Master Airless Spraying. Tips To Become A Master Level Sprayer.

[Music] so we're out here today um I knew Idaho State Observatory the brutal sand dunes so we're going to be sealing some block today so it's a pretty cool project we've got um really cool we're going to show you the Dome that rotates and opens they're gonna be mounting a state-of-the-art telescope in this um in this building so we're going to be sealing some block today uh inside and outside to make this thing last they wanted something on the outside of this block to seal it to really waterproof it and then protect it from Salt and chemicals so any F4 essence or salts up wanted to protect this Natural Stone so it looks natural like this we don't want any Sheen to it but I'm going to be using a silicone-based Emulsion coating to put on here to waterproof it and it's also going to give it some UV protection but it's not going to change the color of itself and being silicone based one thing you need to know is once you put it on there you can't top coat it with anything if you want use a solid color stain down the road you're not going to be able to do it because it is silicone-based and nothing sticks to silicone one of the big challenges was the product that we wanted like a silicone polymer or silicone Emulsion there's not a lot of them available right now and a lot of challenges trying to get I'm sure winds didn't have you know the ones we wanted you're going to use xs5000 was one of the ones we could use couldn't get it anywhere but Valspar did have a product a concrete sealer that's a silicone based product so infused silicone so we're gonna be using that today and I'm just spraying it just reuse it a tri-tech keyboard sprayer and just we sprayed it on all you're going to do is spray it on and that's it we're going to take it all the way down to the puddings because we want a weatherproof waterproof the same all the way down to the ground so I'm just going to be using just a fine finish tip low pressure don't need to atomize the product just need to get it on saturate the block so so I don't want to be out of my advising this product not going to be running a high pressure super low pressure I'm just going to be using an hea 311 tip to spray this product on I don't want a lot of overspray it's not windy out here it gets super windy out here at the Bruno sand dunes but today it's calm morning so far the h8 tips supposed to run around 800 to 1100 PSI mask off the metal door jamb over here because we can't get any of this product on that metal door jamb because the metal door jambs could be painted if you get some silicone on a door jambs would be a nightmare to try to paint it we're also going to be masking off from the metal work up here we don't want anything on that either [Music] so I added uh two extensions together so I don't actually have to spray on a ladder so I can get screws right along spraying no ladder needed so I'm just adding an angle adapter to the end of Titan angle adapter right here that way when I'm reaching up I'm not shooting up and I'll be spraying more flat so I'm going to angle it down a little bit so it'll be spraying flat once we get this set up the roll there we go so now I'm not gonna be kicking over spray up and having it swirl out so it's a tight angle adapter that's different than a Graco clean shot which actually eliminates spits that's just an adapter to give you different angles [Music] so I'm just working my way down you'll hear this Cruise right along and does it's not going super fast because I'm using a 311 tip and one thing is is um you know Adam's masking up ahead of me and if I use the bigger tip um I'd catch up to them too fast and then have to wait but also overspray it's not windy out here it's typically really windy out here but I wouldn't want this silicone just flying everywhere and I'm using a smaller tip low pressure helps control over spray foreign [Music] all the way around we're gonna start pulling masking pretty soon I got a little bit of sealer left and it does snow out here a little bit so I'm just gonna go and the contractor wanted you know this Edge sealed really good a second coat put on it they've got some type of sealer when they set the block down in between the block of the concrete but you know on the outside we're just going to seal that by spraying it one last time you know two blocks up