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Back-Roll and Back-Brush for Even Coverage

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How to stain a fence. Spraying a fence with an airless paint sprayer.

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What happens here

After spraying each full section of the fence (between 4x4 posts), immediately follow up with back-rolling and back-brushing. Use a 4-inch nap roller to back-roll the top horizontal beams of the fence. This ensures the stain is thoroughly worked into the wood grain and prevents any pooling or uneven coverage. For the rest of the fence panels, use the 2.5-inch angled sash brush to back-brush any areas that appear dry, have runs, or need extra attention, such as around the posts or on smooth boards where runs are more likely to occur. Continue this process, spraying a section and then immediately back-rolling and back-brushing, until the entire fence is stained.

Goal: Ensure even stain coverage, prevent runs, and penetrate all areas of the fence.

Tools and materials

  • 2.5-inch Angled Sash Brush — Back-brushing runs, dry spots, and hard-to-reach areas
  • 4-inch Nap Roller — Back-rolling the top of the fence and posts

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And then we're going to do one whole section at a time. Once we complete a a full length section, you got 4x4 post. That is a section. Then we'll just go back. We're going to back roll this top. That way we get it. And then we're going to back roll the top of the fence here, too. And then we also use our brush just in case you go back if there was any runs, any places that need to be back brushed that look really dry. We can actually back brush those spots. Same with this bottom piece down here. We're actually just restaining this fence the same color as it was before. So we want to keep my gun at an angle, minimize the overspray, the gap. These are 4 in nap to back brush the top. A tight space where it's a small alleyway. this out. You don't have as much experience spraying, you can just release the trigger each time. By releasing the trigger, it actually saves product. You don't use as much product. You want to back brush, back roll the post, any places that look dry or look like they This is a smooth board right here. The smooth boards could possibly run, so we back brush them.

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