Paint Sprayers - Are they any good

fluffymuffy

I bought a Dulux Paintpod thingy last year. It was useless. The special paint it needs is expensive and so thin you need many coats. Luckily it broke and so I was able to get a refund on it. I finished the job with a roller.

I think a good quality sheepskin roller on a pole (one the roller screws into) is the best way to paint walls and ceilings. With the walls the pole balances the weight of the roller. It's also a good idea to paint the walls and ceiling the same colour so you don't need to faff with edges.

keystone

fluffymuffy wrote: »

I bought a Dulux Paintpod thingy last year. It was useless. The special paint it needs is expensive and so thin you need many coats. Luckily it broke and so I was able to get a refund on it. I finished the job with a roller.

:T:T They are a triumph of marketing hype over practicality IMHO. PS the "special paint" is only watered down ordinary paint anyway (shh don't tell anyone!). PPS you won't catch professionals using them either - that should be a good enough clue. By the time you've faffed about with the thing the jobs done with a roller and you are an hour or two into the next job.

I think a good quality sheepskin roller on a pole (one the roller screws into) is the best way to paint walls and ceilings. With the walls the pole balances the weight of the roller.

Spot on.

It's also a good idea to paint the walls and ceiling the same colour so you don't need to faff with edges.

Each to his own.

Cheers

ormus

i can do 3 coats on a ceiling with a roller & pole, before the sprayer has even finished masking up.
a complete waste of time.

keystone

ormus wrote: »

i can do 3 coats on a ceiling with a roller & pole, before the sprayer has even finished masking up.
a complete waste of time.

and been in the pub for 2 hours buying the beer to celebrate your 20k posts!!. :beer:

Cheers

ihategossips

Thank you for replies, babies Dad would do the painting but I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to my home and he's bound to do it wrong - Hormones and all that!

Will stick to paint pads.

suisidevw

from experience paint pads aren't so great nad much slower than rollers. You can't go wrong with a roller?!??!?1