Paint guns for decorating?

[exmoor dave]

I've got a fair bit of decorating to do in my place and the farm house.......... I hate painting........I really ruddy hate it!

Are paint sprayer guns any good?

Obviously got a compressor here, but would airless machines be better?


A quick glance at screwfix
https://www.screwfix.com/c/decorating/electric-paint-sprayers/cat830802

The top one at £240 would be absolute max budget.

Or would something £50- 100 do the job?


cheers in advance

 

[exmoor dave]

Ideally something that could be used for farm jobs as well would be good, like red oxide

 

[Pilgrimmick]

Got an electric one from aldi for £20, was great, used it to paint the walls of an old stone barn, Had to thin the paint down quite a lot, but got into every nook and cranny, very controllable so no problem in the house if everything covered with dust sheets.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

My Dad and his bro bought a hand-held electric sprayer for exactly that sort of thing, the woolshed and covered yards got a paint, inside and outside of the old homestead got a paint- then it got parked up. It was good to use I thought, a bit heavy for a 9 year old lad, but I did a huge area per day.
It was a Wagner one too.
Quite good for on a roof, we actually filled the pot with the old lube pump and threw it out when we were all done saved a ton of mess, but that was where I picked up my painting bug!
A good tool, the flash one in your link would possibly be overkill for what you need, but wants and needs as they say..

 

[exmoor dave]

My Dad and his bro bought a hand-held electric sprayer for exactly that sort of thing, the woolshed and covered yards got a paint, inside and outside of the old homestead got a paint- then it got parked up. It was good to use I thought, a bit heavy for a 9 year old lad, but I did a huge area per day.
It was a Wagner one too.
Quite good for on a roof, we actually filled the pot with the old lube pump and threw it out when we were all done saved a ton of mess, but that was where I picked up my painting bug!
A good tool, the flash one in your link would possibly be overkill for what you need, but wants and needs as they say..

My place isn't too big a area to paint, I could do it with brushes.......just will destroy my soul in the process


But the farm house is a "big" 5 bedroom long house with big rooms, not been decorated in 20 years. .......3 blokes living in it......you can probably imagine it's abit tatty

Both sisters have bought houses in the last year too which are in the process of getting decorated & I help out abit.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

It would be great for interior work, and keep your sense of humour intact Dave
.... welcome to borrow mine though .
I'd rather use that nice wee lance and leave the heavy stuff on the ground if I had ceilings to do, but the pot ones are useful enough IMO.

 

[S J H]

I've got a Wagner, it's ok for some jobs but I wouldn't go in the house with it. Painters are the cheapest trade IME

 

[suffolksmallholder]

I've got a Wagner, it's ok for some jobs but I wouldn't go in the house with it. Painters are the cheapest trade IME

Not good ones! Yes there's the 'cheap' painter; wipe the surface with any old piece of material & brush on the cheapest contract top-coat. The bigger the brush the better.
There's the good one who will remove all the poor paint, prepare the surface properly, degrease with sugar soap if needed or suitable degreaser. Fill/prepare surface for primer then undercoat X2 or even X3, THEN the topcoat in the colour discussed, possibly trying an area out-of-sight to make sure the client is satisfied. Now that IS proper professional painting. Worlds apart.

I'll ask Eldest (BA Hons in fine art) & now a professional painter & decorator, with more than a years work in front of him, which gun he uses. He does have one of the best for those few jobs that require one. There's lots of masking involved I do know.
For some of the best paints look at this; https://www.benjaminmoorepaint.co.uk
SS

 

[ajcc]

Needs to be well thinned to spray paint but needs good adhesion for vertical walls or ceilings...water based paint might not work?

 

[SilliamWhale]

I wouldn't spray paint indoors unless it was totally new everywhere - risk of spray is too great. Get a nice 12" roller and good rollers and brushes and its quite a nice job on a rainy day with the radio on

 

[RagnarHairybreeks]

Agreed, rollers for the win.

You're still going to have to cut in with brushes whatever system you use (unless we're talking six surfaces all equally covered, in which case just strap 1/2 a stick of dynamite with a sixty second fuse to a tin of Dulux and leave the room).

 

[Henarar]

 

[bigg6480]

I was thinking this was more @exmoor dave way of doing it as I read down.

 

[exmoor dave]

Thanks for the replies

Sounding abit like a paint sprayer might be more hassle than its worth.


Rollers...... Hmmmm.....maybe I have a awful technique because I aways seem to get paint flicking everywhere..... so I go back to using a brush and remembering I hate painting

 

[Henarar]

give my Idea a go Dave you know you want to

 

[exmoor dave]

give my Idea a go Dave you know you want to

I'm fighting the urge

 

[SilliamWhale]

Thanks for the replies

Sounding abit like a paint sprayer might be more hassle than its worth.


Rollers...... Hmmmm.....maybe I have a awful technique because I aways seem to get paint flicking everywhere..... so I go back to using a brush and remembering I hate painting

Dont overload the roller. Your really not looking forward to it are you?!

 

[lim x]

Preparation is the key to getting a good finish.
Sugar soap the walls before you begin and fill the cracks and imperfections, and sand.
Go to a good paint supplier...not B and Q, and get good quality professional paint, paint trough and wide roller. Don't overload it as that can be why it sprays back at you.

This time last year we were painting a new property and used over 200 lt of paint, above advice comes from mistakes we made. OH now says he would try a sprayer if doing again. It really did take ages, but we saved about 4k doing it ourselves. It was horrid.

Best of luck

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Hmmmm @exmoor dave the original fire starter....... Got to be fire in there somewhere..!

Or how about getting some of your sheep, dip in paint, send em in the room.

"Some" might end up on the walls

 

[multi power]

@exmoor dave , you being the king of bodged, I can't believe you are going to spend money on a paint sprayer, what is wrong with the type of thing pikeys use for shed painting