How To Stop Paint Overspray.

the Idaho Painter. In this video, I'm going to talk about and give you tips and tricks on how to control overspray. I did a video here recently in the past on controlling overspray, and it's a pretty popular video, and I'm still getting a lot of questions and comments on how to go about controlling overspray in different situations. So, in this video, I'm going to give you a lot more tips and tricks on controlling overspray. So, stay tuned for this video. Here it comes right now. So, in this video, we're going to be using some uh tools and products to actually help control overspray that I'm going to be showing you. Some of the things you're going to be needing uh to help control the overspray when you're actually painting with an airless sprayer is a hand masker. We use an 3M M3000 hand masker. We use 9in paper with 1 in 2020 tape. You're always going to need drop cloths to help uh control any fallout or overspray. We also use our craft cardboard shield holders and cardboard shields. These are some of the things that we use to help control overspray and we're going to show you how we go about using them so you won't get any paint overspray on cars, fences, uh concrete, or the things you don't want to get it on. So, if you haven't seen my previous video on overspray, I got a the video right up here. If you click on that video, if you haven't seen that one, that one was dedicated to all the haters and people that thought I got overspray in all the vehicles around the neighborhood when I was actually painting houses or painting shutters or doors. So, go out and check that video out. And that gives you a lot of tips and tricks on oversprays. And actually, you actually see my vehicle right next to the houses that we're actually painting and using while we're actually spraying an airless sprayer and not getting any paint on my vehicle. Go check it out right there. All you got to do is click on the video right there. But right back to this video showing you more tips and tricks. So masking is actually a very important part of controlling overspray. And you can see our fence right here. We've masked off this bench with 9-in paper and uh 1 and inch and a half tape. And that's pretty important to keeping the overspray off the fence. If you're using the proper tip and tip size, all you need is 9 in paper. If you're not using the proper tip or a blown out tip, the over you're going to get a lot more overspray. So you'd have to run two rows of paper. But we're typically always using really new tips, not worn out tips, keeping the pressure right on our pump. So, we got our paper right here. Um going to We don't want any overspray on this heat vent right here. So, you can see how we've masked that heat vent. We've also put um paper around our window trim cuz we don't want to get paint on the window trim. That way we can paint this uh pull this paper off really quick and then begin rolling that window trim without having to wait for the body to dry because we've got overspray onto the trim. So here's some of the tips with the masking and we're going to move on to showing you some spraying. Once again, when doing this masking, I use just use my 3M M3000 hand masker with 9-in paper, 1-in tape, and to do the windows also to keep overspray off the glass and the windows, we use 72-in masking film. And all these tools that you're actually seeing me using, the cardboard shield holder, masker, um the gun extension, the tips, all that can be found in my tool store. You can just click on the link right here. going to take you to the Idaho Painter tool store where you can purchase my tools and accessories. So, we got John spraying in the background here and I'm going to talk about a little bit of the um some of the things you need to help control overspray when it um doesn't come to the cardboard shields and holders and stuff like that, but it's your pump and your tips. And if your pump pressure is up to pump pressure is up way too high, then that's going to send out a lot more paint than is needed and you could cause a lot of overspray that way. So, you definitely want to have the right pump pressure. And when we're spraying exteriors, we're always running our pumps at 2200 PSI. Between 2200 and 2500 PSI, another thing is your tips. And if you're using worn out or blown out tips, you're definitely going to have a lot more fallout that's going to get on plants, can get on concrete, stuff like that. So, you definitely want to use uh good quality tips and tips that are new and in in good condition. We typically use a tip uh for about three to four houses and then we get rid of it. That's about the life of a tip. A lot of one of the biggest mistakes is using that tip for too long. If you use that tip for 10 houses or so, tips can be completely blown out. The droplets of paint, the paint's not going to get atomized. You're going to have a lot of droplets coming down, falling on plants and stuff like that, getting a lot of overspray. So, now off to some of the tools we're using. Couple things to note before I start spraying right here. Um, I'm not wearing a respirator cuz obviously I can't talk and describe um and explain to you how I'm going about this process of controlling overspray. But you want to wear a respirator. I use a 3M respirator. The exact one is right here. Show you a picture of that. That's actually available in my tool store also. But I also like wearing gloves. You're seeing these gloves I'm wearing. It's just makes the the gun a lot more comfortable and it doesn't fatigue my hands spraying, you know, all day long wearing a pair of gloves. My hands don't get dirty. And then the guns um when it's really hot outside, if it's 100° outside and the gun is sitting in the sun, you go to pick it up, the gun's extremely hot. and uh just burns your hands. So, I like wearing gloves. And so, now I'm going to get started with showing you how I'm using my craft cardboard shield holder and controlling overspray. So, one of the things I'm using to help control the overspray is a gun extension right here. And then also a Rack X tip. And the Rack X tips item or atomize the paint a lot better and which helps the droplets be smaller. And then it helps um atomize and get on your surface a lot better than cheaper tips. So I'm using Graco Rackex tips. Got my cardboard shield holder right here with my cardboard shields. And one of the areas where you're going to get a lot of overspray if you don't use some type of shield or method to control it is when you're working on corners. And when I'm coming this way, if it's a windy, especially if it's a windy day, you're going to get overspray shooting out here that can get on plants and stuff. I just use my cardboard shield. I'm going to show you how I go about using it. [Music] So, that helps keep overspray from whipping around the corner. Now, I can spray the corner itself, too. Just like that. Another thing is your footings down here. Just using my cardboard shield, you control the overspray so I don't get anything on the concrete or the footings. So, you can see how I just used that cardboard shield to shield the footings right there. You can also just lay cardboard shields all along down there to just give you some added protection. Then use your shield holder. And I like the craft shield holder uh the best over any other shield cuz it actually just moves without having to use any tools or actually having to tighten or loosen a wing nut. So you can just adjust it just however you need it to the angle you need it and um when you're actually spraying. So now I'm going to show you how I go about controlling the overspray that would actually go up in the air when I'm spraying gutters or sophets or fascia. when spraying, you know, gutters, sophets, or fascia, you could um end up getting a lot of overspray carry out um into the wind if you don't control your overspray, you know, spraying up in the air. So, when I'm spraying sophets or fascia, I'm just using my cardboard shield holder where I would actually be shooting the back side of the fascia or the gutters. So, We're not spraying the or painting the gutters on this house. So, I'm controlling the overspray from getting on my gutters just by using my cardboard shield. And when these cardboard shields, you'll start to get too much paint on them. I just set them out, let them dry, and then grab another one. And they're completely reusable. We use them for house after house after house. And eventually, they'll get to a point where there's so much paint on them. We use then they're pretty heavy. We use them as gutter shield gutter shields when we're painting our gutters to keep the overspray off the roof. [Music] So, I do actually have videos that actually show you how to spray gutters and keep the overspray off um the roof and actually how to paint gutters, but just going to show you right here. We just use cardboard shields and we typically don't use our new ones, but we use older ones cuz they got more paint on them and they're a lot heavier. But you just stack them up in your gutters just like that. And that's how you control the overspray from going on your roof.