RicodJour wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
RicodJour wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
RicodJour wrote:
Photon713 wrote:
Looking for an inexpensive, around $100, paint sprayer to
spray paint a pergola. I will be using a white latex outdoor
paint.
Painting by brush would take forever. Spray painting is the only
viable option. Anyone have a recommendation?
You still have to brush the paint out, or should, to insure that all
cracks, crevices and voids are filled with paint. Otherwise those
points will fail sooner and you'll be painting again earlier than
you should.
This is kind of defeating the purpose of spraying. If you have to
brush out a sprayed finish you did something wrong.
I'm not convinced that spraying is the way to go in the first place.
It would depend entirely on the configuration. Take a look at this
pictu
http://www.prontocasagiardino.com/im...toportante.jpg
You can't spray that without brushing out. This one
http://www.dreamingcreek.com/Images/...outdoor3-1.jpg you could
spray, but you'd still need a brush in a few places.
I can't see where there would be any difficulty with spraying either of
them with airless.
Let me guess. You didn't need flying lessons, you just hopped in the
cockpit and took off, right? We're not talking about you, strange as
it may seem. We're talking about someone with no experience. If you
believe that someone would be able to spray all of those corners and
between the sides of the beams without having runs all over the place,
you're deluded. They'd have to break out the brush anyway you look at
it.
If they do they do. Geez, it's not the effing end of the universe you know.
For a cheapie paint sprayer you can use a 2 1/2 gallon compression
pump sprayer, thin the paint a bit and brush it out.
Maybe that's your problem. A hand-pumped sprayer is _not_ a
substitute for HVLP or high pressure airless.
No kidding? I'm sure you're not suggesting that a beginner with no
experience spraying will be able to spray a drip and run free finish
the first time out of the gate, right?
Are you suggesting that a beginner with no experience would be able to
brush
one? Takes more skill to do a good job with a brush than with a sprayer.
When all things are factored in - time, expense, cleaning time, ease of
operation - using two rollers (9" and 3") and a brush would probably be
the best choice for the OP. Since the OP is convinced that spraying is
the only option, and he doesn't want to spend any money, I tossed out
the compression sprayer.
The OP asked for a low cost sprayer and the Wagner things suck. The
compression sprayer is useful for a bunch of other things and is about
as cheap as it gets. It obviously won't spray a finish comparable to a
pro tool, but it will get the paint where he needs it.
So will the cheap Wagner that you denigrate. And it's likely to do a far
better job than something intended to spray weed killer.
I denigrate...? Are you talking about this range of Wagner sprayer?
http://www.epinions.com/Wagner_Power...splay_~reviews
That's the one.
Maybe you have easily satisfied standards in your equipment, but I
don't buy stuff just to buy stuff. The rating of that Wagner from that
link was skewed by a guy who liked it after spraying a garage door and
a couple of other doors. Doors aren't pergolas.
And a few others who were happy with it. I've never bought one, just used
one to spray some "difficult" coatings. Pro airless works better, but the
cheapie gets house paint out the nozzle just fine.
Compression sprayers come in a variety of sizes and types. The better
ones have changeable tips to change the spray pattern and deal with
different viscosities. They can be used to spray all sorts of stuff,
from deck stain and sealer, pesticides, formwork release agent, and
yes, paint.
Doesn't mean that it's good at any of them.
The guy's not trying to win the concours at Long Beach for God's sake.
Develop some effing _perspective_.
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