How to Quickly Set Up to Spray Doors | Interior Bedroom Remodel Tips

All right, I'm going to be talking about how I go about spraying, you know, doors. Now, I'm working in a um a remodel upstairs bonus room. I only have one door to spray and I got a couple biffold doors, so I don't have multiple doors to stand up in a room. So, I'm just going to spray it, you know, leaning up against the wall right here. I'm going to talk a little bit about my setup that I spray with interior trim. So, I've got a um Triek T5 hooked up downstairs running at 2200 PSI when I spray trim. I've got a Paint Life hose whip right here, a 3-FFT hose whip hooked up to a Zswive Exit Flex Zswive. So the Z swivel coupled with the um the hose whip just makes everything much more nimble and flexible and a lot less fatigued, you know, on your wrist and um hands and forearms. My gun itself, I got a Triek. I only like two finger guns, so I got a Triek 380 gun right here set up. And on my gun today, I'm going to be using a 310 tip. is an exit flex tip on an exit flex guard, which is a multi-use guard. So, uh, two sides to the guard. It'll house rack X tips, rack five tips, Titan tips, triap tips, Bedford tips. It'll run all your tips. One of the beauties, you know, of Exit Flex products. So, great tips. Uh, multi-use guard. There's my setup that I use to spray doors with. So, here's uh my door right here getting ready to spray and I'm going to get overspray onto the ceilings and um onto the walls. Now, the question is people are going to say, "Well, are you going to see that?" You know, you know, when I get ready to roll the walls, these walls have been painted, you know, a lot of times. And you are not going to see that. You might see something like that, you know, if you had bare drywall and you got overspray on it and then just did one coat of paint over the top of that. But we're using a high-end paint that's going to cover right over the overspray, so it's not going to be an issue. You will not see that. I'll even show you that, you know, once we do these walls that it's not a problem. We've been doing it, you know, for over 20 years, and it never flashes through. You never actually see it. I'm going to just turn this door, flip, and rotate it. And then I'll spray the back side of it. Just be careful uh when I'm rotating. There's a lot of ways you can rotate it. You can grab it here. You can grab it here where the hinges are and spin it around. So, I'm going to spray my sides. When I do a door, I always spray my um edges first. And then, you know, you can there's multiple ways you can spray a door. I can go from side to side or I can go up and down. I always go up and down. I only want to, you know, walk the distance of this door. Say a garage door. I only want to walk distance one time. So, I'm going to spray this door. I'm right-handed, so I typically would start from the right, you know, move to the left and work my way. I can start from the left and move right. It's, you know, what's more convenient, you know, to you. Now, I saw, you know, somebody on social media, you know, spraying, you know, these like your routed edges right here, spraying these first and then going back, spraying the door up and down, which you don't need to do if your gun is like facing, you know, straight at all these edges. And of course, all that stuff's going to get coated 100%. You don't need to do like, you know, um these little shadow boxes first and then spray the whole door. It's a pre- prime door. It's not actually wood, but it is pre-pimed. It's hollow. Um typical uh interior door. Very forgiving because it's wood grain. So, if you actually started and spit onto the door, uh you wouldn't actually see that spit. It's uh very unlikely you would see it. You still want to practice, good practice, and start spraying off your surface and then begin spraying. And I you'll not release the trigger until I'm done with the door. So, it's going to be all the way across. If I release the trigger, it'll spit. If I pull the trigger, it will spit. So, I try to just keep it, you know, as simple as possible. So, uh tops and bottoms of the doors. One of the questions is people are going to ask, you know, do you paint the tops and bottoms of the doors? These are interior doors that are not exposed to moisture. And typically, nobody ever paints the tops and bottoms of the book door. I wouldn't say nobody ever, but uh it's rare that people, especially new construction and painters, uh they'll they typically don't paint the tops and bottoms of these. All right. Now, I'm going to get ready to start spraying. One of the things that I typically have a duster brush and I vacuum the doors off or I'll dust them off, you know, before I spray. You want to have the the floor vacuum too, you know, before you start spraying or you'll just kick dust up, you know, onto the floor itself. So, I start by doing again my edges. Once again, spray the edges. I'm going to start off the door, come down, end off the door, I typically two coat my doors, too. Oh, now I'm going to start top off the door and start top bottom. Overlap 50%. Keep my gun angle straight at the door. Going over the top, coming back down. If you don't go off the door, you'll end up causing a rhyme. Go off the door. Just like that. Now I can flip it. Want to look at it. Make sure you I got a nice even coat across the entire door. Then I can flip it. I just rotate it. Bring it back to where it was. Grab the top. Set it back in place. Just like that. One thing you want to uh think about is are you going to create, you know, a run on your wall if you don't let it dry before you do the other side? I can if I'm concerned about a run on the wall, I can move my door to a new location. As you can see right there, you know, it starts to get pretty heavy. All right, so now I'm going to start the door again, opposite side. So I can start off top, off bottom. Start overlap. Got to bend down a little bit. Keep my gun angle right. So if my doors were prepainted, this one's pre- primed. Right. Two coat pre- primed doors. Now, if they were prepainted, I'd be one with emerald urethane. One coat and I would be done. Now, if you're concerned, you know, about this up here on the top, you know, we are working in here. I can take literally just take a sponge and I could just wipe that off if I was actually concerned about it. But I'm not concerned about it. But, you know, just for instance, if you wanted to get rid of the overspray on the wall, you you could actually just wipe it off. So, there's the door. It's all done. Once again, looking good. Again, I'm just going to look down the door. I'm doing a second coat. So, if there was any light spots, it would actually get hit. If this is one coat done, I'd want to make sure, you know, it's gelled out, you know, all the way across the door. No light spots. If there were light spots and I'm only shooting one coat, I'd reshoot it. But I got all, you know, the angles and everything just by keeping my gun, you know, facing straight at the door the entire time. Once again, gun angle coming down. What I don't want to do is come down, have my gun angle shooting downward. It's shooting downward. This little lip right here would not get painted. So that's why I got to keep come down. I've got to bend over. Don't be lazy. Say this. I don't know if I can angle coming up. This top lip right here, my gun angle is like this. That top lip is not going to get sprayed. So, my gun angle has got to be, you know, straight the entire time when I'm spraying. So, there it is. How to spray a door. or the adhole painter way.