How to Prep & Spray a Front Door with an Airless Sprayer | Flawless Finish Step-by-Step

All right. So, I'm going to give you, you know, a few of my tips and recommendations. You know, how to spray a door. This is actually how to spray a door specifically laying down, cuz it's a little bit different spraying a door laying down versus, you know, standing up. This is the man door going out of a garage. It's very critical that you uh prep it properly, dust it properly, mask it properly. I've already painted the opposite side of this door the interior color. It's the color and the paint of the inside of the garage. So, now we're working on the exterior side. And because it's a smooth door, it's a new house, we want to get this side up perfect. We want it to look, you know, super smooth. We don't want to risk any runs, um, spits, etc. Uh, so the way we mask it is we drop nine uh 9 in plastic with um inch tape and tack it down with inch tape just like this. You want your paper, you know, tack down. If it flips it up on the door, you're going to have to immediately wipe that door off, get that paint off, let it dry, and reshoot it and stuff. I say this because it's happened to me multiple times. paper flipping up. Whether it be outside, you know, cuz the wind flipped it up or whether the pressure from the gun flipped it up. It's happened to me multiple times. Bugs have landed on doors like this multiple times. Beetles walked across it. The cotton from cottonwood trees have landed on it and stuff. So, we're inside of a a protected area so I don't have, you know, or less likely to have any of those um elements, you know, once I spray this door. Now, typically when I'm spraying doors, I'm using fine finish tips. On this door, I'm using a Triekc 510. So, I'll either use a 510 or 310. Those are the two tips I use. A 510 is just going to make you be able to paint it in less passes faster. Less passes means less likelihood of spits or things going wrong. So, you want to get your gun set up. Gun setup. I [snorts] like to use extensions a lot of the time because I can reach, but if I can't reach all the way across safely, then, you know, I'll do three cores of the door, walk to the other top side and shoot the door. The longer the extension, the larger the spit you're going to get and more spit. So, I'm not using an extension at all um right now, but your gun, even though there's no extension, you could get a spit. So, I'm going to start spraying off the door. Come all the way off the door on the opposite end and do your passes off the door. Never start on the door. Never stop on the door. When I'm done, I don't release the trigger right here either cuz you can get a spit there. Also on this door, this um the raised sides right here, lowered panel right here. So keep cautious and aware. I don't want to spray against that cuz I won't get it covered. We dusted it off. Dusted off with a duster brush. then wiped it off with a microfiber cloth. If you have to do any sanding, you want to do your sanding of the door, but this is a primed uh PVC door. Bottoms and tops don't need to be uh painted on this style of door. You'll know cuz the door will have a warning thing right here saying, you know, in order for, you know, uh the warranty to uh be in place and not voided, you have to coat the top and bottom of the door. That's not the case with this door. So you can see I just stuffed paper down inside there. So big enough it'll actually stick to cuz we put tape on the opposite side of the door. So no paint could go through the holes either and get overspray. So now the my the question might be I think somebody said something you know one of my social media accounts the other day that overspray is going to kick down and get on the other side of the door with that paper. Um, I can tell you from my experience, never once in my career have I had paint curl around that paper and come up, that 9-in paper, and come up. Gravity wants to take it down and it takes it down. Pump set at 2200 PSI. I'm always going to take a few test sprays and begin spraying. You should uh strain your paints. If you don't strain your paints, you can get spits, clogs, and stuff that can cause issues with spraying the door. This is going to take, you know, multiple passes and spits are just part of the game when it comes to airless spraying. And you just hope it doesn't spit, you know, on the door when you're spraying the front door. It actually spit on the first pass, but it ended up leveling out. So, let's see how it goes. Looks like it's spraying out pretty good.