JJ4Short

Anyone ever paint inside of a house with a paint sprayer? If so which one did you use? How was it?

The Dougler

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Nope, Unless your doing a whole house or maybe an entire floor I doubt it's worth it. you should be able to hire some Illegal cuban's to do the work dirt cheap anyways.

JJ4Short

LOL Cubans are snobby, mexican is where its at!

But yeah I paint horribly! I am looking at a wall I painted right now and its pitiful! I dont want a huge one, just a small $100-$150 one that I will eventually use in the future for the rest of the house.

The Dougler

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buy a good roller, take your time. People tend to get carried away at home depot and buy all kinds of gimmicky crappy paint supplies on the cheap and this affects the outcome. buy a good roller, ask the attendant what;s the best one for the type of paint your using etc. Buy a good brush too. having quality tools is the first step to a quality outcome.

svtmike

^^ What he said.

Sprayers bring overspray, which you have to control. I've only seen them used indoors when the room is unfinished -- no trim, no carpet.

Get a good roller, and especially a good brush for cutting in.

And don't forget good paint!!!!! I like Benjamin Moore Aura paints particularly.

SiGGy

You can't really get a decent sprayer for that much. As everyone else has said you'd be better off using a nice roller.

spdy0001

I used a wagner power painter on the inside of a house

We were remodeling the house so we left the old carpet down, tapped the trim, and hung plastic in the doorways. Start spraying and make sure you have a window open. It worked very well and saved a ton of time. Not sure I would do it on a house I was planning on staying in, but it worked for our situation.

Chr8808

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I used this to paint my place. I started a big wall with a manual roller and it took me 24 minutes. When i did the second coat, i used this and it took approxiamtely 4 minutes.



http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...4&marketID=116

NSXNEXT

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http://www.essortment.com/home/paintinteriorw_tqnn.htm

If things work out and we purchase the house we're eyeing, I will definitely use an airless sprayer. If you mask everything well, it's cleaner than using a roller and brush.

NSXNEXT

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I'm sure it helped, but consider that the 2nd coat should always take considerably less time.

pmptx

Wagner Paint Crew-holds 2 gal and you can spray an entire room in no time. I did the radiant barrier in my attic in a day with the thing.

NSXNEXT

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I was researching that same one a few days ago. You can get a refurb for under $100.

fsttyms1

I have a sprayer similar to this unit. Unless you plan on masking every thing off and painting every room in the house its really not worth trying to spray. While the better airless sprayers produce minimal overspray its still there. Also to spray smaller rooms will take more time to clean the machine than to spray it. With the unit i have i painted the whole outside of my 1800sqft ranch in about 1.5 hours.