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How To Paint A Door. Paint A Garage Door With An Airless Paint Sprayer

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What happens here

The presenter introduces the project, noting that these garage doors are taller than typical, necessitating an extra-long gun extension (approximately 20 to 24 inches) for comfortable reach. He explains his preferred method of spraying: vertical passes (up and down) rather than horizontal (crossways) to minimize walking distance during application. A crucial technique emphasized is maintaining a 50% overlap on each pass to ensure sufficient paint thickness for a single, complete coat without the need for touch-ups. He prepares to demonstrate this technique.

Goal: Prepare spray gun with appropriate extension and understand basic spraying technique.

Tools and materials

  • Contractor II Spray Gun
  • Graco 695 Sprayer
  • Graco R.A.C. 515 Tip
  • Spray Gun Extension (20-24 inches)

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trainer. In this video, we're going to be showing you how we go about spraying a garage door. And these garage doors are a little bit taller than a typical garage door. So, I'm going to use an extra long gun extension. This gun extension is about a I think it's a 20in extension. Either 20 or 24 in extension. But, you want an extension so you can reach high enough to get the garage doors. And the method we're spraying the garage doors, I like to go up and down versus crossways because going up and down, you walk a lot less. Instead of having to walk, you'll lengthwise back and forth, back and forth. You're only walking the length of the garage door one time. So, I like doing my method up and down. And you want to get it over spray and overlap your spray pattern 50%. So, you actually get it on heavy enough that you just do it one time and one time only. So, we're going to just

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