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Apply the First Fog Coat

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Spraying Ceilings with an Airless sprayer. Painting Ceilings.

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What happens here

Begin applying the first coat of paint, referred to as a 'fog coat.' The presenter demonstrates the technique by spraying in a continuous motion from one end of the ceiling to the other. It is crucial to avoid releasing the sprayer trigger in the middle of the ceiling. If you stop and restart in the middle, it can create 'holidays,' which are noticeable heavy spots or areas of uneven coverage. The goal of this first coat is to apply a light, even layer that dries quickly, not necessarily to achieve full coverage.

Goal: Apply a light and even first coat of paint to the ceiling, preparing it for subsequent coats.

Tools and materials

  • 2-foot Extension — Extending reach
  • 517 Tip — Creating the spray pattern
  • Graco 695 Paint Sprayer Graco — Applying paint
  • Paint — First coat application
  • Respirator — Protecting against inhaling paint fumes
  • Sprayer Gun Graco — Controlling paint release

What they say

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to see any drop loss down. So, That's how I'm going to be spraying the ceiling. And I don't want to release my trigger and um do any start and stops in the middle of the ceiling. You want to go from end to end. Um otherwise if you start release the trigger and go back and forth without walking the distance from end to end, you'll get what we call holidays and that's heavy spots in the ceiling and you'll be able to see those holidays. So we're going to spray it from end to end. You want to make sure you have a good walking path so you can walk from end to end so you don't have to start to stop in the middle of the ceiling. When you get to the some type of light fixtures, you just work on the light fixture. [snorts] Now I [snorts] can continue walking once again. And then once this dries, then we're going to actually do the opposite direction. And before it actually um the paint dries after the second coat, we'll be pulling off the masking.

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