10+ TIPS Painting Doors

this Chrissy Idaho painter here on paint life TV today we've got a couple metal garage doors back here they look like wood but they're metal we're gonna be spraying them with an airless sprayer I'm gonna be using a titan impact 410 a rx Pro gun with a 30-inch gun extension and this is gonna be the whole process of spraying garage doors I'm gonna show you how to do it that way if you're a do-it-yourselfer and had your garage doors damaged had some panels replaced or whatever you just need to repaint your garage doors these are oxidized just worn out need to be repainted we're gonna show you the entire process so stay tuned for this video so I'm getting ready to do the spraying right here I like to put my paint inside of a five-gallon bucket that way it's less likely to tip over so I'm gonna be loading up the sprayer here I'm just gonna take lid off my paint set it inside my five and we'll get this thing loaded up but now if you just have it in a single gallon sitting on the grass I've done that many times in the past and it's actually tipped over so and then I like to have a secondary bucket I'm gonna stick my intake tube right into my paint get a secondary bucket to prime with now I've got multiple doors I'm spraying here so it's gonna take more two gallon of paint so I'm gonna top off my paint with my second gallon and that's acting as boxing the paint to make sure you have color consistency someone be stick it on chosen a tighten high-production 5-15 tip to spray these doors with and that's when we spray exteriors typically the whole exterior is sprayed with a 515 tip and that the the trim around the door it's really narrow and I don't need a 10 inch white van so I'll switch over once I start to do the trim - I think I'm gonna use a two away so I've got on my gun extension and being as short as I am I don't have to you'll reach as much as high or down low with the extension I always spray with us an extension 100% of the time that I spray so I've got this ready to go and we'll get ready to spray it here so now I'm just about ready to spray the door just some added insurance yo really should have a drop cloth down if you haven't had a lot of experience airless spray and once again you'll probably see a lot of my videos where I don't use a drop cloth because you're overspray typically will never well say typically it's never happened to me where I've got it on the concrete with just two rows of paper but so I've got a drop off down now ready to go and I'll do some final taping because I see some spots where the tape pulled away down here from the weatherstrip I don't want to get any paint on these weather strips just check that real quick all right here we go got my respirator always want to wear a respirator when you're spraying indoors or outdoors I do some people might have some questions about my tool bag and what's in the tool bag I'm gonna make a video here coming out shortly of the tool bag I wear why wear it and what I keep inside of it all these sensual tools I spray the door this is how I spray a door I spray it from top to bottom and I spray it from left to right I'm right-handed and I like to go from left to right you can spray the opposite direction if you're left-handed but top the bottom here's the theory behind that if I spray it from top to bottom I only walk this distance one time and I do see people doing it you know side to side like this and how many times you have to walk this door you know to actually get it sprayed when you spray it that method the grain does run this way even though it is a metal door but it does not ever you don't ever see any type of lap marks flashing or anything by going up and down I've been doing it that way for 18 years and it looks great so when you start to add up as a professional painter how many times you'll walk this door if you go from side to side you know from in the end like that over a career like mine 18 years now it's thousands of times you would be walking that versus just you know the one time I'll make one trip on both of these doors and that's it one trip for each door and then the next thing is is the extension I see a lot of guys not using extensions and bending over when you start to add that up over and over over a professional career that lasts your years and years like mine 18 I've got three back surgeries now has nothing to do with painting but to me just that whole bending over and reaching it's just a lot better to have a gun extension they do spit but a spit you're never gonna see it on a grain surface like this on an exterior you typically never have to worry about spits if it was a smooth surface with no grain then it's an issue but another thing controlling spits I have a video on that you can check out controlling Spitz's you never start or stop on or off your surface or on your surface so you want to take and release the trigger when you're off your surface and start it when you're off your surface but here we go we're gonna spray this door and the great thing about spraying is it's one time one coat that's all you have to do because we're gonna be over lapping at 50% so that's looking really good there that is one coat you probably notice I was getting a little bit of fingering or what we call tailing I got a brand new tip I had the pressure ful up I turned it down a little bit these high production tips you're gonna get a little bit of that if this was a smooth surface I'd probably switch over to like a tighten HEA tip which gives a better feathered edge but on a surface like this and and I was staying back far enough that the tailing wasn't leaving heavy marks so you'll never see that on this door right here it looks really good I got a good heavy coat on there and that is good to go and we're gonna move over and get this next door ready I'm gonna raise this up before it dries if this dries you may get some bridging along the weather strip right here and it's happened to me in the past where it's dried then you go to raise the garage door opener without sticking say a five in one tool in there or something and it's it actually willed the garage door will go to pull it up and it'll be stuck to the weather strips and it rip the garage door right out of the back of the door so if you don't raise it up now while it's wet make sure you run a tool in there to break that seal that may have happened when it dries I like to pull off this masking to off the back side while it's still wet too so I don't get any bridging underneath here and the masking just comes off a lot easier while the tape is wet with paint so I'm gonna pull that off we will get some questions about you'll behind the weather strip do you paint behind the weather strip I have had that requested to me to do a few times in the past by customers we've done that and in in extreme heat situations the weather strip will eventually tack to the back of the garage door to the paint and it can stick and once again rip the garage door out and it's happened to me in the past so from personal experience and having to replace your doors we never paint behind the weather strip when the door comes down you cannot see it at all you may get some settling and injustice settling and movement of the door over the you may you'll have to touch it up and it's very very rare that that happens but painting behind the weatherstrip is very very risky to getting what we call paint tack and the weatherstrip gluing itself to the garage door and extreme heat these doors will get up to about a hundred and forty degrees at some times during the summertime so I'm gonna pull this masking off on the other side so it looks like to do you know those two doors took about three quarters of a gallon I had two gallons I only needed three quarters the trim is gonna be a really dark color called black box those doors the color was virtual taupe okay now I got to my sprayer I got a Titan 440 impact setup right here I'm gonna be spraying the trim I kind of just used the same sprayer and swapped out hoses or if I had three quarters of a gallon I could have just probably loaded it up it would've been enough to load up in that sprayer but I had two sprayers sitting here one with a short hose it doesn't take much to load up and I figured I'd just use that and it's got a 25-foot whip hose on it if I'm using a craft cardboard shield holder to shield right here where I can spray the weather strip right here and then I'll spray the rest of that right there so let's show you what it looks like right now now the trims all sprayed on that door now I'm gonna head over we will shoot the trim on this door and then it's gonna be all done we'll pull the masking and we'll see what it looks like so um I guess this will be a little bit of a review on this tip I shut this with a a two away and this is a tri tech tip to eight this little thing hanging on here and when you try to reverse it it's getting in the way that's very annoying don't mean that tag on there it's a 208 but it actually sprays like a 108 which is or I'm only 202 inches so you're typically you'll take your first number times by 2 in before it's throw a 4-inch pattern it's not throwing a 4-inch pattern at all so on the thrown a 2 inch pattern which would be typical of all tips being a wait and in the spray pattern it's supposed to be a fine finish tip it's not given nearly the finish I would expect wouldn't recommend using that tip at all all right so we got the garage doors all sprayed the trim all sprayed just one of the things the differences from you know when we got here I was gonna hand brush and roll the trim and we ended up spraying it because it was metal we didn't realize it until we got here but it's all done ready to go and about these two doors in the trim would typically take me if I wasn't going through this whole video process about two hours to mask and shoot both of these doors and spray that trim there's a final product it looks brand new customers really happy we even sprayed the light for them while the door was dry and so hopefully you guys enjoyed this video if you have give me a thumbs up leave some questions and comments down below if you have any we love to hear what you have to say any tips and tricks you got if you got any questions about this process that I didn't explain in the video I'm more than happy to answer them down below check us out on Instagram check us out on Facebook we got some really cool little short tips and tricks there also and once again hopefully we'll see you on our next video ow [Music]