Skip to main content
Stesso

Overspray Control Techniques

3:34
20:40
10.6K views

At 3:34 in

Stain A Fence FAST. Fence Painting from A to Z.

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

To control overspray when dealing with fences that have gaps between pickets, utilize a cardboard shield. Hold the shield behind the section being sprayed to prevent stain from passing through. Additionally, angle the spray gun downwards at approximately a 45-degree angle. This directs the spray towards the ground and the sides of adjacent pickets, rather than directly through the gaps. Keeping the tip close to the picket also helps minimize overspray. For water-based stains, overspray typically falls quickly to the ground and does not carry far, unlike oil-based stains. Wear a respirator to protect yourself from airborne particles during the spraying process.

Goal: Minimize overspray on fences with gaps and ensure stain stays on target.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Sprayer Titan 440i — Applying the stain
  • Cardboard Shield — Blocking overspray from passing through gaps in the fence
  • Respirator RZ Respirator — Protecting lungs from inhaled spray particles

What they say

Hide

we're going to get going here [Music] a few little tips you know obviously overspray can be an issue you know if you're not spraying properly but what i got these big gaps and what i'm trying to do with these pickets is i got my tip angled so the and keeping the tip close enough to the picket where i'm not getting a lot of over spray going out back um off to the sides of the pickets but i also want to get these edges spray those edges so and then another thing is is you want to have enough stain to be able to back brush that it's wet that you can back brush but then not so much that you're throwing tons of overspray yo back on the other side of your fence so there's just kind of this fine line of controlling overspray and getting this uh proper amount of product on the fence so this is a water-based coating and water-based coatings don't carry like a oil-based coating will pick up in a very very slight breeze and carry for hundreds of yards this stuff is water-based it falls to the ground quickly and so over spray is not an issue if you keep your pressure down use this small enough tip and you can see i'm keeping my gun angled down the side of the fence this way so it's hitting all the other pickets and not just shooting straight out you know in the open area i got all this is common grounds in the other side of me there's nothing to worry about it's a water-based product a warm day it's not going to carry very far so i don't have to you know worry about cars all over the neighborhood if it was an oil-based stain that's a whole different ball game oil-based stain can pick up and even no wind and just carry in the air for a long ways oil-based stains are just i never use them on fences they're too too high risk you know with overspray but you can see how fast this goes with a sprayer how easy it is to get all the edges and you're not creating drips and it's just a very fast process so once again if you don't put enough on you won't have anything to back brush you'll see it it'll be just really dry so you want to make sure you got enough to back brush and i can go back look at it make sure i've got everything hit and then move on to my next section but spraying makes the process extremely fast and i'm just going like i'm taking like three or four pickets at a time i'm doing one edge and the face and then i'm going back and doing the other edge and the other face of the face again and then i'm back brushing it before it completely soaks in and i don't have…

Auto-generated from the video audio.