Painting - Brush v Sparying
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Domestic type painting
Will have quite a bit of painting to do in the near future. Rather that gloss painting things like skirting, banisters etc what are your thoughts on spray painting.
Was thinking hiring a air compressor, buy a sprayer and as long as the prep work has been done well then the finish should look ok.
What do you reckon?
Will have quite a bit of painting to do in the near future. Rather that gloss painting things like skirting, banisters etc what are your thoughts on spray painting.
Was thinking hiring a air compressor, buy a sprayer and as long as the prep work has been done well then the finish should look ok.
What do you reckon?
freecar said:
I reckon that by the time you mask up, prep, spray and remove masking you will be worse off for time! Is it that you are bad at doing the gloss? Or are you just trying to save time? If it's the latter don't bother, will probably take you longer!
Just trying to get the best finish possible on the doors and wood workpaint pad rather than a brush, gave me fantastic results and 10 times quicker. If the place is a completely stripped shell that won't need a hell of a lot of masking it could be better spraying, but if you are using solvent based gloss rather than water based you'll have a splitting headache inside 20 seconds.
Edited by Davi on Wednesday 22 October 15:40
silver.fox.2008 said:
Just trying to get the best finish possible on the doors and wood work
you'll get a cracking finish by spraying but it takes twice as long as using a brush due to prepping upif you do decide to spray make sure the room you're spraying in is as dust free as possible - you'll notice dust pimples far more due to the eveness of the paint finish
As its close to Nov 5th, then this is the quickest way of painting a room.
Go and buy some fireworks, big ones, not the little piddly ones that are no good for this.
Go and buy some paint.
[Rolf Harris]Can you tell what it is yet?[/Rolf Harris]
There's a bit of an art to getting this right.
Go and check your household insurance policy.
Right, so your house is insured properly, even against getting the quantity of fireworks per paintpot wrong?
One of the tricks here is to make sure you've managed to leave the room by the time the firework does its business, otherwise you'll leave a human shaped void on the wall, floor, skirting.
Have fun and remember, always check your insurance policy before ignoring the firework code.
Go and buy some fireworks, big ones, not the little piddly ones that are no good for this.
Go and buy some paint.
[Rolf Harris]Can you tell what it is yet?[/Rolf Harris]
There's a bit of an art to getting this right.
Go and check your household insurance policy.
Right, so your house is insured properly, even against getting the quantity of fireworks per paintpot wrong?
One of the tricks here is to make sure you've managed to leave the room by the time the firework does its business, otherwise you'll leave a human shaped void on the wall, floor, skirting.
Have fun and remember, always check your insurance policy before ignoring the firework code.
Like Mr Bean...
I once worked for a plant hire company. Some people were spray painting a unit over the road and had no power on site so they hired a generator from us to run their machine.
After a while they came back and asked for a bigger generator as it was having trouble starting it. We weren't too worried because their machine had a fecking big induction motor on it and it was common for such devices to need a much bigger generator than one might think in order for the starting surge not to trip the breakers.
We went through a few iterations of this until they ended up with the biggest generator we had, and that seemed to sort them out.
Then a few days later they came in to ask if we had anything to get paint off things. They were white from head to toe and when we looked inside their unit it looked like Mr Bean had been firework-painting it.
It turned out that the reason the generator had had trouble starting their machine was not the fecking big induction motor per se, but that said motor had been having to start under a heavier and heavier load as vital parts of the machine gradually blocked up. Eventually it got so blocked that it exploded...
I once worked for a plant hire company. Some people were spray painting a unit over the road and had no power on site so they hired a generator from us to run their machine.
After a while they came back and asked for a bigger generator as it was having trouble starting it. We weren't too worried because their machine had a fecking big induction motor on it and it was common for such devices to need a much bigger generator than one might think in order for the starting surge not to trip the breakers.
We went through a few iterations of this until they ended up with the biggest generator we had, and that seemed to sort them out.
Then a few days later they came in to ask if we had anything to get paint off things. They were white from head to toe and when we looked inside their unit it looked like Mr Bean had been firework-painting it.
It turned out that the reason the generator had had trouble starting their machine was not the fecking big induction motor per se, but that said motor had been having to start under a heavier and heavier load as vital parts of the machine gradually blocked up. Eventually it got so blocked that it exploded...
I have an airless cambel & hauser (or something like that) which is a normal rental but it really isn't suitable for trim.
A little wagner on the compressor that you use for your tyres would be good for the doors though.
Vertical is better than horizontal for spraying.
Do them outdoors if you can.
A little wagner on the compressor that you use for your tyres would be good for the doors though.
Vertical is better than horizontal for spraying.
Do them outdoors if you can.
remove the doors , take them outside under a gazbo or in garage and spray.
no need for masking everything up and still get the finish you want .
will take you a few minutes to remove the screws and jobs a goon one , try not to spray the hinghes though lol .
faiing that a 4inch roller does work but belive you have to use a pecific type of roller, am not best painter and decoratoer hate doing it.
always sprayed my doors, skirtyings , arcatraives before instaling then just give them a quick touch up where they have been fitted , mainly do it this way for ease and to get the job done as have all spray booth at work that does this , so its all ready just case of picking up the gun .
no need for masking everything up and still get the finish you want .
will take you a few minutes to remove the screws and jobs a goon one , try not to spray the hinghes though lol .
faiing that a 4inch roller does work but belive you have to use a pecific type of roller, am not best painter and decoratoer hate doing it.
always sprayed my doors, skirtyings , arcatraives before instaling then just give them a quick touch up where they have been fitted , mainly do it this way for ease and to get the job done as have all spray booth at work that does this , so its all ready just case of picking up the gun .
Edited by wizzbilly on Thursday 23 October 07:28
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