When to Back Roll and Why? Staining with an Airless Sprayer.

this chrisley idaho painter here on paint life tv today i got a cool project in front of me it's a small little shed we're gonna try to paint this shed in about two hours so i'm gonna give you some tips and tricks painting something like this i'm gonna be using a solid color stain making it look new brand new so stay tuned for this video all right so i'm going to get ready to start so i'm going to be using an airness sprayer you don't have to do an airless rare this is just going to make the process a lot faster it's going to get the paint or paint or stain on a lot quicker so you can back brush it i'm going to be doing three colors i got a little bit of prepping to do i've already power washed the thing the day before it's all dry ready to go but i got some masking of the doorknob and some hinges to do in a little vent and then we're gonna be again spraying and back brushing this is a rough um rough wood like a t-111 sided uh structure so it's very rough so it's extremely important if you're spraying it to back brush it or back roll it and that's going to penetrate a lot better it's going to cause a lot better penetration and adhesion with your stain now a solid colored stain versus a semi-transparent stain a solid colored stain is gonna last significantly longer before it needs to be restained this thing gets a lot of snow built up on it this is up in the mountains and i don't want to have to have come back and stain this thing every two to three years i want to last like five to six years and a solid color stain is gonna give you that durability so we're gonna be using a product from sherwin's called woodscapes and we're using three different colors of solid color stain i'm gonna be just spraying this on low pressure back brushing it with a like a five inch um block staining brush from premiere and i'll be masking with some frog tape so i don't get any bleeding on my hinges and my vent so let's go and get this prepping done so we can start the staining process now there's a few items on this this shed here that we don't want to get stain on and so i'm going to mask off i got blue frog tape on this thing i'm going to shield some things and then i'm going to mask some other things i've got a little door knob right here we want to mask this thing off right here and then we're going to mask off these hinges so we don't get any over spray on these hinges or any stain on the hinges so this frog tape this is going to keep any bleeding from happening it's got a polymer that swells up that stops paint from bleeding underneath it so i'm going to wrap some tape around this i'm also going to i got to leave this doorknob just like this masked off i won't put any paper on that because i got to use it to get open and close the doorknob but i've got some hinges i'm just going to mask off these hinges because i don't want any stain on the hinges so i'll just wrap some tape on these things the best you know i possibly can you can stain the hinges some people just stain right over them i'm trying to see if this tape is going to stick do [Music] i want to verify i got cabin brown is what i'm staining the color with so this is our woodscapes solid color stain and stains are different than paints because stains actually absorb into the wood where a paint creates a film on top of the wood so it's very important on wood surfaces instead of using a paint to use a solid colored stain it's going to perform a lot better raw wood or bare wood like stain a lot better than paint and it also likes stains better than primer and paint you'll put together you're going to get more durability the surface is going to last longer it's actually going to look even more natural if you want it to look natural and not painted a solid color stain is going to give you that look and it's still going to give you the wood grain the texture to the look it's not going to create a thick coating over the top of it eliminating some of that cover my cans back up you want to stir your paints that are boxed up if you don't have a stir stick available you can just take your prime or intake tube just stir it with your intake tube now this is a very small project so you know you could use uh i got a 515 tip i'll probably be using here i am going to be putting bug juice into the paint here and bug juice hit um kills flying and crawling insects that land on the paint and it lasts up to five i think it's five to seven years and we've been using it for a lot of years and it's very very effective and up here carpenter ants are really notorious mosquitoes are really notorious also so we want to put that in there and i want to stir this up so i got to my bug juice in there i do like mechanically stirring it up that way i get it mixed in there really good i like using these hide stir whips from hyde and they mix paint fast and quickly [Music] so using a stir whip like this that just ensures it's the bug juice is just evenly distributed throughout the stain and it also ensures that your box paints are mixed really well now i can quickly clean it just put it in clean water stir it and it's clean again so i did forget one key tool i'm working up in the mountains and it never fails in another job site i left my cardboard shield holder so i am going to improvise and make a cardboard shield holder sometimes you got to just do what you got to do so you're going to see that um here in a minute so now i'm going to be spraying uh this stain on here i don't need to have very much pressure i don't want a whole lot of overspray i'm not trying to create like a fine finish because i'm going to be back brushing and back rolling the whole entire thing so i'm going to be running my pressure i'm going to see how it runs at around 1200 psi at the gun or at the pump and we'll see how that performs i just got a 515 high production titan tip on here i don't need anything special um an heat tip would be you know ideal for controlling overspray i'm gonna see how this tip here works first so that looks pretty good i can have a little bit more pressure i want to make sure i have enough product coming out that i can back brush so that looks pretty good i'm going to be using today just this premiere block stainer right here to do my back brushing and one of the keys about this back brushing you don't you don't want to wait long you want to get onto the back brushing wall it's really saturated and wet still you don't want it to start to dry out so this back brushing process is extremely extremely important i'm going to be using a respirator i'm just getting this thing set up here i think i want this is really really dry extremely porous i think this tip is probably a little bit small so i'm going to grab a heavier tip so i'm going to see what a tip selection i brought with me up here i got a tip saver in here that i store my tips in it's a great little device with storing tips i've got um i have a 619 and that's what i'm thinking i want to use here so we're going to get our 619 put that on there because i just want i'm going to turn the pressure down lower but put out more product and then i also like to have a bucket of stain to keep my brush in that i can use um if we're where i have areas that don't um need to be sprayed or you don't want to spray so you can just hook this thing on to your bucket so just wait for it to stop dripping just snap it back quickly wipe off the edge i'm good to go now i got a bucket of stain that i can work with also i'm going to switch this tip out drop my pressure my pressure is around a thousand psi which is actually not bad an ate tip will give you a nice feathered edge too so feathered edge is a little bit better than a sharper edge that looks way better than that high production tip so now i've got a nice feathered edge here i've got a lot more product coming out to back brush that's looking pretty good that's exactly what i want to see that's looking pretty nice now i want to make sure i'm spraying i've got a back brush in between all these laps and then back brush the face too i've got one more thing because what i would typically do is shield this top and bottom with a cardboard shield so i forgot that one of the most important tools that every painter should have when it comes to spraying and that is a cardboard shield holder so we're going to make one sometimes you just got to do what you got to do but this will make the spraying process a lot easier so i'm going to cut off seal and make it right about here luckily this is a small shed so i don't need very much i got a small extension pole with me these little flaps right here i want these guys to be a little bit stiffer i don't want them to bend so see if we can put some tape on there keep them from bending this is what you call a mini cardboard shield holder but i think this is gonna work now i think i'll just tape it onto my extension hole and being that i got this um frog tape high production tape sticks really well i think it's gonna hold this thing on there pretty good so it looks like it's working just make this a little bit stronger work longer be stronger or be stronger work longer i think is how it goes tighten it up now we have ourselves a cardboard shield holder i think that's going to work so you want to use your good quality stain brush versus a paint brush a stained brush you know because the stains are a lot thinner and a regular paintbrush the stain will have a tendency to drip off of it a lot a lot easier you could use a four inch roller also on this but it's being such a small project you don't need to dirty up you know multiple tools because then i just got to clean up those multiple tools [Music] and i really like um back brushing versus back rolling i like the look of you know the brush look versus the rolled look [Music] all right we got this one side all done now staining you only do one coat of staining you don't want to put multiple coats on there if you put multiple coats you know it could peel so we're going to go around we'll do the front we'll show you what it looks like doing the front now this bottom down here eventually if you don't shield it it's pretty simple you can see there's over spray you know down there i can just take a rake i'm all said and done and i can just you'll rake this along here and you won't even tell there was overspray you know down there so you know being a shed not a house up against somebody's house that's going to be totally fine you know right there with those rocks and stuff that looks totally fine these rz best rest bears i've ever used nice and soft no no sweaty silicone if i was just gonna paint this thing you know without a sprayer what i'd actually do is get a nine inch roller with like a three quarter inch nap or one inch nap and i would roll it with a roller and back brush it with a brush and i think that would take me probably maybe an hour and a half to two hours longer to do the shed to do it that way versus spraying and back brushing you're saving quite a bit of time by using a sprayer to apply versus dipping a nap or dipping a brush continually and applying your product so my trim around the doors is going to be an accent color so i'm not worried about the doors right now i'll i'm gonna hand stain those [Music] let's show you how i can you know quickly get rid of this overspray that i got on here so don't leave it on here for days if you just take a miracle wipe just wiped it right off so you get any overspray a miracle wipe will take it off fast i always keep those things close by and handy another little handy tip i've got my you know masking you know on this vent right here if i wait you know until i'm all done pull it if anything bled onto that vent it's going to be a lot harder to get it off if i pull it off now while the stain is wet i got a miracle wipe and i could just peel it right off just a few little spots where it bled through like and you know being a shed it's not that big of a deal but i can just quickly correct that so you see one of the the benefits to using these hea tips from titan is you use significantly less pressure anywhere from 800 to 1000 psi or 1100 psi and the droplets are larger so they don't carry as far but less pressure nice even fan less overspray and less overspray some if you're concerned about overspray you know titan's got you covered with these tips do let's start off by doing my fascia the green color isle of pine so customer had some leftover from the shed so i'm gonna shake this up there's not much to do with the green just a little bit underneath the front fascia and then the sides and then the door trims gonna be a little bit darker than the existing color which now which is cabin brown this again is once a solid color stain but use a different type of paintbrush too a little bit stiffer and one i can control a little bit more for doing cut-ins because i got to cut in underneath that metal so i want a little bit more control so i'm going to think i'm going to use either a premier montauk or a premier riverdale brush i got to check and see what i got available in my truck so i uh in my truck had the exact brush i wanted a premier montauk so this is a good interior exterior brush that will work really well for this stain and it's all paints and stains brush dupont bristles tinex and oreo and it'll be stiff enough for this stain and it'll clean up really easy at the end of the day also whoa so i don't need a roller i'm just going to be brushing so i don't need a bucket screen in there all either because this is so rough it's not going to be very easy getting it down in the grain so you're just gonna have to keep working it back and forth back and forth to get it down in there you don't want to have too much because you don't want to drip it everywhere that's getting pretty good right there if you can't tell from the video it's this is a really rough cedar rough sawn cedar very similar to all the fencing people's fences in where i live in boise this will make the fascia look a lot thicker right here and just make it look a lot i wouldn't be able to do this just with a regular stain brush you need to you know a brush like this like this montauk to do your cut ends just something that's significantly stiffer something that's gonna give you angled sash is the best too so this is a three inch angled sash brush i'm just working it up underneath there because if you stand back you'll be able to see underneath that fascia don't get too much stain on your brush at once the stain is a lot different than paint it's significantly thinner you see i can work it up underneath and don't panic if you get a little on your your metal but also don't leave it there you want it to look your final project to look feel like a professional did it so you just you could wipe it off right away or come back with a miracle wipe when you're done you know in an hour or so and wipe it off but you know don't ever leave it on there don't just take your time don't get paint on the metal let's make this thing look amazing when we're done do [Music] all right there you have it we've got about three hours time into our shed we've done three colors on it now it looks simply amazing if i wasn't trying to teach and educate shoot a video doing this thing probably could have did it in around two hours if you got any questions or comments about what i did on this shed what i use or the tools i use just leave it down in the comment section below the tools and accessories i use i typically put those down in the video description so you can get more information about those items used in the video here uh once again if you um haven't subscribed to our channel subscribe to our channel hit the notification bell that way you get notified every time we come out with a video and if you like how the shed looks if you like what you saw in the video give us a thumbs up and hopefully we'll see you watching our videos 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