DECORATING WITH AIRLESS SPRAYERS - Will I ditch my roller? 

Great to see a good bit of DIY happening, spraying is definitely the way forward. The only thing I’d say as a professional sprayer is that you should make sure you’re using the right mask. That JPS mask looked like it was only a P3 or P3R. This won’t actually filter out airborne paint particles, they will still get into your lungs. You need a mask with ABEK1 or AB1 as a minimum. Otherwise you are risking your health. Just a pointer! Happy spraying 👍🏽

I use the bigger version of this for doing empty full house jobs, it has proved to be an invaluable tool! One issue I found kept happening was when I used the clear decorators film it “held “ moisture from the spray as it’s obviously waterproof. It caused the paint to run down & off causing a lot of clean up. Also it had a tendency to act like a sail as the air hit it. I switched to the brown masking paper car sprayers use. Because it’s slightly heavier it stops the sail effect, it also soaks and holds any overspray. Hope it helps! Cheers for the vid.

I've bought the same type of Wagner unit as shown here and I concur with all the comments. I think it is the way forward with home renovation (at least) and the only "downside" I experienced was the additional mask out required (particularly ceilings). To give you an idea, my lviing room ceiling is approx. 50sqm with massive plaster cornices (150mm) all the way around. When painting using brush roller, just the cornices were an all day job. With this machine, I painted the lot in less than 15 mins. It really can be that quick. The machine itself works perfectly and produces excellent results prodviding you take some care with your paint types. The finish is way better than roller based painting, at least in my view (i've done a lot of that in my past) and if the surface is not 100% virgin, coverage is great. If virgin, you just need a bit more overlap in your paint strokes is all. Well done on the vid.

What a diy man this fella is! Inspiring

I've got a smaller Wagner unit and they are good. It's all in the prep and you can achieve very good results. They are also good for spraying furniture so you get a nice smooth finish rather than seeing the brush marks.

AS a decorator who does a lot of new build we use 2 sprayers one doing cielings in white the other doing walls in Magnolia and the time saved makes the work super efficient.

When you spray ceiling and walls in different colours, then spray walls first. You would do ceiling first when rolling, but it is much easier to mask the walls than masking a ceiling.

Im part way through a full house reno. First few rooms i rolled then i got fed up so bought this sprayer about 6 weeks ago. The finish is so good. I've only used it for white mist coats and white matt so far. Can't say I've got the hang of a 10 minute clean down yet though, it seems to take me ages. But high victorian ceilings are a breeze, and i'm totally converted. I've even bought a smaller sprayer for coloured walls.

I found the airless sprayer the best thing to use to painting coving/cornice. No brush marks, just a flat smooth finish 👍 I wish I kept my Wagner unit, guess I’ll be buying a new one when I do my new place up

Great job mate. The Wagner's make painting a room so much quicker, good little machines.

Thanks for this, it couldn't have landed at a more opportune moment. I'm about to tackle a 27x15ft room, walls and ceilings and the thought of spending days with a roller was filling me with dread. Good summary and thanks for saving me the hassle.

I’m doing my first spray job in the kitchen today. I’m all about the ease. Especially where the finish looks so good. Hopefully this goes to plan. I can deal with the prep work so fingers crossed 🤞 thanks for the video. Very detailed and helpful. Good luck with the rest of your projects

Blimey, I’m always amazed at your ability and crack on attitude. Whilst not having any experience spraying rooms, I have thought it looks the way to go. To be honest though, as quick as that looked.. the pre and post prep I imagine is involved 😳 I’ll stick to roller, brush and a beer or two😄. Great video though, enjoy your Chanel and have learned a lot from all of your videos. 👍👍

We have just bought a four bedroom house and need to decorate every room, so a sprayer was on my shopping list. In a previous life I used to spray cars and I've always thought spraying a house would be a much better for speed and finish. Thanks for sharing!

We bought a project house a few years back and I invested in an earlex HVLP sprayer. I had great success with it on the walls and woodwork but as shown in this video it’s all in the preparation! And once a wall has been sprayed you cannot touch-up a scuff with a 4” roller! The finish you get is exceptional for DIY. If you do have a go it’s also worth using the right masking tape like Q1 tapes or Tesa.

Brilliant bit of kit and to confirm I bought it based on your video demo. Thanks again and keeps the vids coming much appreciated.

This is the most informative review on this product. I might just buy it.

Great helpful project...loved to sprayed finish ...looks very professional! 👏🏻👏🏻I loved all the colours but the blue colour was striking maybe you could ask your girls to give a little tour of the rooms in between projects/ school and just enjoying their space 😉🤗🙋🏻‍♀️🇬🇧💕jane

I’ve had my Wagner 250R Pro for two years in the box. Now I need to paint a 4.6m high wall x 10m I will use it but I’m quite nervous. You’re demonstration has encouraged me thanks.

As a flooring installer if you are getting carpet put back down they will be happy you left the old tack strip there for them. I just brought this unit looking forward to giving it a go.

Excellent. Off to buy a Wagner Control Pro 250m today. Thank you for your timely review.

24:00 touch ups. Trust me, anyone can get a spray finish touch up with roller or even brush. I've been working with Wagner, Graco units worth thousands etc the past 8 years, industrial sprayer day in day out. Thin down your product with suitable thinner/water/glycol etc and get flock foam rollers and take in larger sections. No need to respray unless your surface area is more than a couple metre square. Great job by the way, truly a master of all trades, you're universal logic and can-do attitude serves you well. your wagner airless is a fine investment, get back your time. Had some painters scoff at me, claiming touch ups can't be done, blacks and strong colours are impossible to work with. Have hundreds of customers to say otherwise, not even other professionals can see where I've done remedial work to others damage.

I’ve got a smaller Wagner sprayer & renovated & sprayed my aluminium garden furniture with an excellent finish, down side painting inside is the environmental impact with all the extra masking with plastic sheeting, it’s just getting the settings right that makes all the difference + a bit of practice!!

Two years ago i painted a whole house with a roller😳 i took me three weeks. Last week i paint sprayed approx 3 quarters of a house and it took my 5 days😳 much better finish too! I’m a sprayer converter 😂

Fantastic video … so practical/real world and down to earth .. pros and cons. Well presented .. will be watching more :)

Thank you for your insights and impressions using the sprayer . . . very useful!

Well done. Best video I've watched as I'm investing in both of the tools which you've used. Thanks

Great video... We are in the process of painting a whole house and I had been thinking of getting a sprayer. You convinced me. I have a large family and they all have their own famliesto take care of. So to get them all together at the same time to

I seem to live a parallel life to this guy, doing all the same stuff. Ive had two of these 250 and the 350 they are really good, I did a large semi all the way through in a day, however this was on an empty house! On fresh plaster sometimes the spray doesn't adhere too Well and In part I've had to sand down the wall after so when I re spray over it sticks... or just roller 1st then spray. Onky best for emulsion too ! Overall I'd say they are better than a roller, the finish is far better!!

This is the best video for a newbie i have watched and i have watched alot of videos. Well done

I have been a brush and roller man since 1970 and recently I noticed that I can see pretty good without wearing my glasses (unheard of in the past years with my eyes) so I recently bought Wagner Pro 190 along with a few accessories online and can hardly wait for a call about painting so I can spray it instead!

Spraying is the way to go. I'm a decorator by trade and love it, the finish is unbeatable. I painted 2 coats on all of the woodwork in a 4 bedroom house in a day would've taken me 3 days by brush.

What a revelation! A mate has one of these (yellow) units and has offered it to me. I'm a decorator. It looks like I need to have a go. One tip when doing cabinets or trim with a roller - always lay the paint off with a brush. You can get a 'Laying Off Brush' specifically for it. yes, you need to be quick with water based paints, but the finish can be exquisite. Floetrol keeps the paint 'open' for a bit longer, and for big panels, wipe them down with a wet cloth immediately before painting to give you half a minute longer to get the paint on. The best paint I've encountered so far is F&B Modern Eggshell or Tikurilla, but the paint tech is evolving all the time so I fully expect to see Dulux, Leyland and so on bringing new stuff. Oh, Zinsser do some magic paint - and even B&Q's Valspar emulsion is exquisite. Great vid. New sub.

Amazing results!! Very interesting!!!

Good video dude! First time I’ve seen Wagner’s HEA.

How you deal with repairs like when you need to touch up patch on wall ?

Although I was not sure about the last colour, (dark blue I think), the coverage was very impressive and the machine worked without any problems that I could see.

Soo as a decorator of about 15 years thinking of edging into spraying soon! But what i will say is can u get a just as good finish with a brush yes! Can you paint as quick as you spray yes! If you spend all that time and money masking up . As anything though spraying has its place great for certain jobs although a bad spray job is a nightmare to rectify !

Have just bought the 250 and waiting to do a property without carpets down. Can’t wait to use it now.

Excellent video , very informative, answered all my questions

...actually enjoyed watching paint dry! Fantastic achievement doing so much in such a short time. Spray finish looks great. 😎👍✅

On new plaster do you have to mist coat or do you just hit it thanks for all the info on your videos

Been watching your a channel for a while and must say very impressive. Watch the Wall panel video and the trouble you had with the paint finish.Try using Bedec aqua gloss/satin or Benjamin Moore paints. you will find the difference amazing, especially BM paints. If you want a proper acrylic then go with bedec. THE leyland paint imo are not the best

Great video and top honest video review, thank you. It's something I'm looking into now. Which Wagner did you use and do you still like it?

Hi really enjoyed the video. I have just invested on a similar unit, still to give it its maiden outing. Did you need to dilute the paint. I have a HVLP sprayer and find i do need to thin the paint or it tends to splatter.

thanks - excellent video and you covered it quite in depth

Great Video Tim 👏👌🏻👍

Just bought the Graco Max handheld sprayer 2nd hand for a cabinet job I’m doing. Hopefully will pay fir itself in terms of labour on this 1st job.slightly alarming that Graco only promise 200L out of the pump before it fails, but we’ll see.....would be interesting to check back in a year and see your thoughts on longevity.

Brilliant. It looks wonderful.

Amazing review. I had a Wagner airless years ago and did a whole house in a weekend when we moved in. However it really needs to be done when you have no carpets and clear rooms. We are moving again and need to go through the whole process again. I am thinking of spraying again. Do you find the finish better with the bigger Wagner? I like the ease of the portable Greco. Or do I need both ideally for a large house? 4 bed 1200 sq feet Ideally from a cost point of view I’d just get the bigger unit, acknowledging the paint waste

What sheen did you go with on ceiling, crown molding, baseboard and walls ?

Another great video again, I loved my sprayer complete agree with you in the prep but isn’t that in any job we do it also out ways the quality of the finish you get. The only gripe is is I would like a shorter line 1. Less paint to prime, 2. Could do smaller jobs. 3. Not in the way all the time.

Very helpful information and comments as well. Thanks for sharing! May I ask you a question please? Do you mask the walls when you spray the door jams? I understand that you are spraying them with some acrylic paint which is different from the emulsion /latex paint you are using for the interior walls and ceiling. Does it matter for the later application of the emulsion paint if that acrylic paint goes onto the wall as well around the door frames?

Thanks for the video! Thanks for the info. (Confession: I sometimes use a ... brush.). Also, looks like your unit is labeled the 170 in the US. The have cart-mounted and stand versions.

If you want to get rid from that fuzzy corner edge at 14:03, next time paint the paper tape with the color you are cutting from. It will seal the gaps and prime the paper tape, not allowing the other color (the dark blue in this case), to soak underneath it and leave those marks. Great video. Thank you. New subscriber here. :)

Excellently informative film. Thank you.

I’m doing a whole house with one of these and all paintwork and have fantastic results but you must clean it to maintain good results.ceilings come out sport on ,I’ll never want to roller another ceiling again

Hi. Do you have to thin the paint before you spray or can you use the paint straight from the tin.

Excellent run-down on doing this!

Thanks for the upload. Daft question, what do you use with the masking to protect skirting or radiators etc?

Can you spray gloss for skirting boards/door frames with it? If so, what’s the finish like?

Extremely informative video with some damn good advice! The Restoration Couple May I enquire as to the low tack masking you're using? It looks like it's superb on fresh paint surfaces!

I'm trying to compare this model to the 350m would you say your happy with this machine still?

Excellent video, can you advise what is your recommendation for choosing the paint? What kind do you recommend? Many thanks

Do you have experience using a spray for gloss work? You mention they're good for trim but it's not clear if you're just painting with a standard emulsion or not.

Great video. I'm really tempted with one if these sprayers. One thing I worry about is overspray and a plasterer mate of mine said whenever he's seen this done, white must was everywhere. Thanls

Hi I just bought this sprayer you sprayed up and down is there a need to cross coat (spray from side to side) or is up and down enough cover

Excellent video Tim. Could you do a video on masking as I’m not sure what film to use

What tape do you use as we used frig tape previously and took all the old paint off our walls?

Q1 make pre-taped masking paper. The size you need is easy enough to hand hold as the paper comes folded on the role, then you just unfold it to full width once applied.

When you are spraying woodwork, what sprayer are you using? Also what paint do you use? I imagine it needs to be water based particularly for cleaning out and ensuring a good finish? Is it easy to clean?

So you add water to thin down that dulux paint to use on the handheld sprayer?? if yes what ratio??

Really balanced review.. 10/10 😀👍

Great video! Really informative

Perfect. Last couple of years i waste so much water to clean out rollers and brushes after painting. I definitely investing now to same machine. Save time save water save paint and save money. Well need cover everything but if you compare time with brush and roller still faster i think cover everything and then just spray. Make easy everything for sure

Did the machine suck up gloss paint for the skirting board ok?

Hello. I’ve started painting newly plastered walls. The skirting, coving and doors are installed but not painted yet. Couple of questions: - for the walls already painted with roller, would you recommend sanding them before applying additional coats with sprayer - not sure why it’s better to paint the trim first and walls,ceilings second? Thx!

What dulux paint was you using? Is it the washable and tough stuff?

A very comprehensive review and I agree with much of the findings. We have the same Wagner and there's no doubt it covers the area very quickly. My only real complaint is the amount of mist which finds its way to the floor. In our case the carpet was being replaced so it didn't matter but I wasn't expecting quite so much dusting of the carpet. Personally I think you should have gone up/down and then left/right to ensure coverage. It also took us a while to figure out the by reversing the spray tip (green part) 180 degrees it allowed you to clear any blockages in the head. Overall I found the masking a bit of a drag and it's easy to miss bits. Apart from that a great video but I will only be using the sprayer for large projects.

Great video.. i take it like my graco ultramax the thicker the paint the more pressure is required so was surprised you dont knock the paint down.. also on the woodwork do you run an acrylic primer through or use zinsser 123 ?? Thanks in advance

The main problem with spraying is that if you don't back roll it, any marks that need touching up at a later date show up like hell it really flashes, new builds and ceilings is all I would use an airless on

Hi, do you have any thoughts on using an airless sprayer to paint with limewash on a lime render? The surfaces are incredibly uneven as it is in a bare rock cave house. The reason being that we are renovating a cave house in Spain & have coated all the internal walls with lime plaster.

Great video man, thanks! One question: trims which you need to mask after painting you mask with a "light masking tape". Could you advice me a specific brand and or type? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the video. Very useful. I have just bought that Wagner machine but yet to use it. Can you tell me which gun extension you said you got a cheaper version. The Wagner is £60 plus. Which one did you get please. Regards Adrian

Thanks for the info Tim, guess what I've just bought!!! 😂 rooms looking spot on!! I wish I had the drive that you do 👌 keep up the good work buddy.

Best paint sprayer for newbies is a Graco gx21hf. This will do woodwork(trim) or walls. It has a hopper but will also suck from a bucket. They now do a battery gx21hf.

How do you do your masking off pls advise..tips etc

It’s always good to back roll smooth wall especially when it comes time to do repairs and annual touch up

What paint do you use on the architrave and skirting?

I painted our 3 bedrooms last week, one room we did "egyptian cotton" in silk and one wall a similar blue to yours. Did the cotton and left for a week, went to mask up with low tack frog tape for the blue, pulled the tape off straight afterwards and it peeled all the cotton colour off! Cleaned the walls down with sugar soap before so don't know why it didn't adhere properly. I could never mask off like you did as it doesn't seem to work with dulux silk! 😔

Hi there, great video very helpful! So you think the 250M is fine for spraying trim and doors fitted? (As well as walls) not too powerful?

Interesting to watch your film and hear what you think RC. Well done on keeping things quiet for your babbies by doing the work at night. I lived in Bavaria for 5 years and by law you cannot do loud building work, including DIY, between 12 midday and 2pm which was helpful because we had our 1st baby at this time and I worked from home as a freelance assistant animator, which is quiet work anyway. After 2 homebirths and raising our 2 babes to womanhood, I taught them both to point walls in lime and even employed both of them on one pointing job. Living in the countryside my house is my business base, I'm a lime putty plasterer who doesn't like to do the painting and prefer it when the client's get a painter in. Instead of brushing on the paint I use an electric sprayer which has a small reservoir, so I wonder how much quicker the airless system will be now that I have a whole dustbin of paint as my reservoir, it could really speed up the paint work. The only painting I will do is lime washing which I also make slake & make myself, lime putty is such a versatile material, you can do your floor, walls and ceilings plus the inside and outside painting with just one product as your base and no PVA's or waterproof chemicals added. The only problem with spraying is having to mask everything off and all the waste plastic, mastic, caulk and tape that ends up in landfill when we finish which is why I use and re-use a thicker plastic sheet with tape & staples for the spraying work, so my man expense is mostly masking tape and staples As you said, all the cleaning and the rigmarole of using this system for a small space just isn't worth the hassle. Best of luck with your family, I'm glad to be a daddy, we both jumped in at the deep-end and went for it in our 30's which luckily turned out to be the best age for child rearing, any later would be a nightmare.

How many coats did you paint skirting/walls?

Great video,what’s the make and model of the hand sprayer you are using.

What masking tape are you using and does it require any special equipment to apply?

Hi bud great to watch an expert! I bought similar product to start on a renovation project. However the instructions were hard to understand and I tried to use without flushing it through first. I cannot get it to spray now and think I may have flooded it. I e since try to flush the paint through the machine without success. Any ideas how I may do this as it was a costly piece of machinery not to work? Also are you supposed to add a little water to the paint?

Have you got a link for the small handheld sprayer??

hi, what type of low tac masking tape do you use. i tried the blue and yellow frog tape and it pulled the paint off too. I had to use a brush and a carefully fixed the wall.

Question: do you know if the sprayer is suitable for water based paints? Great video, thanks. I just painted my first room, the smallest in the house but I’m definitely interested in using a sprayer now.

Where did you purchase the greycoat paint spray from please