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If you live in an association, at some point you will get a letter saying you have to paint your gate. In iron gate is a little different than a wood gate in that there is a lot of open space. I wouldn’t want to use a brush to paint it, nor would I want to break out the airless sprayer, but a spray can works well.
The problem is that most of the paint that you spray will end up being spraying on everything beyond the gate with only a small amount of paint contacting the gate. There isn’t a lot you can do about that though, but you can protect the area behind the gate from getting paint on it.
Cut a piece of cardboard to fit your needs. I find that two feet by two feet seems to work well. You can hold the cardboard behind the gate as you spray paint. The cardboard will get paint on it rather that the house or landscaping behind it.
Use light passes rather than one heavy pass of paint. Follow the bars of the gate with successive passes until you get a good coat of paint on it. Your finger will get fatigued by continually pressing down on the button, so you might consider switching fingers. They make a trigger that snaps on to the top of a spray can, but I don’t much care for them as the ones I’ve used break easily.
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