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[Will]

With the upcoming summer brings warm weather and also unfortunately, insects. Recently this has become a problem when painting. As soon as I start spraying, the bugs swarm. Its incredibly annoying, especially when a smaller bug flies into the stream of paint and is the glued to my blaster under a layer of paint which then needs to be scraped out and the area repainted. Then the worst part. Once I retreat from the mosquitoes inside to let the thing dry, the cockroaches come out. And what do they do? They EAT the fresh paint right off my gun! Once I counted 8 cockroaches at one time munching on the paint. I don't know what to do. I don't have a garage to paint in. Will spraying Raid or bug spray react weird with the chemicals in the paint or something.?

[DudeRadster]

Coat a room in newspaper and paint there. Raid might not react wierd with the chemicals in the plastic, but it might keep the paint from sticking to the shell properly if you apply it onto the blaster.

[lasagna678]

Coat a room in newspaper and paint there. Raid might not react wierd with the chemicals in the plastic, but it might keep the paint from sticking to the shell properly if you apply it onto the blaster.

Take the idea here and create a outdoor spray area. It ain't too good to paint in the house.

But take some rags or newspaper, weigh them down with a rock or two and create a ring of bug killer/ repeller.

Should do he trick for the ground based insects.

For the flying ones, might i suggest a fantastic flying insect repeller, the Thermacell. I use them at my cottage in the swamp and they create a great barrier for repelling mosquitos and flies. You can use them when you are outdoors for any occasion and having one upwind of your spraying area would help great.

I don't think that the fumes from this would hurt the paint. it just creates a small unnoticeable puff of smoke and away goes the flies.

Hope that helps.

[BlackhawkJack]

I would suggest laying down some cardboard on the grass or wherever you're painting, and when you're finished just stick a box around it. Protects from the sides eliminating cockroaches and protects from aerial insects landing in your new paint.I also suggest Thermacell for keeping flying insects away while painting.

Edited by BlackhawkJack, 15 July 2012 - 12:29 AM.

[bhajj94]

Do you have some kind of shed? Even a basement might do. I do my spray painting on my glass porch now, because of that exact reason. If you put some newspaper down, and limit where you spray, you could minimize the mess. Also, doing it inside will allow the spray paint to dry faster because of the lack of humidity.