How to Spray Window Sills Like Glass | No Drips, No Runs! Airless Sprayer Tips

All right. In this video, I'm going to show you how I go about spraying window sills to get a perfect finish, that glassy smooth top. I'm going to kind of talk about them. They've got skirting underneath them. So, part of my spray technique, you know, I've got to hit the ends. I've got to hit the bottom. Some people don't, you know, spray the bottoms, but if somebody was laying on the floor and saw that and it was bare wood, you want to have that painted. I want to have the bottom painted here. And then, of course, I want, you know, the sill itself painted. And when somebody runs their hand over it, we want that to be super glassy smooth. One of the cool things about the sills is they are horizontal flat and I can just load tons of paint on there and not worry about it running cuz I want this thing to be have a lot of paint on it and I want to feel like glass. And so my technique is going to include, you know, starting by spraying the sides. Then I'm going to do the the bottom and um shoot at a 45° angle to hit the face and the underneath right here. And then I'm going to shoot my sill itself. Now like a door jam, like a baseboards, you know, things need to be replicatable every single time so you don't get runs. If you have overlapping spots, if I come back and come back here, overlapping spots going to be right here, you could get a run. If I come here and come across here, you could end up having overlapping spots someplace in this corner and getting runs on here. And so I developed a technique doing window sills that was replicatable without runs. And you'll see exactly how I do it here. Now, if you need a mask cuz I'm going to be shooting at an angle. This is going to come up. It'll hit this. If you're concerned about it, you'll hitting your glass. You want to put another row of paper on there. Here's my setup. A Tri-C um gun. Two-finger gun. Big fan of two-finger guns. Two-finger guns only. This green device, you might ask what it is. It's a fan pivot. rotates 90° if you need to rotate, you know, your um tip for some reason. Handy device I always spray trim with a 6-in extension, you know, for multiple reasons. I'm using um it gives me more reach. I don't have to bend down. I don't have to reach as high. I'm not tall enough to shoot a door jam the top face, you know, without having an extension. I use a Triek a Tri-C tip, a 510 tip. Best fine finish tips right now at the making of this video on the market. I'm using a 510 and not anything smaller because I want to span this large gap of this window sill in a single pass. I'm going to do multiple passes, but I want it to span that entire gap. Hose whip. Use a hose whip so you can, you know, manipulate your gun around, you know, easily and not be fighting the gun. So, I'm going to just do uh each window sill one at a time and working my way across. You know, I'm right-handed, so typically most things I do, I work from right to left. If you're left-handed, you know, working from left to right is also fine, too. Now, when it comes to doing the window sills and doing this flat part, what I teach is you never start on and off the the start on or end on the surface. So, if I start on, I'm going to probably get a spit right on that window sill. It might gel out and level out, but it might not. Same with the faces. cuz I don't want to start and stop on the face. I've got a face right here. So, I got to be careful and just kind of in the middle right there. Work with that. But the window sill, I would come off the window sill and work it my passes just like that. So, this is what it looks like. Wear a mask. I'm not wearing a mask cuz I'm going to be talking, you know, while I'm showing you how I go about doing this. Looks like this. The end. I'mma hit the end. Hit the end. I'm going hit bottom. Bottom. Come across just like that. Now my sill's ready to be done. I'm going to come across a sill. Pass. Pass. Just like that. Now, one thing you want to do, and I got talking a little bit. I didn't check to make sure I was dusted. I always wipe my window sills with my hands. Make sure there's nothing on there. I didn't do that on the first one, so I might pay the price. Um, but it looks like it's pretty good. So, I'm going to hit end, end, bottom, bottom, face. Now, I'm going to come across front back the whole thing. So, I'm trying to hit the front. I'm trying to hit like kind of the front of it here, the back, and then the whole thing. So, here it is again. side side. And when I'm releasing the trigger, I'm releasing it up here. So, it's spitting there. So, bottom bottom face come across just like that. So, I did the same thing every time. And so I'm I hit the bottom. Hit the bottom. Came across the face. And then when I hit this again, I'm kind of angling the gun. It's not 100% flat. The first time it's kind of hitting this front flat part first and then I'm coming across the whole thing and then trying to hit more towards the back so I don't get it, you know, light in the back. So sometimes the 5- in tip, you know, it's feathering out, but I'm kind of like moving, you know, back and forth on those three passes. A little bit sided towards spraying the front, little bit sided to the middle, little bit sided to the back. There it is. Window sill. Got one more over here that doesn't have a skirt. We'll show you um underneath it. So here's another window sill. A little bit different. Doesn't have a skirt on the bottom. This is kitchen countertops. There's probably backsplash. this one, you know, I want uh probably is going to be getting water, you know, on here quite a bit. And one of the things uh this might be a good option to put like an epoxy on something like that if the um builder was paying for that or might be something you might suggest. But I don't necessarily have to do Well, I'm not sure because I don't know what's going underneath here and how far it's going to come up here. But we probably want to paint the bottom of this. And so I'm going to do the ends, the bottom, and the top. So the end, the end, I'm going shoot bottom. I'm going do two passes on the bottom. Come across the front part of the sill, middle part of the sill, back of the sill, end off. Just like that. This is first coat. Everything uh gets sanded again. So, I I've done a video on um doing window sills, door jambs, baseboards. First coat, we go back with 1/2-in ultra fine echoilk sponges on our Echoan 3x4 sander. Hit it really quick to knock anything down that might be on there, dust or anything rough. And then we'll shoot our second coat and it'll be done and look like