I have painted my entire shed, all my fencing and a large area of decking in next to no time. It is extremely easy to use and cleaning when finished is really quick & easy too. I would highly recommend it. Its worth mentioning that some paints need to be diluted, just be sure you have a thin consistency and it will work a treat, best thing I’ve purchased in a long time, my entire garden was finished in a day.

Saw this a lot cheaper than argos so purchased it on amazon. I used it for fence and shed spraying. Covers well and soooo much quicker than a brush. Really messy though. I did in fact spray my tee shirt on first go as had it the wrong way round like a thicky.

I was painting 4x new trellis panels, both sides. Last one of same panel I did in garden last year, by brush, took me 4hrs for one panel. With this sprayer, I did all 4x panels, both sides, by leaning them against fence of the same colour, in 3hrs, and that included an hour of playing around with getting the mix right, after it initially became clogged.

I was using Ducksback 5yr Wood treatment. It was too thick as standard and clogged up. So I watered it down by mixing into an older empty Ducksback pot approx 1/4 of a 5ltr pot at a time, then added water equivalent to roughly two thirds of the sprayers paint carrier pot, then mixed up nicely using an old long handle screwdriver.

Unclogging was initially problematic until I realised that cleaning the black filter behind the spray nozzle was the key, that’s where it tended to clogged. Took the filter out along with the nozzle head, washed in a bucket of clean water along with other parts such as feeder tube, back on, and away it went again.

Would I recommend this sprayer – yes definitely. It wasn’t problem free but once I worked out the paint consistency it would tolerate, and how to unclog it effectively, it worked quickly and a treat.

Make sure you read the instructions. Particularly the paint types you can use. This worked amazingly well on water based Matt magnolia paint but awful on eggshell solvent based. Spitting and splattering all over the place. It is a good product for wall coverage though. Again, read the instructions on setup. I found YouTube very helpful. The cleaning meticulously is a MUST. Do not rush it. You will regret it. Tip. Strain your paint through some muslin cloth. This really does help reduce blockages and the laborious cleaning to unblock thereafte

I tried this briefly just as a test with Ronseal Fencelife+ which is quite a thick paint. Initially I tried with 10% dilution and it sprayed without any problem. I then tried undiluted and it sprayed this without any problem. I did not have to adjust any settings. Now hoping for a good dry day when I can do the complete fence. The only problem I had was when spraying clear water to clean the sprayer. I do not know how but water had entered the motor unit somehow. It tripped the house mains power. I had not applied the grease to the “O” ring so perhaps water enterer via that route. There was quite a bit of water in the electric compartment when I shook it to ensure that all water was out. Sprayer worked OK after. Just a little concerned as to how the water actually entered the motor compartment!

First, let me say that this was the first paint sprayer I have ever used after hearing bad reviews of paint sprayers in general from other people, I’m a perfectionist and I hate painting fences. I was using water-based sprayable fence paint diluted by 5-10% water (as per the instructions) onto brand-new unpainted fence panels. It is also worthy of note that I got through the paint at about twice the rate the manufacturer suggests you will on the side of the container, so make sure you buy enough.

The spraygun itself is exactly as good as I could’ve expected it to be for 50. Easy to set up, easy to use and delivers a good finish, in general. Also very easy to clean. The only slightly negative side I have for the gun is that the pot which holds the paint is quite small, so you find yourself having to stop painting quite quickly to refill the pot again, but this is only a small downside. If you want a paint sprayer to do a few fence panels a year, this has worked well for me recently. A good paint sprayer. However…

My question to you is whether you really need a paint sprayer depending on your needs and how much of a perfectionist you are.

The gun is very good at painting flat fence panels which are not rough to touch. Because the spray comes out in quite a fine mist, it is not very good at giving an even and thick finish on the rougher areas as it is on the smooth areas of wood, and in the corners and the angles of the fence panels. The paint can also tend to run quite quickly if you cover an area with too much. You will therefore find yourself having to apply a second coat in order to get a deep and even finish. You will also need to use a brush to touch up the harder to reach corner areas of the panels. And depending on how much of a perfectionist you are you will also have to spend a reasonable amount of time masking up the areas that you don’t want to end up overspraying onto. And don’t even think about using this (or probably any spraygun) to paint the fence when there’s anything above about a 5 mph wind.

In summary, if you are spraying a lot of flat fence panels where you don’t have a concern for overspray going onto your neighbours conservatory, kickboards which are of a different colour to the fence panel itself and you’re not a perfectionist about the detail of having to use a brush to get into the corners to get an even, thick-paint look then using a spray gun such as this will be right up your street because it is undoubtedly faster than doing it all by hand – and you won’t be disappointed with this model.

But if you are a perfectionist and want a very even very high quality look to your fence panels, you will probably spend just as much time masking up areas you don’t want to spray by accident and touching up the areas that the gun can’t get to very well with a brush, so you might as well just do the whole thing by brush.