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Spray Around Windows and High Trim using a Ladder

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

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When spraying around windows and high trim, use a ladder for safe and effective access. Position the ladder to comfortably reach the top of the window trim. Spray downwards at an angle to ensure the top of the trim and any crevices are fully coated. For longer sections or higher areas of the house, you may need to move your ladder multiple times. When doing so, strive to maintain a 'wet edge' – meaning you overlap your current spray pass with a wet, freshly painted section – to avoid visible lines or inconsistencies as the paint dries. A 30-inch spray gun extension can be particularly helpful for reaching higher sections and reducing ladder repositioning, especially on single-story homes.

Goal: Ensure complete and even paint coverage on window trim and high siding sections.

Tools and materials

  • Airless sprayer — Applying paint
  • Ladder — Reaching high areas safely
  • Spray gun extension — Providing extended reach

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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.

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