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Spraying High Areas and Ladders

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How To Paint A House With An Airless Paint Sprayer

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When spray painting high sections of a house, especially peaks that require a ladder, maintaining a wet edge to avoid lap marks becomes challenging. A recommended technique for high peaks is 'ladder hopping,' where multiple ladders (3-4 extension ladders) are set up along the wall. One painter then moves quickly from ladder to ladder, spraying continuous wet passes. This method helps prevent paint from drying prematurely and creating lap marks. Ideally, spray high sections when they are in the shade or in the early morning when temperatures are cooler, as this extends the paint's drying time and allows for a smoother application without rushed overlaps.

Goal: Effectively paint elevated siding sections without visible lap marks.

Tools and materials

  • Extension Ladders — Reaching high sections of the house
  • Spray Gun with Extension Graco — Applying paint from an elevated position

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on a ladder to avoid overlap can you avoid it so that's a good question is once this is right here we'll be getting up on a ladder but my ladders I can reach one of the things that's one thing nice about this is I can still reach up here and not house start and stops in the middle of a high peak but when you get on to super high peaks here's what we do and super high peaks where you got to be on a 24 foot ladder and there's no way to have a largest logical start and stuff we'll get three ladders three to four extension ladders lined up and probably shouldn't say this because it's not necessarily approved but we ladder hop and so people you'll just be spraying along and you'll just move from ladder to ladder spraying those high sides if you don't want a ladder hop and move from ladder the ladder up top you just go up and down the ladders and I'll have one guy that's just hopping the ladder so you'll quickly go up and down the ladders and you want it to be shaded if you do it in the Sun you're going to get you know start and stop marks because if the paint's can be drying so fast so right here this site is on the Sun if it's a high side it's not ideal to spray wait till the Sun gets on the other side of the house and then spray this walks in the shade so that if sometimes it's you can't get where it's shaded and another tip is do those sides in the morning when it's really cool but that's you the tip is is they have multiple ladders on that side and have somebody moving those ladders so you can get up and down those ladders quickly so your overlaps stay left because you have you have to have a wet edge in order not to see those lap marks it's a very good question the question on Instagram we got Instagram and Facebook live for my YouTube followers that are what's going to be watching this on YouTube so here again once again if you release your trigger you're going to save on this house itself it's about 1,500 square feet if I'm not releasing my trigger one spray in the entire time I'm probably going to going to say probably bout a half a gallon of pay phone got too hot instagrams down

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