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

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What happens here

Before applying paint to the door, always strain your paint through a paint strainer. This critical step removes any lumps, debris, or dried paint particles that could clog the spray gun or cause undesirable spits in your finish. Once the paint is strained and the gun is set up, perform several test sprays off the door onto a scrap surface. This allows you to verify the spray pattern, adjust pressure if necessary, and clear any initial spits or clogs that might occur at the beginning of spraying. Even without an extension, a gun can still produce spits initially, so testing is crucial. The speaker shows an instance where a previous front door experienced a spit on the first pass, but the paint leveled out. However, it's best to avoid this entirely with test sprays.

Goal: Ensure paint is free of debris and the spray gun is functioning correctly before painting the door.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Strainer — Filtering impurities from the paint
  • Paint — The coating applied to the door
  • Scrap Surface — For performing test sprays
  • Spray Gun TriTech 380 gun — Applying paint

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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

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