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Select Tips for Interior Painting

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When painting interiors, a slightly broader selection of tips is used. For small trim (3 inches or smaller), use a 310 Fine Finish tip. For larger trim (4-6 inches), use a 510 Fine Finish tip. For interior walls in new construction with bare drywall, a RAC X 1221 tip is recommended for painting walls, ceilings, and closets due to its speed. For repainting existing interior walls (like in rentals), a RAC X 619 tip is preferred to minimize flashing.

Goal: Identify suitable tips for interior painting tasks.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Paint Sprayer GracoApplying paint with the selected tips
  • Graco RAC X 1221 Tip GracoSpraying interior walls, ceilings, and closets in new construction
  • Graco RAC X 310 Fine Finish Tip GracoSpraying small interior trim (3 inches or smaller)
  • Graco RAC X 510 Fine Finish Tip GracoSpraying larger interior trim (4-6 inches)
  • Graco RAC X 619 Tip GracoSpraying existing interior walls for repainting (e.g., in rentals)

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exteriors. When it comes to working on the interior of a house, there's a a little more of a selection that we use, but we're using um for all of our trim. If the trim is small trim, if it's anything like 3 in or smaller, we're typically using a 310 fine finish tip. If we have like 4in trim, 6-in trim, we're typically using a fine finish 510 tip. So, we keep those two tips in stock. We keep a 310 and a 510 in stock on our vehicles for doing interiors. It's very rare on um that we'd ever use a 210, but we do keep 210s in our vehicles. And sometimes on the exterior, if we're doing small spindles, like 2in spindles on deck railing, we'll use a 210 tip. But on the interiors, we're using 310, 510. And when we're spraying the walls, we're typically using, if we're spraying the interior of a house, we're going to be using a bigger tip than we do on the exterior. Exteriors, we use 515s, but on the interiors, we use larger tips because we want more more volume of paint. We want to be able to spray faster. So, I'll talk about the interior wall tips right now. So, you kind of have a couple scenarios when it comes to the interiors. When we're doing new construction, we're trying to just paint and paint fast. And I've got a lot of experience spraying. And I typically use a 1221 tip to spray the whole inside of an interior of a new construction home that's a brand new home that's got bare drywall on it. Use a 1221s to spray the walls, ceilings, and even the closets. If we're spraying uh just a house that's an existing house doing a repaint, like on a rental or something like that, we're typically going to break out a 619 tip to spray the interior of a rental. And we definitely like those bigger tips because um you're not going to get as much flashing on the interiors when you're spraying them if you're using a bigger tip. You can use a lot more tip paint, but you got to um move a lot faster, too. Good job. Oh. Oh, that was hard. I videoed it. Now, some of this the tip sizing when you start to get into those really uh wide tips like the the twelves and the sixes, you've got to have a lot of experience spraying before you actually jump to one of those. It's really best if you don't have a lot of experience. If you're a brand new painter or you're just a do-it-yourselfer on the outside of the house, you should just stick to a 515. If you're on the inside of a house, you should stick to a 517 until you've got a lot more experience and you can handle a wider fan and a more…

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