Applying bedliner in driveway: spray or roll

[Ozdunc]

G'day fellas,

I got about a gallon of UPol Raptor bedliner ( 4 x 250ml cans) and a shultz gun. you chuck a bit of hardener into one of the cans, screw it on to the gun and spray away.

All sounds good, except...

I gotta do this in the driveway. It gets better. The has just had the garden redone and the front of the house repainted. I cannot get any bedliner on the drive, house or plants otherwise my 80 is going to have an ex-owner
I was planning on driving the truck onto a dropsheet and masking the truck pretty well.
How much over spray occurs when you spray this bedliner stuff? I'm thinking when you get to the end of a side you must shoot some of it into the air.
Am I better mixing the hardener and liner, then pouring out and rolling it on?
I was hoping by spraying I'd get a smoother finish, but can I get a similar effect using a foam roller or something else?

The drives not big. If I park the truck in the middle I've probably got 3ft around each side before either the plants or the house starts.

I suppose I could knock together a timber frame and use some plastic sheeting to form a sort of booth. Seems a bit drastic though.

thanks in advance

 

[jimd4x4]

I sprayed my bedliner in the garage. The s*** gets everywhere. If you have a that is gonna get cranky. You better roll it on.

 

[Ozdunc]

Thanks mate. Kinda what I figured would be the case.
Shame I don't get to play at paint spraying, but on the plus side the masking should be easier.

 

[MT-PTK]

Rolled mine in the driveway, came out great imo.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/paint-body/229466-unofficial-durabak-thread-4.html



W.

 

[Ozdunc]

Yeah, took Mon/Tues off work and did it. Came out pretty good, even the thought it looked great!!!
Had a small issue with the drop sheet getting blown up and sticking to the second coat on one of the fenders. Bit of a frantic time trying to roller some rapidly hardening liner over the big mark. I can see where its happened esp in the sun, which is a little annoying, but I'm sure once its been wheeling I'll never think about it again.

 

[laguna80]

Rolled mine on too. It worked well. It was herculiner. I can take some pics if you like.

 

[addicted56]

I was going to say spray it. I did my truck a couple of weekends ago and sprayed the Raptor. I didn't get anywhere I didn't want it to.

 

[skidplate]

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