How to Spray a Fully Wrapped Window with an Airless Sprayer | Pro Tips for Perfect Results

All right. So, today I'm going to be talking about how I go about spraying a um full wrap window. So, this is a full wrap window right here. And what I mean by that is it's wrapped with wood all the way around. A partial wrap could just be like a sill and then the rest of it is wrapped with drywall. But this is a full wrap window. Very common in Idaho. My setup that I'm using, I've got a Paint Life hose whip. I always run a hose whip on every single sprayer that I use. I've got an exit flex Z swivel right here. Just makes maneuvering the gun even a lot easier. Coupled with a hose whip. So, I'm using a Triek sprayer downstairs. I always keep it out of the area where I'm spraying cuz I don't want it being exposed, the motor being exposed to, you know, dust in the air and overspray paint. Try 380 two-finger gun. I only like two-finger guns. And I'm using a um an exit flex 310 tip. My baseboards are um they're only like 3 and 1/2 in baseboards. 3 in or a 310 tip is good enough for that size of baseboard. Typically, like if I'm doing a lot of doors, I'll be using a 510 tip. I've only got a couple doors, you know, in this room. I've got it in exit flex guard right here. And exit flex guard will run rack X and rack 5 tips. So, it has openings on both sides so you can run all your tips. Rack X, Rex 5, Titan, Trite-C, Bedford, Exit, Flex, One Guard will run everything. So, that's my setup. I usually run my PSI around 2200 when I'm spraying interior trim. I'm going to show you my technique when it comes to spraying a full wrap window, how I go about doing that. All right. The way I typically go about doing a full wrap window, I'll just talk about it first and then show you. So, the window itself, you know, the sides of the window, uh, need to be done. So, I got my sides. The bottom needs to be, you know, done. If somebody was laying down on the floor looking up and didn't paint the bottom, especially if you're going like from black to white, white to black, something that was, you know, um, a lot of contrast, you would notice that. The other thing is the tops of the windows. You know, a lot of painters don't paint the tops of the windows. Um, I just get a ladder. I'll hit the top. So, I'm going to hit, you know, my uh sides, my bottom, my top, and then I'll begin working on the window. And I typically will start I use um a gun. And if you don't want spits, don't put an extension on. The longer the extension, the more the spits. But you're going to have to start somewhere, you know, uh possibly, you know, on your project that could cause a spit. This I'm using emerald urethane. It levels out extremely well. So, one spit, you're not going to see it, but I'll typically start, you know, right here. A lot of times I'll just start off and so I'll get my spit on the wall and then I'll come up and start working on my project. I typically, you know, do a full wrap window like this and then I come back. So, I'm doing the w the sides and the top. And I come back and do the sill last cuz I want the paint loaded up on that sill really well. So, I'll do the sill and the bottom. You could, you know, if you were able to take and spray this thing and come all the way across all in one shot. That would be extremely talented but difficult to do. So, I break it up, you know, into two parts. So, and I start on my face. After I do my edges, I do the face, come up, come around, and then I do after I do the face, I do the edge at an angle. So, I hit the edge at an angle, come back, and then I hit this face at an angle, and I do not release my trigger when I'm doing that. Cuz when you release your trigger, you cause a spit. I can already see like my reach is really difficult. That's a really tough reach. I have to be on my toes, you know, to reach that. So, typically if I'm having a problem reach-wise, I'll put on a 6 in gun extension, which will give me better reach. I'm right there at the brink, you know, of my reach, and I think I can do it without putting an extension on. I'll do my first, you know, window and we'll see what happens, you know, from there. So, you once I get that done, then I come back, I'll come across, you know, the face here. I'll hit the edge and then I'll hit my seal twice. So I hit my seal twice cuz it's a horizontal surface and the product will, you know, level out really really well. Now that's, you know, the system that I, you know, adopted for spraying windows cuz, you know, for instance, if I came up, you know, sprayed up and I came across and sprayed across, I have a spot that overlapped twice right there. And those overlaps are um potential run spots. So I'm trying to eliminate overlaps. So the system that I developed, you eventually just have overlaps down here. You don't have overlaps in the corners. But up top, you do have this part that's sticking out. So as I come across, I'm going to have to like, you know, hit that portion cuz that sticks out like pretty pretty far. So that would be were you possibly using you know a 510 10 510 tip. You know it would span that corn that turn when I actually made that turn. But this is this it's been a long time since I shot a you know full wrap window. Uh you know just to be transparent you know right here in this video. So we're going to see you know how this goes. Um the last house I just shot, you know, it was all the windows were just um sill wrapped. So here we go. We're going to, you know, uh shoot with this window. Typically when I'm spraying, I want everything, you know, out of the way and um so I can walk freely, whether I'm doing baseboards, whether I'm spraying ceilings, whatever I'm doing. So here's going to be I'm going to hit my side once again. Hit my sides, hit my top. So top's probably, you know, the first thing to hit. Now, so I want to work fairly quick. If I just hit the top and I come down and I start popping at somebody, you know, the when I shooting down, the mist or overspray that comes down here could start to dry and you could cause like, you know, rough spots. You want this whole thing to be wet with paint and gel out, you know, and not have any flashing or rough spots. So I'm going to work, you know, fairly quickly. So, you know, I I can reach across the entire window from here to here. I can I already see like once again, it might be easier to have a 6-in extension, but here we go. We just do it without cuz some people um haven't seen me, you know, not use an extension um and some people don't have access to them, but I use them quite often. So, here we go. So, that's my top. So, now I don't need my ladder. Just going to get out of the way. Going to do my two my sides. Just a nice even steady pace. There's my sides. Now I'm going to come my face Now I got to hit the window. I brought my masking out. I come off and I don't have a spit. Bottom face edge. Fill still again face right there. That's how I shoot a photograph window. Now I'm looking at it and it, you know, if I see anything, this one corner right there is a little bit light cuz it's hard to spam that gap right there. I can hit it. I look at it. Does it look like it's saturated? Does it look like I hit everything? It looks pretty dang good. Once you adopt a system like that, you know, if you don't get any runs, then you'll just replicate that system. Once again, this is what I came up with. You know, I tried multiple systems and I'd get runs here or runs there. I'm like, okay, I got to eliminate that run. How do I eliminate it? And eventually, this pattern on a full wrap window is how I, you know, learned how to, you know, do a full wrap window with the least amount of overlaps and actually no runs. cuz I believe that's going to hang and um look pretty dang good.