Spraying Trim with Oil-based Paint
Building new house (still) and doing lots of custom trim, painted with oil-based. Most of the pre-primed trim I’ve found has been substandard, so I am buying mostly stain grade and starting from scratch.
We sand, brush on a coat of primer, sand again, put on a coat of paint, install, caulk & fill, and brush on a final coat. Has worked well and looks beautiful, but is slow.
Also, the textured 6-panel doors worked fine, but the solid 6-panel doors have not worked as well (lap marks, brush marks too heavy, etc). Using a good quality paint (SW’s best), have used Penetrol, thinner, linseed oil…. still not perfect.
I want to speed things along, and have one more solid door and 6 exterior doors (fiberglass) to do, so now I want to spray the primer and 1st coat.
My question (finally) is, what exactly do I need to do this right? I have a fair sized compressor and a medium sized airless sprayer (used to prime all the interior drywall). I will buy whatever I need. I am space limited, and will be working with fairly small batches of trim.
Please supply as much detail as possible. Thanks in advance. (I will be on vacation for the next week, so please don’t think I’m not interested in your replys since I won’t be responding right away.)
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Actually I plan to try that. I put up some textured Hardiboard in my garage (just the lower 3 ft.) and rolled on the oil-based paint. Guy at the paint store said I'd need to brush it out, but it wasn't necessary -- looked perfect just as it was. So I'm sure that would definitely work well on the textured doors.
In reality, I'm not sure the "baggage" that comes with spraying (overspray, cleanup, etc) is worth it, but I still think I'd like to give it a try. I still have lots of trim to do.