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GreiginFife said:
Not much more to tell. Wagner airless sprayer, fill the bucket with a slightly thinned paint and spray the walls/ceilings in a sweeping, slightly overlapping pattern and Robert is your mother’s brother.

Did the living room (7m x 3.5m) in about an hour. Yeah, took about half an hour to mask everything up/cover the flooring but still quicker than a roller/brush approach.
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So works well if you don't need to move furniture out of the room, and you want ceiling and walls the same colour?
 
cliveb said:
So works well if you don't need to move furniture out of the room, and you want ceiling and walls the same colour?
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I’m not sure what you’re saying here.

Our walls are pebble grey, the ceiling is white. Walls were masked off with plastic sheet when the ceiling was sprayed. Ceiling was part masked but used the fine nozzle to stop over spray.

Furniture covered with plastic sheeting.
 
GreiginFife said:
I’m not sure what you’re saying here.

Our walls are pebble grey, the ceiling is white. Walls were masked off with plastic sheet when the ceiling was sprayed. Ceiling was part masked but used the fine nozzle to stop over spray.

Furniture covered with plastic sheeting.
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Ok understood. You must have some huge plastic sheeting - I wouldn't trust myself to make the joins secure enough.
The only paint spraying I've done is on cars (with a compressor) and my experience is that the overspray gets everywhere.
 
cliveb said:
Ok understood. You must have some huge plastic sheeting - I wouldn't trust myself to make the joins secure enough.
The only paint spraying I've done is on cars (with a compressor) and my experience is that the overspray gets everywhere.
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Rolls of plastic sheeting from screwfix https://www.screwfix.com/p/fortress-dust-sheet-roll-50m-x-2m/457fm

No need for many joins and even then just overlap by 20cm and tape it.

I think spraying technology has moved on. Very little over spray with an airless system and with the precision nozzle it’s like using an airbrush.
 
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Lunch time.. all walls second coated bar one.. which is just drying , painted first thing this morning before I second coated the rest .. will be finished today
 
PJ87 said:
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Lunch time.. all walls second coated bar one.. which is just drying , painted first thing this morning before I second coated the rest .. will be finished today
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All done , new units for under TV built

Everything back in place

Mother in law has some matching curtains for us and new sofas arrive in 2 weeks

Knackered
 
GreiginFife said:
I think spraying technology has moved on. Very little over spray with an airless system and with the precision nozzle it’s like using an airbrush.
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I use a Wagner spray gun for my garden fence (a lot of fence) and, yes, its so quick.
But.. i have to follow through with a quick slap up and down with a brush because of the runs (cue the bad jokes 🙄)
Anyone suggest the model being discussed?
 
Sid Rixon IV said:
I use a Wagner spray gun for my garden fence (a lot of fence) and, yes, its so quick.
But.. i have to follow through with a quick slap up and down with a brush because of the runs (cue the bad jokes 🙄)
Anyone suggest the model being discussed?
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If it’s running then your feed rate is too low or your material is too thin. Or you could be moving too slowly.

Basically you’re getting too much paint in one place.
 
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