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How to Get a Flawless Finish Every Time With Airless Sprayers

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This video details a professional painter's step-by-step technique for spray painting full-wrap windows to achieve a smooth finish free of spits and runs. It covers the strategic order of spraying different window components and tips for consistent application.

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fade. All right. So, today I'm going to be talking about how I go about spraying a um full wrap window. So, uh this is a full wrap window right here. And what I mean by that is it's wrapped with wood all the way around. A partial wrap could just be like a seal and then the rest of it is wrapped with drywall. The window itself, you know, the sides of the window uh need to be done. So, I've got my sides. The bottom needs to be, you know, done. If somebody was laying down on the floor looking up and getting paint the bottom, you know, especially if you're going like from black to white, white to black, something that was, you know, um a lot of contrast, you would notice that. The other thing is the tops of the windows. You know, a lot of painters don't paint the tops of the windows. Um, I just get a ladder. I'll hit the top. You're going to have to start somewhere, you know, uh, possibly, you know, on your project that could cause a spit. This, I'm using emerald urethane. It levels out, you know, extremely well. So, one spit, you're not going to see it. But, I'll typically start, you know, right here. A lot of times I'll just start off. So, I'll get my spit on the wall and then I'll come up and start working on my project. I typically, you know, do a full wrap window like this and then I come back. So, I'm doing the wind the sides and the top and I come back and do the sill last cuz I want the paint loaded up on that sill really well. So, I'll do the sill and the bottom. So that's my top. So now I don't need my ladder. Just going to get out of the way. I'm going to do my two my sides just at nice even steady pace. There's my sides. Now I'm going to come my face Now I got to hit the window. I brought my masking out. I come off and I don't have a spit. Bottom face edge hill still again face right there. That's how I shoot a full graph window. Now I'm looking at it and it, you know, if I see anything, this one corner right there is a little bit light cuz it's hard to spam that gap right there. I can hit it. But look at it. Does it look like it's saturated? Does it look like I hit everything? It looks pretty dang good. And now you know once you adopt the system like that you know if you don't get any runs then you'll just replicate that system once again. This is what I came up with you know I tried multiple systems and I would get runs here or runs there. I'm like okay I got to eliminate that run. How do I eliminate it? And eventually this pattern on a full wrap window is how I, you know, learned how to, you know, do a full wrap window with the least amount of overlaps and actually no runs. I believe that's going to hang and um look pretty dang good. So that's a full wrap window sprayed in the Idaho.

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