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Airless Spraying Tips. Masking around pipes to spray and control overspray.

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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This video provides step-by-step instructions on how to improve paint spraying technique, specifically focusing on masking around complex obstacles like pipes, electrical boxes, and fences, and then applying paint with a sprayer to achieve clean, crisp lines and complete coverage. It emphasizes consistent practice and proper masking for professional results.

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she got some pipes down here we gotta work around let's just give an idea how I do this right behind my pipes around behind the fence and then I'm going to take the tape stick it up underneath the back of the siding tack it up there just like that see the previous paint here previous line I want to make sure I get rid of that brown so I'm going to mask a new line like my lines to be straight or mask it just like this and attack that to my paper that's going to give me a new line on that pipe get a new line on this pipe just like that and we also have our fence the mass there's a little bit of peeling siding water damage here I just want to get take care of that this fence line a lot of times it's hard to get tape to stick to an old fence like this frog tape production tape is about the best you can get for an old fence they go right over the top of the fence I'll mask the other side I don't want to attack I don't want my paper whipping back onto the house I'm just gonna tack it if it doesn't stick grab some high production orange tape to tack it with and uh hard to stick areas like roofs and fences it's usually best to use inch and a half tape so now that's ready to spray we've got some more logical start and stops right here so here's a logical start and stop I'll use the even hold my shield down even though I got paper down there I'll hold my seal down for just added Assurance I'm going to spray Behind These pipes underneath this electrical box foreign different angles around these boxes behind this pipe space now get ready to spray this fence just to help this paper not whip around just gonna spray hold it down just like that one little tip once you've once you get this sprayed in order to keep the paint from bridging on your tape right there it's good to pull that off while it's wet so once I know I've got it all sprayed here a lot of different angles foreign pull that off while flat nice crisp clean line

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