Staining And Varnish In The Cold???

paint works

Hi everybody, you have a new guy here. I was going to ask for you guys to quote a couple jobs but that subject looked to be worn out. Hahah. I have a couple new construction houses this winter and I'm not used to having work in coldest part of winter not sure what to do with the windows on this job, they need to be opened to get all inside them with stain and varnish. Do I tell them to wait until spring to finish their windows or is there simple answer to completing these windows in the winter? Thats was question one. Question two is I just bought a new sprayer and would like to start spraying the poly or varnish on my trim. trying to get some of it before it goes up but I will have to do some up. Do any of you spray your windows, doors, trim with poly while it is up in new construction or no. I would spray ceiling walls primer, finish coat on ceilings stain trim by hand and then spray two coats poly on doors windows trim and roll walls last. Any feedback I have alot of exp spraying latex, but not poly, should i tape walls around windows and walls above trim? Any help or Ideas are appreciated.



Jason-

Richard

Are you planning on using an HVLP or no? I know that when you spray you need to thin out the poly. Are the windows those 'easy clean' ones that fold down and in and out, etc? If so, you might have to wait--if they are older and have storms or something, I suppose you can get to it. And yes, I would tape/plastic/drop off anything and everything--I've seen a lot of poly oversray and it's not pretty

as far as estimating your jobs... in here it's kind of like 'give and take', rather than us doing your work for you--

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Rich

Frankawitz

Jason,
In the past when ever I did varnish in the winter the house had heat, we would put vasilene on the rubber gasket so at night when we closed the windows the varnish wouldn't stick. but those where casement windows, as for double hung we would leave them open just about a 1/8" and we did all of our varnishing with a brush. and as far as door and trim again we used only roller with Moe hair roller skin and a good 3" china brisle brush. Good Luck with the spraying.

paint works

Thanks for your response, they are the crank out windows, I was thinking of staining and two coats of waterbase poly, being winter and the house being all sealed up. What does everyone think of the waterbourne stuff, did I spell that right?


Thanks,

Jason

This forum is great!

AAPaint

It's not the waterBourne identity. It's waterborne.

Waterborne paints are great products for the most part. I use a few different waterborne products depending on application. The trim paint I typically use is pro classic waterborne. Gives a very nice finish like oil without half the hazards, and easier cleanup.

Dunno what to say about doing windows in extreme cold.

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Jacksonville, FL.