Painting Tips & Trade Skills

Explore expert painting tutorials, professional trade tips, and step-by-step guides from The Idaho Painter. Learn interior and exterior painting techniques, garage floor coatings, cabinet refinishing, deck and fence staining, surface preparation, spraying, and more. Whether you’re a DIY homeowner or a professional painter, discover the skills, tools, and industry knowledge needed to master the painting trades and grow your business.

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  • Controlling Overspray on your HVLP Gun

    HVLP Overspray Control Valves |...

    How to make the proper adjustments on an Apollo Atomizer spray gun to control overspray. What is the over spray control valve and what happens when I...

  • Painting patterns with The Idaho Painter

    Painting Wall Patterns

    Wall painting ideas. Painters know and love FrogTape as an excellent masking tape for protecting from overspray, and creating straight lines. Well, you can even use it...

  • How to paint perfect lines with The Idaho Painter

    Perfect Cut Ins

    Here is my ultimate guide to doing cut ins! Decades of knowledge have been put into this video - to teach you how to paint perfectly straight...

  • 6 Steps Painting A Room

    6 Steps Painting A Room

    Painting a bedroom can be overwhelming - but when you break it down into easy steps like this, it'll take the pain out of painting. Painting a...