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Strain the Paint

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Airless Spraying SOLO: Painting a House

What happens here

Place a 5-gallon paint strainer over a clean 5-gallon bucket. Pour the Glidden Premium paint from its original container through the strainer into the clean bucket. The presenter demonstrates his preferred method of using a bag-style strainer that hangs inside the bucket, allowing him to squeeze out all the paint, rather than a top-sitting strainer that takes too long for thick paint to filter through.

Goal: Remove impurities from the paint to prevent sprayer issues.

Tools and materials

  • 5-gallon Paint Bucket — Holding strained paint
  • Paint Bucket Strainer — Filtering impurities from paint

What they say

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strainer i can fill this up grab my hand squeeze all the paint out and i'm ready to go so gonna strain my paints uh get it loaded up i'm gonna be spraying with a dual head tip extension um and you're gonna see two uh tips running at once for speed and then i'll show you another option that you can do with just one tip so let's strain our paints always good practice to strain your paint prior to painting and you typically won't run into a lot of issues that you could run into by not straining them so just gonna put this over the top just gonna dump my paint down inside here so give me a good idea if the issues i was having yesterday um with it spitting where because of the paint being you know really dirty once i strain it we'll look in the strainer see what was what's in there so i'm gonna now i can lift the strainer out and this is where it's a lot faster to strain this versus waiting through for a thick paint like this to go through um a top um strainer that sits in a bucket now i can just grab it just squeeze it unfortunately you do have to get your hands dirty before you even start which is kind of a bummer but it's one of the reasons why we don't like straining our paints now i've got dirty hands that i've got to clean that is pretty dang clean paint i don't see any grit i don't see any chunks of paint or anything at all so i'm not still not sure why i was having a spitting issue but it's not because of it being dirty paint so glidden does have really clean paint i always use a cut lid on top my sprayer that way my

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