SPRAYING a House Exterior with an Airless Sprayer!

this Chris you had a hope here here on Pete like TV today's day three out here painting this house and I'm gonna talk about what I'm doing today and if you haven't seen the previous videos you can go back check out my previous videos we've got the pressure washing of the house a video we've got preppy in the house video and then day 1 and day 2 painting this house alone it's a very large house probably around 3,500 square feet two-story we've got 2 dormers on both sides that you can't access by just walking on the roof so got some challenges there that we're working on but this job to tackle it by myself one of the things you do always want to do is you just think about layer and your layering your job or sequencing the job properly for a one-man crew or two-man crew and what I did first day I just got here I wanted to tackle something simple and I wanted a tackle something I didn't have to do a lot of prep and masking with and that was the accent color so those Gables were very simple easy to do very first and you got to spray your Gables that accent color so you can mask and do the soffits which are a different color so I tackled the the Gables first I tackled the garage doors and then on the side man door day two I wanted to do some masking and in spraying of the body so I did masked all the windows off and I sprayed all the body on on the lower body and then the big Gables on the sides I got all that done now we're day three I'm working on the hard stuff and I didn't want to tackle the hard stuff day one you all wanted to just get myself into it so I've got the first dormer up there some tools that you're gonna need when painting the house that's gonna make the job faster and more efficient for you and just a pleasant more pleasant process if you've got any type of gutters on your house you need to protect them I'm using a ladder helper a pivot ladder gutter guard right here this thing just stick it up in your gutters you can lean your ladders on on your gutters they're not going Bend and you're not gonna scratch them if you're doing any type of spraying you need to have a cardboard shield holder this is a craft cardboard shield holder this is a must-have tool to help you control overspray [Music] so I want to tell you a little trick here I got all my ladder here have got some ladder boots on it and the ladder boots make it so you know you'll mark up your house or scratch their house freshly painted surface but the ladder boots still will actually leave marks and they'll stick to the paint if you've painted the same day if it's had time to cure out it won't stick to the paint but what I do is take and put plastic over my boots and the plastic won't stick or Mar up your painted surface and you don't want to put the print side up because the print will actually transfer to a freshly painted surface so I just take flip it upside down now I'm gonna just wrap this plastic around my boots and now my boots will not mark up my surface so it doesn't have to be anything pretty I'm just gonna put it on here fold it over on the top like this so now you got a nice clean plastic surface that can lean up against your house and not mark it so I just want to say something about you know what I'm doing right here so we've got to our gable the accent color right here and then the soffits themselves they were previously painted the same color as the sheiks but I really like it if the shakes are a different color the accent color is separated from the soffit the soffit what I'm doing is I'm doing it the body color a lot of times will mask this off and put a nine-inch paper right here mask it and we'll just spray it but I'm working by myself I'm up here if I had a mask and then go down come back up it's multiple trips I can do this just as fast rolling it these edges instead of masking it and then I'll spray sometimes I'll spray the rest of it or I could just roll the entire thing you can see it's fairly fast rolling this and it just you do this do these soffits it's a different color same colors the body it looks a lot nicer just an added touch it definitely takes a lot more work than what the previous painters did but the final product looks a lot nicer we're always after a good-looking end product that's the goal let's see some light spots on the sheiks up here and we've got a touch up too okay I got another tip for you and it's wearing gloves I always talk about wearing gloves and I wear gloves for a lot of reasons but when you're working with extension ladders all day long these climbing ropes that are attached to these extension ladders ratcheting them up and down you can get burns on your hands that's never gonna be an issue and you can grip the Rope a lot in there so the Rope is gonna be sliding in my hand as it's going up and down and it doesn't actually burn or hurt my hand at all having gloves on so if you're painting an exterior it's definitely good idea to wear gloves the the guns spray guns sitting out in the Sun get hot they're easy um so that's you know you're not gonna burn your hands when you're grabbing the gun you know with gloves on also it helps grip the gun but there's just a lot of other reasons at the end of the day you're not gonna have as dirty of hands you know wearing gloves too and I don't like to have to sit there and just scrub all this paint and grime and stuff off my hands at the end of the day [Music] all right so I'm here doing the soffits above the accent color of the shake color so I'm just hand doing them rolling them because it's probably about the same amount of time if I'm working alone so instead of masking it I just want to get up the ladder one time so I'm rolling them just using a four inch roller I'm using a premier woven pro 3/8 inch roller to roll the large parts I'm also using a premier riverdale China X bristle brush this is a 3 inch angled SAS brush and the chinax for exterior paints the best to use on the outside because they clean up quickly at the end of the day paint does not stick to a china expresso brush and they're gonna be outside and you're gonna be using your brush it's hot it's gonna get dry paint on it it's really hard to keep them from getting dry paint on them so those are the tools I'm doing the software I'm just using a 2 inch cutting bucket I like the two or not 2 inch but two gallon cotton bucket with a 1 gallon buckets screen on it [Music] I think I'm almost halfway done with these Gables no no here like I'm working on this ladder I always keep one hand holding on to the ladder and my bucket at the same time the way I know my bucket secure and know I'm secure because I'm holding on to the ladder some people like using buck pale hooks but I'm not one for pale hooks because I don't have the bucket in my hand and I don't have control of it so I kind of like to just myself have the bucket you know in my grasp and the ladder in my grass so just makes me feel safe and secure there's somebody that's kind of afraid of heights makes me feel more comfortable doing it like that another two I want to talk about that I'm using today is the pivot roof boot and I've got 2 dormers up here there's the pitch of the roof you can't walk on it it's so steep these things you can screw them into your roof underneath a shingle and then you can slide a extension ladder down in it you can use other devices like the pivot ladder box in conjunction with these things but it makes accessing the roof safe and so these things are a must-have if you've got to get on a steep roof so you'll probably see me using these things on the 2 dormers up there a couple other things you just want to share when I'm out I'm painting before I start painting I use a product called workmans barrier workmen's friend barrier and this stuff just makes it at the end of the day it makes it easier for me to clean up my hands it actually puts a barrier on your hands that paint and stuff like that doesn't stick to so I usually put it on several times a day and I like soft hands do so there you're going to Drai's non-greasy dries in just a few minutes and then you're off and running also in the Sun another thing I always before I start today use sunblock you're gonna be outside all day long and there's nothing worse than getting absolutely fried the back of your neck this is a product that I've been using skinny's Sun gel so it works really good a little bit goes a long way [Music] so I just want to give you a little advice on ladders and setting your feet on ladders too so we got two um an extension ladder I've got self leveling feet on these ladder on this ladder and absolutely essential when it comes to doing the exterior repaint because you want to have you want to have your ladder setting level and level ground but you also want to have your feet set properly whenever you're in grass you're supposed to have your spikes down in the grass so the ladders now sitting with the rubber down that's how you want your ladder sitting on concrete you would never want that setting like that on grass because the likelihood of the ladder sliding is extremely great the ladder is very safe with the spikes down in dirt so you'll take the ladder itself and I'm holding it up and I flip it forward and now my spikes are down in the dirt and they're set and it's never gonna go anywhere to get the spikes back and the feet flat or you got to do is raise it back up and now the feet are flat you can see on uneven ground this single self level itself on uneven ground it's the word Werner self leveling a ladder feet absolutely amazing but I'm working back here in the grass some get my spikes set there we go now my ladders good and safe [Music] all right we are all done with day three I got what I what I set out to do today and I wanted to get all the soffits above all these high peaks done I wanted to get the dormers done very difficult install ladder jacks all over the roof where I can get on the roof with different means use a six-foot ladder one of the ladder jacks extension ladders so I got everything done and accomplished a little bit sooner than I thought I know somebody might have some questions you know where do you spray versus where do you brush and roll I typically always rush to roll all the trim and the body of the house I spray the body spray on as a means to getting on paint a lot faster it doesn't promote adhesion and penetration like brushing and rolling does so you definitely wanna brush and roll your fascia into trim it's gonna withstand you know the weather it's gonna bond better but the body you want to get the body on quickly it's large expanses but even something like this a metal garage door like this doesn't have to be back rolled because you don't have to promote you and heat on something like that because it's metal so you don't have to back roll that on the siding there are places when I'm spraying I'm gonna be back rolling them before I spray and not half price rate after I sprayed I found a few places that needs to be hit back rolled up on these high areas where I didn't have the latter jacks I didn't do any prepping until I got up there once I got the ladder Jack's set I did my prep work I did my caulking my back rolling and then my spray and so it's all done now and we're gonna come back for day four now the hard part is done all that really difficult ladder work is done we're gonna be doing I'm just brushing and rolling trim the fun and easy stuff that's gonna be day four so stay tuned for day four if you haven't subscribed so you get notified when day 4 comes out hit the subscribe button hit the notification bell that way you get notified by email that's all that notification bill does is it allows you to get notified free simple and easy to do if you got any questions or comments about this video leave them down in the comment section below and the tools and accessories most of them you see in my videos you can find them at our store where you can 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