How long to paint?

[bucs012]

Bought me one of the Wagner Pro Plus Piston Pump sprayers last night. see here
http://www.wagnerspraytech.com/portal/paint_crew_plus_spray,201719,747.html

Anyone guess how long it may take me to paint my entire 50x30 garage on the INSIDE with NOTHING in the garage at all. NOTHING! Just a few 24"x12" windows and 3 services doors and an 18' open space where the garage door and tracks will be hung AFTER I am done painting.

Think I can shoot ceiling and walls in 2 hours? I bought 5 gallon buckets of paint and shooting it all white. I have no electricity in the garage yet so I want to try and get it done before dark, tonight..........

 

[ddawg16]

Bought me one of the Wagner Pro Plus Piston Pump sprayers last night. see here
http://www.wagnerspraytech.com/portal/paint_crew_plus_spray,201719,747.html

Anyone guess how long it may take me to paint my entire 50x30 garage on the INSIDE with NOTHING in the garage at all. NOTHING! Just a few 24"x12" windows and 3 services doors and an 18' open space where the garage door and tracks will be hung AFTER I am done painting.

Think I can shoot ceiling and walls in 2 hours? I bought 5 gallon buckets of paint and shooting it all white. I have no electricity in the garage yet so I want to try and get it done before dark, tonight..........

Actually painting will take about 1-2 hours....prep, 1-2 hours...clean up about 30 min....

Have the walls already been primered? If not, you need to shoot primer on there and let it sit for a day before you put on the final coat.....paint is one of those things you don't rush.....for a good example, read the post in the flooring section where the guy tried to do epoxy on his floor in one morning....trying to save a day is going to cost him serveral days and the cost of 2 kits...and a whole lot more work should he decide to fix it....

 

[bucs012]

Acutally, I am priming, first. My walls and ceiling are all new. I bought the contractor primer (for sheetrock) that comes in 5 gallon buckets from Menards. I think it has 6000 on it too.

I planned to prime tonight and hopefully be done by 8:30. Let it sit overnight and then shoot paint tomorrow about 10:00 in the morning. Think that will be waiting long enough?

 

[pcmeiners]

oil or latex prime ? latex primer no problem, takes little time to dry, thin it a mite.
Would say it will take min 2 hours unless you have a rolling scaffold. For final unit cleanup, I run water through until clear, do the same a couple times over the next 3 days, clean-out filter; for storage run some mineral spirits with a little oil through it. Clean up exterior of unit right after spraying, wait 12 hours and even latex is tough to get off . Amazing how fast these units paint.

 

[bucs012]

I am using latex primer and paint for the job.

My plan tonight is to shoot the entire garage with the first coat of primer- LIGHT coat, first. After that, come back through with a heavier 2nd coat starting with my orginal starting point since an hour or 2 should have past.

Then come back in the morning and shoot my paint.

Temps today are 65 degrees. Tonight 42-45. Tomorrow 56 and rain. Garage is insulated BUT the large 18' door has NOT been put on yet so the weather is still open to me but on the 30' side of the 50x30' garage. Only 1 garage door.

 

[pcmeiners]

Latex will not be an issue with moisture in the air, might just add 30-60 extra minutes between coats if extremely humid.
Personally I do not find a second coat is necessary, airless units can place a full coat in one shot. With primer, a full, totally covering coat is not needed. With oil primers (with latex top coat), I put on a light coat, never full, so moisture can travel though the paint, and not get trapped just behind it. Have fun, I like my airless almost as much as my chain saw..mechanised warfare.

 

[bucs012]

Thanks for all the info! I will try 1 GOOD coat of primer then. Heck, maybe I will wait a few hours and then shoot a coat of paint tonight!

 

[mhm993]

Read the side of the primer can. Bet a dollar it says that a longer dry- half a day or more--will result in better coverage when you shoot the finish coat. Latex primers offer more "dense" covering with a few hours extra time, apparently. At least, that's what the can next to me says.

 

[rsanter]

it will take much longer to tape off and prep for painting than it will take to paint

bob

 

[pcmeiners]

" Heck, maybe I will wait a few hours and then shoot a coat of paint tonight!"
Don't push it, I was not suggesting to shoot the finish coat tonight, give it overnight for the primer to dry.

Good thing your not shooting oil base, I wait 4 days before top coating, you would never make it.

 

[bucs012]

this is the primer I bought at Menards
http://europe.usg.com/index.php?id=1931

 

[Donn]

Clean the hell out of the sprayer after using it, When you think its clean do it again, a couple of times. The Wagner I have is a ****** to get clean, but does a great job - also strain your paint with a filter funnel. You can get them at Menards and use Flotril paint addtive - Wagner also makes one - but use it, will help alot with spraying!!!
I think the trick is to paint heavy and "back roll" after spraying to get the best finish!!
Just my 2 cents worth!!!

 

[bucs012]

"BACKROLL"- Does that mean to spray it on but have the wife come back over it with a roller?

 

[southpier]

trick question.


it will take forever to paint it if you have no electricity

 

[pcmeiners]

It's latex, still let it dry over night for topcoat. Back rolling is unnecessary with a professional airless unit, my entire house was sprayed with an airless, walls/ceilings are super smooth, one coat primer, one topcoat.