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Warning: I spent $180 on a 'professional' paint sprayer for my kitchen cabinets and it was a total disaster.
After three days of cleaning overspray off my floors and windows, I had to strip it all and roll it by hand anyway, so has anyone else found a sprayer that actually works for a first timer?
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ryan_hart382mo ago
Skeptical of the whole "disaster" framing honestly. A damp rag wipes off latex overspray if you catch it within like 30 minutes, and mineral spirits handles oil-based just fine. Had a buddy do his whole kitchen with a $99 Wagner from Home Depot in an afternoon with zero masking beyond some newspaper on the counters. Feels like half these horror stories come from people spraying in a gale force wind or skipping the basic prep.
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beng515mo ago
Damn that sucks, sorry you had to deal with that mess. What kind of sprayer was it, like a cheap HVLP from a big box store? Also, did you thin the paint at all or just try to spray it straight from the can? That's usually where first timers get wrecked.
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murray.pat5mo ago
I've seen that happen when the paint can sat in a cold garage before spraying, @beng51. The material gets too thick and the sprayer just sputters no matter how much you thin it later.
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taylor.jessica5mo ago
Yeah, that cold paint thing is a real killer. Read a whole forum thread once where a guy ruined a cabinet job because his shop was too cold overnight. The advice was always to warm the paint can in a bucket of warm water, not hot, for like twenty minutes before you even think about thinning. Thinning cold paint just makes a weird separated mess that never sprays right. Gotta get the base material back to room temp first or you're just fighting a losing battle.
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