Make Sure You Are Prepared If You Are Going To Use An Air Compressor And Spray Gun To Paint Your House
If you are trying to paint your house, you may be wanting to avoid brush or roller strokes on the exterior walls. Brush strokes and roller strokes can leave your walls looking not quite perfect. One way that you can avoid that is to use an air compressor and spray gun. It will get the walls painted quicker and allow you to leave a much more even coat and leave your house looking better. If you decide that you want to do it this way, there are going to be a few things that you are going to need to do to get ready to paint to make sure the clean up is easier and that the finished product is great.
Wear Some Protective Gear
If you are going to use a paint gun and air compressor to paint the outside of your house, you want to make sure that the house gets painted and not you. So, you will want to wear some kind of goggles or safety glasses, even if you wear glasses. That way, if and when a mist of paint droplets gets sprayed all over the place, it doesn't get on your eyes and you can still see what you are doing. You will also want to have something to cover your hair. A baseball cap or bandana will work really well. If you have long hair, put it up and then under the hat. If you don't want to get paint on your clothes, you could get disposable paper suits to wear over your clothes. The nice thing about wearing those suits is that cleanup is as easy as taking off the suit and throwing it away. You may also want to wear a breathing mask.
Cover Your Bushes
If you have bushes or shrubbery you may want to get some tarps or plastic to lay over your bushes. You don't want to just lay it down, you will want to make sure that you weigh the tarps down. You can do that by putting bricks or cinder blocks around the edges. You can also lay tarps down over your plants and garden. If you do that, you are going to want to protect the plants from getting squashed by putting some kind of frame under the tarp, or making sure that the tarp is laid loosely over your plants.
If you have decided to paint your house yourself, you may want to use a spray gun and air compressor to make it easier. Read more about house painting on this blog.