Lost $150 on a paint sprayer I should have never bought

Last spring I decided to repaint my kitchen cabinets and thought a paint sprayer would save me time. I bought a cheap HVLP model for $150 and spent a whole weekend fighting with it. The paint kept clogging, the finish was uneven, and I ended up having to sand everything down and use a foam roller instead. Has anyone else had better luck with a specific brand of sprayer for furniture?

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jade_hunt486d ago

Oh man, that sucks. $150 is a decent chunk of change just to have it go wrong like that lol. I've been there too honestly, cheap sprayers are such a gamble and it always seems like they save you time until you're stuck cleaning clogs for hours. At least you got it sorted with the foam roller in the end, that's a solid backup plan for cabinets. Hope the kitchen turned out okay despite the rough start.

avery_stone956d ago

$150 for a sprayer? I gotta say, that's actually more than I'd call "cheap" for one of those. Usually the bargain bin ones are like 30-40 bucks. At 150 you're in the mid-range territory where you'd expect it to at least finish one project without dying. But yeah, the clogging nightmare is real no matter what you pay. I've had some luck thinning the paint more than the instructions say and straining it through a paint filter first. Takes an extra 10 minutes but saves you from wanting to throw the thing through a wall later. Glad the foam roller worked out though, sometimes the old school methods are just more reliable.