Transform Your Garage Door Instantly: Paint Spraying with the Graco Magnum Project Plus

This is our step-by-step guide to transform your garage door and fences. It's pretty crazy how much of a difference paint can make; bringing a new life to the facade of your house for many years to come.

For knocking these projects over quickly, and achieving a flawless finish, we take you through our process of surface preparation, surface cleaning, masking, setting up the Graco Magnum Project Plus Airless Sprayer, spraying undercoat, top coat and demasking. You can easily achieve all of this in a day with the right preparation, willingness to give it a crack, and by following our guide.

This is definitely a deep-dive and will give you all the information you need to know, whether you're thinking of purchasing an airless sprayer for your home project, or have just purchased a Graco Magnum unit, we take you through all aspects of what spray tip to use, setup procedure and dialing in the right settings to get the best finish possible. Chapters have been included to nagivate your way through the video, and to easily come back if you need a refresh on a certain process of the repaint.

Gear used for this project

• Graco Magnum Project Plus Airless Paint Sprayer
• Graco 'Spray More Kit' (everything you need out of the box to tackle projects like this)
• Mirka Entry Level Sanding Kit
• Mirka Edge Protector for DEROS 150mm Sander
• Jetwave Raider 1900 PSI High Pressure Water Cleaner
• iQuip Masking Film & Paper Dispensing
• iQuip Cloth Render Masking Tape (for concrete and brick surfaces)
• iQuip Envo Tape - 36mm x 50M (for masking pretty much all-substrates)
• iQuip Kraft Paper 300mm

Chapter

• 0:00 - INTRO
• 0:15 - ABOUT THE PROJECT
• 0:37 - SURFACE PREP - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SANDING
• 4:01 - PRESSURE CLEANING
• 4:57 - MASKING UP
• 7:34 - MIX THE PAINT
• 9:08 - SETTING UP THE AIRLESS PAINT SPRAYER
• 15:40 - ALL ABOUT SPRAY TIPS
• 17:50 - DIALING IN YOUR SPRAY FAN
• 19:22 - SPRAYING PRIMER COAT
• 23:52 - SPRAYING TOP COAT (1st Coat)
• 26:44 - SPRAYING FINAL TOP COAT (2nd Coat)
• 28:26 - DEMASKING
• 28:55 - THE FINAL RESULT (GRAND REVEAL)

 

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