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Master Proper Spraying Technique

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Stopping Airless Sprayer Overspray | Eliminate Paint Over Spray

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When spray painting, particularly on high areas or long runs, use a 'feathering' technique with the spray gun's trigger. Instead of keeping the trigger fully engaged, slightly feather it to control the spray pattern, preventing lap marks and excessive overspray, especially in windy conditions. Keep the gun about 12 inches from the surface and point it directly at the surface to minimize overspray. Practice trigger control to release and pull the trigger at the proper time, applying a light feathering action.

Goal: Apply paint evenly without lap marks or excessive overspray.

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that we've masked. Also, just want another show you another uh tip or technique with your gun. When you're actually, you know, feathering something, if you're working on a high area, you've got to try to um feather it out so you don't have lap marks on your house. And if you want to control the overspray, if it's a windy day or there's a lot of wind, you don't want to feather it out really significantly. So the paint is going away from the house cuz it'll carry up out in the wind. So you got to kind of um you'll feather it with just your trigger and keeping your gun pointing straight at the house and just slightly feather it. You don't want to get it exaggerated where it's coming out too much cuz you're going to get a lot of overspray. It's good to try to feather it but not so significantly. Just make your feathering fairly light. It's just more in in trigger control, releasing and pulling the trigger at the proper time and just doing a slight feather when you're up on high sides or um doing overlaps on a long run that you can't actually walk from um end to end.

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