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How Pros Paint Exteriors Flawlessly With an Airless Sprayer

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Tools and materials

  • Cardboard Shield
  • Downspouts
  • Paint Sprayer

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right, I'm going to show you. I'm spraying this side of the sheds. Logical start and stop. Um, I want to go from, you know, top to bottom. I always shield spray the bottom first. I don't want to spray crosswise. I mean, I do see people spraying this way. You want to go, you know, with the grain. So, the grain and the siding runs, you know, vertically. So, I want to spray vertically. I don't want to spray horizontally. Same here. I don't want to spray horizontally, you know, this way. The grain runs vertically, so I'm going to spray up and down. I don't like logical start and stops. I just shoot the bottom, you know, with my shield. So, I go along, do the bottom, and then I fill everything in using my shield, keep everything off the footings. I typically hand do my corners. Um, but then I'll shield use my cardboard shield like this to spray this direction. You definitely always want to remove your down spouts. I'm going to remove my down spouts after I shoot this video.

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