Manage Ground Cover and Ladders

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Airless Spraying The Right Way? Painting with an airless sprayer

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Regularly relocate drop cloths or other ground coverings from underneath plants, especially during warm weather. Drop cloths can absorb heat and cause plants to overheat and die if left in place for extended periods. When working on high sides of a structure, use ladders safely and efficiently. If possible, plan your work to spray sections that are in the shade. This slows down the drying time of the paint, allowing for a longer 'wet edge' which helps in blending subsequent passes and prevents premature drying that can lead to flashing or lap marks. Avoid spraying high sides in direct sunlight without proper techniques to maintain a wet edge.

Goal: Periodically move drop cloths from plants and strategically use ladders for high areas, especially on shaded sides.

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Drop Cloth
Ladder

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I'll move these off these plants right here move them to the other plants you don't want to leave them on your plants very long because the drop cloths do get hot and it can kill plants so I'm just going to work up a ladder right here we got high sides sometimes yo you just can't have a logical start and stop point if a high side like this you're going to be working on ladders it's a good idea to wait till this is the shade side so your paint doesn't dry as fast so you're not going to get flashing and lap marks it's always good to have ladder at hand see my nice steady speed nice overlap I can hit my soffit while I'm at it just like that see my logical starting to stop point now is behind this plant once I get over the top of the plant now this is where I'm going to want to walk my distance and so planted it out so my logical start and stop is this window one of the major benefits to a gun extension you can see my reach and I can reach through these plants logical start and stop Mouse starts at this window now it's going to change logical start and stop here between these two windows it's going to change right to there now we've got a fence we need to mask off right here so now we have another situation right here and I um see people quite often without gun extensions or even with gun extensions and they'll spray back and forth and get right to here and then move over and spray right to here and you're going to have all these overlapping points where the pain is going to be heavier and I like to call those um shiners and over time you'll see those so we have a logical

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