How To Spray A House With A Paint Sprayer. House Painting Instructions. home improvement painting

I'm going to give you some tips and tricks on how to spray siding on the exterior of your house. And this video is specifically on spraying the siding. If you want to learn how to operate an airless sprayer, you can go check out my video right here. Click on that video and it'll teach you how to operate an airless sprayer. In this video, I'm going to show you how to spray the siding. So, here we go. So, a few of the simple things you're going to need to uh work on spraying the siding of your home is one thing, you're going to need the airless sprayer, but then you're going to need a tip to spray with. and and I got my airless sprayer set up. Got my gun here and I'm going to be spraying the house with a 515 tip. And I typically like a 515 tip to spray the whole exterior. So, I got my gun set up and I like an extension. And using an extension, we keep get extensions in our vans anywhere from 6 in all the way up to 30 in. And the extension is going to make you walk a lot less and make you bend over a lot less. So, get yourself an extension. is going to make your job a lot easier versus just spraying with a gun without an extension. So, I've got a 515 tip. Just going to stick this 515 tip in here. Get it ready to go. I got my sprayer set up over here and it's set up and I typically spray running my sprayer at 2200 PSI. I always like to have a pair of rubber gloves. Just makes it more comfortable. The gun sometimes gets hot in the sun and it's just more comfortable on my hands. I can grip a lot better. I definitely like a two-finger gun, too. I got this thing set up. definitely want to have yourself a cardboard shield and a cardboard shield holder when you're doing your spraying also. And I'll show you that little tool. Any of these tools that I'm using in my video, you can actually go to my tool store on my website, the idaho.com. You can click on that link anytime you see that link. It'll take you to my tool store where you can purchase these tools and accessories that I'm using in my videos. But here we go. I'm going to show you some tips and tricks now on spraying this sighting. So, here's a look at my cardboard shield and cardboard shield holder holder. I just use these cardboard shields and I get them from my local paint store. They cost me 50 cents a cardboard and they actually last quite a long time. So, I'm just going to stick in my cardboard shield holder and if I need need it, I usually use it to shield off the footings or to control overspray off the corner of my houses and stuff. And I do have a video on controlling overspray. You can also go check that out on my channel the idobena.com. Here's a link to my overspray video right there. Also, here we go. I'm going to get ready to start spraying this right now. I do typically use a 3M respirator, but I can explain in my video how I'm going about doing this stuff while I got a respirator on. So, make sure you use a respirator while you're spraying also. And the respirator I use, this is the respirator right there. That's the one I typically use. So, here we go. We've got a scenario right here. Spraying. And I've got a window. I've got corners and I've got a window over here. And when I'm spraying, you always want to find start and stop points that are logical start and stop points. You don't want to uh end in the middle of your sighting if you can't help it. If you're up high on a ladder and stuff and it's really hard to uh get large logical start and stop points, but when when you're down low, my logical start and stop point is going to be the window and this corner board right here and the window and this corner board below the window. I'll be spraying starting here and I'll be stopping there. And what that does is that eliminates your um heavy spots where you're starting and stopping. You'll get those heavy spots and they could run or uh be a shiny spot or they could dry too quickly and crackle. So, uh you want to try to eliminate those heavy spots by getting your logical start and stop points. So, I got a start and stop point right here. So, I'm just going to begin spraying my siding just like that on my start and stop points. And then I'll just work my way down that window. I'll work my way underneath the window. And I typically work from the top of the house to the bottom of the house. I've already sprayed the top up here. I'm going to be working this section down. So, I'm going to continue working right here along this section. And one thing you want to be conscious of is inside you've got little holes where um the lap siding is uh shows holes inside there. You want to make sure if you're using a drastically different color. You got to get the paint shot inside those holes. So I like to get my gun pointed in that direction when I'm finishing that side. And then when I come to this side, I want to finish have my gun point that direction to get inside those holes. So I'm typically spraying just like that. If I can't do that, I'll come back. If I don't get them good enough, I'll just shoot it inside the holes just like that. So, you can shoot it inside these holes just like that. And then I'll start with my large logical starts and stop and begin spraying. Another thing I want to be aware of is my laps. They kind of like roll under and my gun, the angle my gun, you want to be spraying. So it sprays up and underneath those laps. So now I've come to my longer points right here. We're going to be spraying. And then when I get down to the bottom, if I've got footings that I got to shield, that's where I'd use my cardboard shield to shield my footings. And I've got masking down cuz this is a deck. But I typically use my shield and just walk the footings and spray the footings just like that. Now I'm going to work my way all the way down to the bottom. Just like that. And when I'm spraying, I typically want to overlap 50%. So, as I'm going down doing my spray pattern, I'm overlapping 50%. And that will give you the proper mill thickness that you need to get on the house. there's a certain mill thickness you want to get on there to create the warranty that or give you the warranty that the the paint actually manufacturer has on the paint. This actually has a lifetime warranty on the paint. But you won't get that warranty unless you get the proper mill thickness. And that takes a lot of practice. I know how fast I need to travel. If I go too fast, I'm not going to get the proper thickness. If I go too slow, it could get heavy and run. You'll see me just going at a nice slow steady pace and overlapping 50% as I go. You can also see this house, we've actually primed it and back rolled anything that needed to be back rolled or primed prior to spraying. Once I spray my final coat, I don't do any back rolling after I spray the final coat. So, I do all my back rolling first. So now I'm working around this window and I got inside this section here and I'm definitely want to shoot it inside those holes. So I'm just going to work right down that section. And now I'll start working from top to bottom. Just like that. Working my slow, steady speed and my 50% overlap. When when I'm spraying around windows, you definitely want to spray the top of the window trim right there. So, you definitely got to get on a ladder and you got to shoot down at an angle to get that. Hopefully, you can see once I was working my way up top and I've got a a down batting board right here and that was a full length a 16 ft length of siding. And my logical start and stops was from that piece of trim over there to this corner board. And it's really difficult cuz you got to get up on a 24ft ladder and and you can't actually reach all the way from those pieces. So if you can get two two 24 ft ladders, you can walk up one, spray as far as you can down and walk up the other one before it dries and then work it that way. And you're trying to keep a wet edge while you're spraying. But sometimes it's pretty difficult. But you can actually with a 30-in extension, you can reach pretty high. So the bulk of your house, if you got a single story house, it's pretty simple. You got a two-story house, a little bit harder. But the bulk of your house, you can work your logical start and stop points very easily. Couple other simple tips. Drop cloths, if you can see, I got drop cloths sit down here all over the place cuz you if you get any paint dripping from your gun or overspray, the drop cloth is going to protect. I got this is a deck here and it's all covered with drop cloths. We also use a 3M hand masker. I got one right here. And we do all of our masking prior to spraying with a 3M hand masker with 9-in paper. And we also use 72-in masking film. And if you want to see any of my videos on how to actually mask your house, I do got a whole bunch of videos. And one of them right here, how to mask the house prior to painting it. So, I'm going to continue spraying up high here. Now I'm going to begin working down this side. [Music] Just like that. So, I've got this section all sprayed right there. And that's some of the simple tricks. And I'll show you some more here in just a second. I have got some questions from some of my viewers whether we thin out our paints or not when we're painting. And typically interior and exterior, we actually never thin out of our thin out of our paints. We use them straight out of the onegon or 5gallon buckets. I never actually thin my paints. So, I'm going to be going over another scenario painting the siding. Got another house right here. This is a different house, but I've got a scenario here where I've got my start and stop points where they're a longer distance. And I'll show you cuz I can't reach with my gun without walking. So, I'm going to show you what it looks like to actually spray it with uh walking the distance from end to end. And I've got footings right down here also that I'm going to be using my cardboard shield on. And I'll show you what that looks like, too. Now, now I got this footing sprayed. Now I'm going to begin spraying my field right here in to end. So now I got a an outlet right here that's on the outside of the home. And we typically spray those outlets. it's all oxidized. I like to spray them because then it actually protects the outlet and it protects it from the UV rays and it won't oxidize anymore. So, I'll just work around that outlet first. And now I'll begin spraying the field. And my logical start and stops is going to be this piece of trim board and the other piece of trim board. There you go. That's what it looks like to spray a longer distance where you actually have to walk from your logical start and stop points. So that's it for the tips and tricks section. Spraying the exterior.