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Just about to take keys for new house and have 3 floors to paint and only one week off work.
Just googled spray painting and yep it looks fast, presumably after you've spent a week masking 98% of the house.
Any real world STWDIYdecorators tried this with success??
Thinking of buying a decent HEA machine and punt it on after I've done the house.
You're going to have to back roll anyway so unless you're pulling out all the carpets just get yourself an 18" roller setup and crack on.
Empty rooms will happen quickly if you're organised and move room to room as coats of paint dry.
I painted my first house - an empty 2 up 2 down - in 2.5 days many years ago. Be organised around the coats drying in different rooms and you'll be fine
A friend did his whole house with it, reckons its faster overall as youre not having to do all the cutting in every coat.
But you do spend what feels like forever masking. And its only viable if the house is completely empty as you cant just shove furniture to the middle and throw a blanket over it.
I've thought of it, but primarily to justify getting a 3M hand masker and the masking film. That looks good fun when you see it done properly.
That 3M thing looks just the ticket for setting up a murder room....
Balls, nope..just believe me if I say it's a clip of someone effortlessly spraying a room very very quickly
Spraying gives a great finish. Much cleaner looking than rolling. Easier to work from skirtings to ceiling, as you won’t end up needing to mask the ceiling. Any touching up with a brush will look obvious as the finish is quite different.
I saw a demo of paint spraying at one of the Screwfix shows, it was very impressive. Company name was Wagner. And if I remember correctly no masking up required as a cone of high pressure air around the perimeter contains the paint.
Any touching up with a brush will look obvious as the finish is quite different
This is why it's worth back rolling. You can then touch up as you like. For walls/ceiling consider the sprayer literally is just a way of delivering high quantities of paint on the wall rather than repeated dipping in your tray.
That said, it's easy to overload a wall with an airless sprayer, you'll use more material but back rolling let's you essentially QC your paint application.
If you are doing everything the same colour then it may be the way for you. If different rooms are different colours then probably not due to clean out and setting up for different paints.
I used one to do our bannister, etc. and the finish was very good but still use a roller and brush on walls as despite practice with the sprayer ended up masking for far longer than it takes me to cut in. If doing a whole house you can just keep going in a loop as the first room will be dry by the time you do the last!