Fence Sprayers - Good or Bad?

fruitpie

As all the others have said - please think twice about the sprayer - (personally I think they should be banned !) our neighbour sprayed his fence and also splattered my new car, 2 detached houses/white frames and conservatory -they then moved!!! Devil of a job dealing with their insurance company.

plainsie

Our fence is 6 ft high no gaps and my hubbie used a roller. Very fast.

foomanchu

The spray paint is very watered down brush paint. I've had no problems adding water to brush paint to spray it (most paints are water based these days) goes a lot further. Messy as others have pointed out though.

Hitch

A workmate treated the side of his van with a fence sprayer.
Id not even entertain the idea, just use a nice big brush.

laurel7172

I bought one two weeks ago.

It didn't cover very well, and it was messy. I had to stop when a slight breeze arose. Either that or colour the greenhouse. And it took ages to clean out. I did the second half of the fence with a brush.

I guess it will recycle as a garden sprayer. If I ever need one.

jog

There was an feature about these on the Jeremy Vine show a couple of weeks ago, lots of people complaining about their neighbours using them and ending up painting cars, windows garden fuurniture etc. Advice was do not use them in any sort of breeze as the spary is so fine it spreads very easily.

Jog

Gloomendoom

jog wrote: »

Advice was do not use them in any sort of breeze as the spary is so fine it spreads very easily.

My advice is not to use them at all!

The splatters in my wife's case were great big gobs of reddy brown paint... not a fine spray.

fruitpie

fruitpie wrote: »

As all the others have said - please think twice about the sprayer - (personally I think they should be banned !) our neighbour sprayed his fence and also splattered my new car, 2 detached houses/white frames and conservatory -they then moved!!! Devil of a job dealing with their insurance company.

Maybe, if its well watered down/water based Foomanchu - but the guy that sprayed our property was using "wickes creosote substitute" - google that to see the COSSH regs... nasty stuff. Also it was a very,very windy day. (No regard at all for his neighbours)