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Controlling Overspray with an Airless Sprayer

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What happens here

In response to a question about overspray on ceilings, Chris explains that his confidence in spraying comes from extensive experience (over 20,000 hours with a spray gun). He highlights that proper technique—including gun angle, correct tip size, and appropriate pressure—is key to controlling overspray. He demonstrates adjusting the gun for precision. If he's not masking a ceiling, he would reduce pressure and use a brand new tip. For spraying trim, he uses a 310 tip, which has a small fan pattern and low volume, minimizing overspray even when pointing upwards. He mentions that any paint reaching the ceiling would likely be 'flash dried' by the time it lands, becoming dry paint dust rather than wet paint.

Goal: Chris details techniques for controlling overspray using an airless sprayer, emphasizing proper gun handling, tip selection, and pressure adjustment to avoid unwanted paint application.

Tools and materials

  • 310 Tip
  • Airless Paint Sprayer

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ceiling so this just goes back to your your your confidence spraying you know I'm highly confident in my spraying abilities I think I've calculated John and I together have over 22,000 you know hours I'm having a spray gun in our hand it's a lot of spray and so I'm very confident of my spray abilities in controlling overspray I've never since day one spray and have I ever feared overspray I've never had an over spray claim filed against us but over sprays is something you have to just learn how to control it learn how to spray properly gun angles I'm never worried about the ceiling but in some of the videos you might see that we might be repainting the ceilings I'm I'm not sure what video we're talking about right now but gun angle proper tip size proper pressure all that goes into controlling the hose right if I'm not masking the ceiling I'm going to turn down my pressure have a brand new tip control on my own especially if I'm spraying in SRAM so I'm spraying a trim I'm only using it 3 10 it doesn't have a big of a fact of curling and give up on the ceiling by the time it actually up to the ceiling it's what we call flash drives and so it actually won't even be wet paint that got on the ceiling so I've never got overspray on a ceiling and you know from spraying right did it want it so so and if you did get it on there you know you're painting the ceiling and it's not an issue or if I did it was a mistake you know we would just read while the ceiling really facets it's very simple and quick Tallulah ceiling alright so we've only got time for one more question so we're running out of time you know we try to limit these things to about a half hour we're gonna do another questions and

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