Spray Like a Pro: Garage Door Finish That Wows the Neighborhood

All right, here we go. We're going to begin spraying. Now, I can start from the bottom up or I can start from the top down. We got Mr. Bug up here. I'm going to go from bottom. Double up your first pass. It's covered up. I'm looking at it. You want to look at it quickly now cuz it's it's soft and wet. If you had to hit anything now, you could. Right in the middle. As it starts to dry, you can't hit it cuz it will flash in the middle. You would have to reshoot it all again. It looks good. My bottom looks good. Everything looks good. Now, you'll see like, you know, my gun angle. I'm like arcing a little bit. This is all flat. I don't have any ridges and stuff where that ends up becoming an issue. It's all gelled out on the bottom. I didn't have to like really exaggerate my gun angle, you know, right or left, cuz it was actually hitting it and covering it 100%. When I'm spraying, I'm watching the whole time. I'm not listening to a podcast. I'm not listening to music. I'm listening to my sprayer to make sure it's functioning properly. I'm watching the paint go on. I'm watching it gel out. I'm watching to see if it covers um 100%. My overlap was right. But you see, I didn't have to run around the perimeter and hit the perimeter at all on a first pass. It got covered 100%. I don't pull this masking off until this is dry. I I let it let that sit the garage door. I'm going to raise the garage door up right now. I don't raise it up all the way. I raise it up enough where it's not touching, you know, the um the weather strip. So, I'm going to raise that up, set my gun in water, and I'm going to let that set just in case I had to reshoot it again. I'm not going to clean out my pump cuz what happens if I had light spots every now and then, sometimes I've had light spots before, and I've had to reshoot things before. When I raise it up halfway, I pull the masking off the bottom, and then we'll let it dry, lower it back down, and I pull our masking. If you got a garage door with uh glass windows in there, want to make sure you use the proper tape to uh to mask them with. I used Frog Tape blue and Frog Tape green. There's nothing like having to, you know, pull your masking off and you use a production tape and now you got to take a 5 in1 or a window scraper and clean your glass off. I used a Frog Tape production tape on the ground. I got two rows of 9 in paper. People are going to, you know, question. I don't I don't ever put a drop cloth out here beyond that. If you're uncomfortable, run a 4x12, you know, drop cloth runner. But the tip that I use and the pressure that I use and the distance that I keep my gun from the door, I would never get wet overspray beyond these two rows of masking. If you did get wet overspray, that could be really bad. So, if you don't have a lot of um, you know, experience or skills spraying, you know, it's better safe than sorry. Throw a drop cloth down. Put your masking over the top of the drop cloth. Tape it and tack it. Make sure your masking is tacked down good enough. It is windy today. If this isn't tacked down, it can flip up, hit your door. That could be disastrous cuz it's hard to get um get that out. The seams right here, you know, are we going to get, you know, overspray on vehicles inside? I've been doing this for over 25 years. I've never moved a vehicle inside. I've never um masked a vehicle inside cuz you won't get overspray. The metal doors, they actually overlap. And um these are insulated garage doors about that thick. You're never going to get overspray kick into that o that overlap and somehow work its way through there. Weather strip, you don't want to paint the weather strip. So, we always mask off the weather strip on the bottom of the garage door. The weather strips on the sides. this weather strip right here. If you don't paint that, it will oxidize over time. It will dry out, crack, and the customer is going to have to replace it. If you paint it, it the the paint actually acts as a a UV protector, and it keeps the weather strip soft, and you'll never have to replace it. What about behind the weather strips? The last house I painted, um, it was black and the garage doors were white to begin with. You can see those are are a tan. This isn't a huge contrast right here, but because it's black and white, you do see a little thin white um like white line there. So, to resolve that, when the door is up, you can go just hand roll that. Make sure it's 100% dry before you actually lower the door down. And then you'll once you lower it down, you'll just make sure it hasn't um tacked to it cuz that could be disastrous cuz we've actually, you know, had that happen a couple times um where we damaged the garage door, ripped it out of the garage door because we painted the garage door. We left the garage door um down like most of the day and then went and raised it and it and it the paint bridged from the weather strip to the door and um it basically um glued the door closed. So the garage door went to pull the door open, it ripped the garage door opener right out of the door. My setup, I'm always spraying with the whip. So you the whip is going to give you more uh gun control, less fatigue, less elbow fatigue. It's going to make spraying a lot easier. I'm always using an extension. So I don't have to bend over or reach up. It's going to keep you away from the surface from breathing overspray, breathing silica dust, stuff like that. If you don't have a mask on, so I spray all my exterior with a 515 tip. This will give you an amazing finish on a garage door. the best finish of any tips that I've um used now. It's the Exit Flex 515 with an Exit Flex Guard. I highly recommend it if you're doing your doors um garage doors. Got a video on masking windows, batch masking, you on a garage door. You can go check that out after this video. So, there's some tips and tricks how I go about spraying a garage door.