Painting VINYL Windows. Is it POSSIBLE?

[Music] This is Chris the Idaho Painter here on Paint Life TV. Today we were out at a house here and we are spraying aluminum windows. So, can you spray aluminum windows? So, yes, you can. So, we're here the crew, the small crew. We've got Journeyman John and we got Ryan Pro Pete here today. So, John, can you paint aluminum windows? Well, sure. I think these ones are vinyl, but Oh, these are vinyl. So, we're talking vinyl windows. Why did I say aluminum? But you can do both. You can paint them. We got here's a product right here. We're using a product called multi-surface acrylic right here. Pro industrial. And um this is a great product for that. Do you have to prime when you use that product, John? No. This stuff is supposedly allowed or supposed to stick to like if you take WD40, spray it on a brick wall, and then spray this on top, it will still bond. That's what we've been told. That's straight out of Sher Williams mouth. So there you have it. Um, we're going to go walk over here and we're going to show you what it looks like painting these windows. So, we don't do it very often, but we occasionally get a request to paint windows. And so, we do it. It's not cheap to do, and it's a timeconuming process, but this will be a one-day process. So, here it is. Here's the windows right here. And these are vinyl windows. And we've got one coat sprayed on them already. We masked them off, sprayed on them. Uh, we're using Greg. John's got the Graco Ultra handheld right here, the Ultra Max right here. So, this is what we're spraying them with. So, we're going to show you what it looks like. We've got a 310 FFLP tip on there. We also got some other kind of um interesting projects going on here. Customer has a naughty alder door right here. They wanted to get rid of the knots and they wanted it painted. So, we're uh bondoing using Bondo glazing putty to get rid of the knots. and we're um going to paint it. So, John's got one coat on here. Any um anything you did special to treat these windows, John, other than you got masking with Frog Tape. And why Frog Tape? Uh Frog Tape because obviously we don't want it to bleed through um onto the Stuckco is the house we did some uh some we painted the exterior on a little while ago. So, um, you know, we cleaned them, we wiped them down with the denatured alcohol, um, prior to all of this, and now we're just going for it. Here we go. Let's see you spray one of these windows here. What color were these windows to begin with, John? They were a bronze to begin with. Kind of a bronze. And they faded really, really bad. So, yeah. Unfortunately, the builder, I think, ordered the wrong windows and thought it would be a good idea to paint the outside and then they started having issues and discoloring. So, this color is seal skin though. Yeah, seal skin is the color. It's a nice looking bronze color. So, there's a look at spraying. Now, here's we're doing all the windows around the house today. So, here's some more windows right here up high. Let me give you a look at um it here's another give you a close-up look at this window right here. What we're seeing there. Go ahead and that John [Music] So, we kind of had an unusual situation. Uh, we decided to use a Graco Ultra handheld, which wasn't our choice. But why did we choose to use that? Um, chose to use this. I mean, one, just the portability. We're not going to need that much. We're going to use just over a quart total probably to do all of these windows. Um, two, I was able to knock the pressure down with that fine finish, low pressure enough, and the product in the ultra deep base is thin enough that it's going to gel out without building too many mills of thickness, and so the windows will all still be functional. We wanted to use an HVLP or an air assisted airless, but it wasn't in the cards today, so we made do. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the cards. That's another option. You can spray them with an HVLP. That is, um, what we typically would spray them with. Um, but we had this option of the Graco Ultra handheld to try today. So, here you can take a look. We're doing all these windows all around the house right here. And the product, the multi-surface acrylic product is absolutely amazing. And it's going to hold up really well. It's going to bond really well. The color is going to be very fade resistant. It's going to hold up excellent. So once again, um it's one of those products like John said, it just bonds to just about anything with little prep. There you have it. Well, can you paint aluminum vinyl windows? Yes, you can. We've had success doing it. They've held up really well. See you on our next video. Out. [Music]