I am thinking about purchasing a paint sprayer but not necessarily to
spray lacquer on furniture. I am looking to use it to do things like
sealing my deck or painting my shutters or even painting the inside of
my house. I have often thought about this whenever I seal my deck but
after this year, I am sick of squatting and using a brush to seal all
of those dam* stiles. Recently, I was over a friend's house who was
getting the entire inside of his house painted and the guys he hired
used an airless gun and they were done so fast that it made your head
spin.
Now I am not stupid and know that I will probably NEVER get good
enough not to tape like those guys did (I still don't know how the
heck they did that) but, WOW!! Painting is the one chore that I hate
over and above any other, especially the cleaning up afterward. The
sprayer those guys had hooked up to an outside hose and they
circulated the water using a five-gallon bucket and the entire thing
was cleaned in less than ten minutes. Incredible.
There is no way that I need the size of machine those guys had but
then I won't be painting every day with the thing: I only need to use
it several times a year.
The wife is constantly complaining that she wants rooms painted and I
always push it off until divorce is almost imminent. Then I do it
with a chip on my shoulder and life ain't so fun for a while. But
that thing make painting seem almost fun...almost. I know there will
be a learning curve and I will need to practice on things like the
garage or storage room before I ever attempt to use it in the living
room but I am willing to try!
Any suggestions? People are telling me to look at Graco.