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Managing Overlap and Coverage

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How To Paint A House With An Airless Paint Sprayer

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To achieve a consistent and uniform finish, ensure that each spray pass overlaps the previous one by approximately 50%. This technique, known as 'wet edge' spraying, prevents streaking and ensures full coverage. The speed at which you move the spray gun is critical: too fast and you'll have thin coverage, too slow and you'll get runs. Watch the paint as it hits the siding; with experience, you can learn to judge the correct speed to apply enough paint without over-saturating the surface.

Goal: Apply an even coat of paint with consistent overlap.

Tools and materials

  • Spray Gun Graco — Applying paint

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and then the other tip is as you're spraying just overlap 50% as you're going up so you get really good coverage so here we go trying to keep it up at an angle so they've had a spit and that's kind of common she does not spit and just to clear that spit out I just take reverse my tip that's one thing nice about these tips is are reversible I can reverse it clear it and then it'll start spraying again so let's start again so you can see that now a tip is when I'm spraying it's like how fast you go when you're spraying and watching that paint come out I'm watching it hit the siding and and with enough experience you can see it hitting and you can see kind of about how much is getting on there and I want to just slow down enough that I'm getting enough pain it's better to get too much paint than not enough paint so you definitely want to go slow enough that you get enough paint

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