HOW TO FIX A PAINT RUN. Painting hacks repairing drips & runs. Fixing paint sags.

Chris the Idaho painter. In this video, we're going to show you how we deal about a run that you get when you're actually spraying on trim. And if you're spraying trim any or woodwork and you get a run with latex paint, we're going to show you how you deal with that. And we got a run on a column in here we're going to be dealing with and we're going to be wet sanding it. And to get the run out and then we're going to be respraying the column. So, if you get a run and you see or see a run starting, the best thing to do is just let it dry and then wet sand it and bondo and glaze. use Bondo and glazing putty to help get rid of it and then re-shoot the surface. Trying to brush the run out or deal with it while it's wet could actually make it a lot worse because it begins to dry and coagulate really fast and it'll leave brush strokes all over it. So, the best thing to do in dealing with the run, let that run dry and then begin to wet sand the run and respray it. So, we're going to show you that process using a 3M sanding sponge with some water. We're going to wet sand it and use Bondo glazing putty if we need to. So, with dealing with this run on this column, got a couple tools we're going to be using. It's going to be the 3M sanding sponge, either a medium or fine sanding sponge, a bucket with some water to wet our sanding sponge, cuz keeping your sanding sponge wet is what's going to make the sanding process easier, and it's going to make it so the paint doesn't actually when you're sanding it, heat up and gum up and get all gummy. The sanding with wet sanding, it makes it nice and smooth and a lot easier to sand. We're also going to be using some Bondo glazing and spot putty if we need it to uh smooth over with a spackle knife. So, you'll be using a spackle knife if you need the GL Bondo glazing and spot putty after you sand it. You got to determine after you sand it if it completely sands out. Then, of course, we're going to be needing our sprayer to respray it. So, here's a close-up look at this run. I don't know if we can actually get it on video. You can might be able to see it in the proper lighting, but this is the run that we're going to be dealing with right here. I think there you go. You can see it right there. So, after looking at this thing, we're actually going to take a window scraper and the run. There's a pretty heavy line on the run. So, we're going to to make the sanding process a lot easier, we're going to scrape off some of the run with this razor knife and then begin the sanding process. So, I've now scraped off the the biggest part of the the run, um the the ridge, kind of the mountain of it. Now, I'm going to begin sanding it. So, I've just got my 3M sponge with water. Just going to dip my 3M sponge with water, ring it out, and then begin sanding. Make sure you keep this sponge nice and wet. Just going to take a rag once I get it all sanded. Just wipe it off clean. Take a look at it and see how it looks. See if I there's any deep pockets that I or holes that I need to actually bondo. I was using a medium sanding sponge. Got it all wet sanded. I got a fine sanding sponge here. I'm just going to lightly go over it, dry sand it just lightly to smooth out any more of the ridges around here where it took off all the paint. I can still feel just a little bit of the ridges around the edges. So, I'm actually going to use my fine sponge. I'm wetting it and I'm going to wet sand that with a fine 3M sanding sponge. So, now that we got it all sanded off, you can see how it's masked off. You got to uh determine a section where you can mask off a whole section and respray a whole section cuz you can't just spray just the spot you sanded cuz it'll leave a dry feathered edge around that spot where you're spraying. So, we found a nice logical place where we can mask it off. And so, we're going to shoot this whole face of this column. But, I'm going to shoot one shot right across where our touch-up is first. We're going to let that dry and then re-shoot the whole face because the first shot's going to fill in those areas where we actually sanded and hopefully it smooths out those ridges. Ready? First coat on this. And I can actually see my ridge lines still a little bit. So, now I'm actually going to use some Bondo. I've got some Bondo and glazing putty right here. I'm going to smear it on there and then to attempt to hide that the ridge lines and the run a little bit better. And then we're going to sand the bondo and reshoot it. Look at the thin coat of Bondo I put on there. We're going to let that dry about an hour and then we're going to sand it. back here and we're actually got it primed. It's drying and we're going to now get ready to shoot it. You'll see us spraying the thing here pretty soon.