Any tricks for painting single pain windows???

[gregkl]

I see you may have already decided, but just to add, I have painted ton's of windows in my life. I don't spray because I like the quality of the brush but I just brush it on the window and scrape later. This gives you the best looking, sharpest edge and the bead of paint helps to seal the window just a bit more.

I can paint and scrape faster than cutting in super careful or taping, of which both will not produce as good as a job.

 

[Brian Ski]

I see you may have already decided, but just to add

The windows are going to be brushed... Just the building sprayed. Maybe hit the trim because they could use as many coats as they can get. They are quite dry.

The building exterior is about 1000 sq ft. So it would be work to brush, roller would not do it with the ship lap siding. It will need a couple coats anyway.

I am doing a little at a time. So far windows have 1-3 coats. Some I hit more that others (right now)

Thanks for any ideas!!

 

[flightsimmer]

I remember seeing a painter pro paint windows with an angled paint brush and he deliberately put a little paint on the glass and he said that was to seal the joint so that water couldn't get into the wood so a little paint on the glass isn't a bad thing.

 

[Shadow01]

As a kid helping my grandfather paint windows, he would run chapstick around the edge of the glass. You could easily scrape it off with the paint sticking to the chapstick or let the sun dry it out several weeks and it would fall off the glass. I have heard that the glue sticks work about the same.