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Essential PPE for Interior Paint Spraying | Stay Safe with an Airless Sprayer

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This video demonstrates the essential personal protective equipment (PPE) for airless painting, including a Tyvek suit, boot covers, gloves, head sock, and respirator, emphasizing the importance of protection against overspray and paint particles. It then shows the practical application of an airless sprayer for painting large wall and ceiling surfaces and stairwells in a new construction setting, highlighting proper spraying technique.

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All right, I'm going to talk about getting ready to spray new construction and getting suited up PPE, personal protective equipment. I can't stand, you know, just getting caked with overspray, dust, going home feeling like a dust ball. Uh, so I suit up with Tyvex suits. I could care less what brand. Um, Ty DuPont Tyvex seem to be overpriced ripoff, but um, you know, these are what was available to me. They're typically around 12 bucks. I mean, they should be like $4, but I buy um, suits, slip them on. Uh, a lot of times I'll take up the excess by wrapping myself in tape, unless I'm reusing the suit. And new construction, I typically reuse them. Like I've reused the one out here so far four times. It got pretty caked. So I'm swapping out to another one. I buy double X's. I want to be able to whether it's cold and I got a jacket thing. I want to be able to slip over my shoes. I don't want to have to take my shoes off. So I wear a suit and I buy double XX. So, um, you do you and buy whatever size you want, but I'll show you. Like the double X's, the legs are big enough that your feet just slide right through them, which is super nice. So, now I'm protected. I also don't like wasting my uh shoes, boots, you know, with 1,000 lbs of dust and overspray. So, when I'm doing new construction and when I'm doing like fences, like oil-based fences and stuff, getting those non-drying oils on your boots and your your um clothing, it stinks forever. Stinks up your dryer, etc. Your washing machine. So, uh new construction and fences, I boot up. So, now I'm going to slip that on. I always wear gloves. kind of that type of guy that just doesn't like paint on my hands. I know a lot of you can't stand the fact that I wear gloves, but hey, to each his own. So, there's the suit. You can see it's like super baggy. A lot of times I like try to like, you know, get rid of this excess so it doesn't touch your walls as you're going in and out of closets, etc. But once you um tape it off, you know, you have to kind of like just tear it off and it ruins it. Uh the next thing I do wear my respirator is somewhere around here. I always wear a respirator. So doing new construction. I always wear a head sock. And I've gone through like I think three of these so far. They're really cheap, but I'm cheap. And so I take them off and take them home and wash them. That's how cheap I am. So I just slip on a head sock so I don't get tons of overspray all over my [Music] hat. Head sock on. My bald noggin is protected. When I get ready, I'm going to zip it up. If I need a little ventilation, until then, I'll leave it unzipped. I do like them that they just come down, cover everything. The legs slip down, go over my shoes, and you But you can see how yo big it is. If you got to get in and out of closets, you can't see me talk my lips cuz they're covered. Now, you can read my lips. So, there it is. I'm ready to go. I'm going to go get my mask. Going to go in start shooting a bedroom. So, this is what I look like in new construction. Suited up, all protected. When I'm all done spraying, I can just strip this stuff off and I'm all clean, ready to get my truck. I don't like my truck to be loaded up, you know, full of dust that I just brought out of this job site. The booties, I toss them. I usually don't reuse them cuz they'll tear rip on the bottom. But let's go. This is what the Michelin man looks like or a marshmallow man, whatever you want to call them. Last thing, pre filters. I change them every day. I spray cuz if you don't change them, they'll get clogged. You'll start taking in paint around your mask. So, I'm going to get my mask on. Oh, hey. [Music] Heat. [Music]

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