What to do based off what not to do learning…….
When the paint color specified has a part number associated with it, you might want to remember that. There are several shades of metallic gold, peril and silver at those craft shops. Asking the lady which gold is pale won’t help.
Read the paint sprayer instructions before screwing up. Hoping that they may help you fix your screw ups after the fact doesn’t help matters. Once you screw up, there’s no going back. They don’t tell you much to begin with come to think about it. It’d be better to just ask someone how to use the damn things that knows. Or better yet, have someone else spray your screen.
Don’t put plastic down on the floor where you will be spraying. That crap is slippery on plastic when you are in a hurry dancing around the sheet with a paint sprayer.
Make sure you don’t sit down on your leather sofa with paint on your ass.
Don’t spray the sheet flat. The damn sprayer runs out of paint and spits out huge globs of paint because you have the stupid thing at an angle. Chances are that by the time you get to the bottom half of the sprayer’s paint can, you are on your finish coat. The sprayer will suck air and spit it out on your sheet along with goobers of paint.
Troweling out the globs doesn’t work no matter how steady you think your hand is. A brush does no better. It’s paint after all, not concrete or plaster. Don’t know what I was thinking, but it most definitely wasn’t smart thinking.
Spaying more paint over the trowel and brush marks in hopes to “spread the screw ups out more evenly” is a bad idea.
If the paint looks wet, it probably is. Touching it to confirm this suspicion is a bad idea. Troweling or brushing out the finger print doesn’t work either. More paint doesn’t work either.
Don’t just wing it. Try to practice your new found skills at spraying on something else first. Something big because these stupid sprayers have a gazillion different things to adjust.
Install the French cleats or other hanging means on the back of the board before spraying it. They are tough to install lying under the board.
Skip the double miters on the trim.
Velvet is awfully hard to keep clean in a garage with sawdust everywhere.
I hope that helps those who are contemplating a DIY screen………
