Wagner power painter

[tc86gn]

I am currently in the process of prepping my house for painting. I was wondering how many on the board have purchased and used any of their power painters.

I bought their paint eater and it works well to feather some of the areas together or to just strip it off to the wood without damage.

I was looking at the HVLP system as I would like to keep the overspray to a minimum.

I will be painting the soffits and facia boards with water based paint and primer. I also want to spray stain and water sealer on the cedar siding. This is oil based. It is a fairly large house with a small second story so lots of work.

Thx in advance. Any tips appreciated.

 

[87natl]

Unless they have come a long way in the last decade, they are garbage. Perhaps they have. But piston pump sprayers is all I deal with any more. No diaphrams. No noisy electricguns with little cups that hold no material and will only shoot latexes once they have been thinned. About the smallest pump I would even consider for any real paint jub is a Graco 190. Of course, I've been working in the paint industry for 18 years and am a bit biased....... If you don't want to pay to buy a legit sprayer, go to a paint store or rental equipment place and rent a real machine for the weekend. Tell them what you will be spraying and get the apropriate tips for it. A Graco 390 or Titan 440 would probably be perfect for you.

 

[tc86gn]

I figured that I would have to thin it. And I don't want to do that. The sun really does some damage here so I want to get good coverage in 2 coats and 1 prime. Prep is everything and I got that under control.
That is excellent advice. I never thought about renting one. Thx.

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Used a Wagner painter about 10 years ago to paint my garage walls in my old condo. BRAND NEW, made a bunch of noise and spattered paint all over the place. Threw it in the garbage without doing more than one wall.

 

[chadly]

Wagner sucks! I bought one about five years ago and it was noisy, spit paint everywhere, and constantly plugging up. Last year I decided to look for a new sprayer when I spoke to an employee at Lowes about the Wagner he said they are much improved and only get about 10% of them back due to defects. I about fell over that he was proud of that. He said the old models they were getting close to 40% return. I ran from the Wagner as fast I could and bought a Graco. Now that’s a nice sprayer.

 

[V8Assassin]

X2 on the rental, best way to go without investing a bunch of money into owning one. The piston sprayers work very well and overspray can be easily contoled with the right nozzle and a shield.

 

[rmar]

They are great for painting the inside of a rent house....... And I mean paint everything.....

 

[V8Assassin]

They are great for painting the inside of a rent house....... And I mean paint everything.....

:biggrin: I have gotten to where I rent the big sprayers for rental houses. Takes a little time to tape stuff off, but the paint goes on quick!!!

 

[rmar]

I have a big airless.'

Hell sometimes I don't even tape off windows. It is easier to scrape them clean and leave.I am talkin trim, cabinets,walls,ceilings..

Next victim...........

 

[V8Assassin]

No kidding, huh, the last house I sprayed the outside, I didn't tape or anything. Two years later, still with the paint on the windows!! :biggrin:

Oh well, one of them got replaced after a drive by, at least it was on the front of the house. BTW not kidding, some guy decided he would "air out" his ex girlfriends place which she just happened to be renting from me!

 

[The Blob]

I am currently in the process of prepping my house for painting. I was wondering how many on the board have purchased and used any of their power painters.

I haven't used one in about ten years but back then, if you carefully fine tuned it, it was good to get the paint on the walls... but then you had to go over it with a brush to smooth out the little splatter marks. If you didn't fine tune it it just made a mess.

Maybe they're better now?

Positives - Even though you have to go behind it with a brush it does make the job go quite a bit faster.

Negatives - You'll end up using a fair bit more paint, for whatever reason.

If time is more important than money, get one. If it's not, don't.

 

[tc86gn]

Thanks for all the input from everyone. I will just rent one when I do the stain.

I am going to just brush and roll the eaves.

You guys just saved me some money.