanks so much for getting in touch, Paula 👍
You can use an old pair of the mrs tights (or yours 😂) as a filter when pouring the used white spirit.
This is a eye opener for years I just threw the spirts out no more !
Cheers 👊
Very good.......fan of oil based paints.......I always waste so much cleaner......thanks...
I am not a perfectionist like Mr. Charlie.
I don`t care if brush fans after drying or has a bit of
residue left. I also am lazy..
1)Get jar or can, put white spirit in -enough to get paint on brush to thin .
2)Get yourself an old newspaper.
3) Repeatedly wipe brush on it -changing pages until brush is left with minimum residue.
4) Water in new jar or can -leave brush in for a minute.
5) New dry pages of old newspaper -start wiping brush until drier. Job done.
Saved loo roll for a bigger job,ahem! The newspaper is not recycled. Thank you for reading .
Very useful tutorial !
Thank you
2020 calling to say that you might as well buy 10 sets of ALL paint brushes instead, since a single loo roll is worth more ;-) Thanks for the video :-)
Thanks Charlie! Big Honk from Canada!
Ah, great to hear from you buddy. Humbled you've found my vid in your beautiful country. 👊
@@CharlieDIYte You mean what WAS a beautiful country. Trudeau and now Charles are on the Climate Warpath.
I'm sure Paint will be outlawed, so I'm getting it done now.
LOL I was able to get a little bottle of "oil paint slow dry" solution at the Art Store.
It has disappeared from Big Box paint stores shelves.
Big Honk Charlie, you are a great teacher!
Another good tip is get a turkey baster and siphon the clear liquid out. Works great too!
To stop the residual white spirit diluting the next coat, I get rid of the last traces of white spirit by swishing the whole brush up and down in a sink of diluted washing up liquid, then instead of duct tape use folded kitchen towel held in place by masking tape, works a treat!
Same method as I use, if you leave the white spirit for a couple of weeks the paint forms a hard plug in the bottom of the jaw and the spirit on top is perfectly clean. I have a dirty jar, and a "cleaned" jar. I bought 1 litre of white spirit more than 10 years ago, I still have half of it left, I estimate the wastage in cleaning a brush to be less than 1tsp if you use this method and have a small selection of glass jars on hand for the dirty spirit to settle in.
The only paint this didn't work on is the black gloss I use on my front door. It never seems to settle out of the spirit so I just use a disposable brush for that paint now.
Wow, thanks for this !
Good presentation great tips and something new learned as well
Cliff Letts Thanks Cliff - much appreciated!
Great channel Charlie [new subscriber] i save the waste white spirit in a sealed jar with the paper and use this as a starter for my garden incinerator.
Colin Cooper Nice idea Colin, and massive thanks for subscribing!
Fumes from this probably not good for air pollution
Excellent video.
Thanks
For a quicker way to clean the white spirit I use coffee filters in a funnel. Works great.
I'm definitely giving this method ago as I'm currently glossing 8 door frames 😬
You should definitely. Put the used white spirit in a jar with a lid, and just pour it back into the bottle when the paint residue has settled 👍
@@CharlieDIYte I tried it and it was the easiest clean up ever, normally I end up with gloss everywhere but this method was excellent. I've left the jar on the side and will reuse the white spirit when it's settled. I'll never clean brushes any other way now. Thanks. 👍
Such a helpful video, I've been doing this incorrectly for years. Very pleasant manner, what a gentleman!
Thank you Jacqueline - I really appreciate that! I've also been doing this incorrectly for years - until very recently, and certainly didn't realise you could recycle the white spirit, until one of my subscribers pointed it out to me when I posted the first video!
Fantastic trick again, thanks!👍