HomeRight C800766, C900076 Finish Max Paint Sprayer HVLP Electric Spray Gun, 1 Nozzle Sprays All, Superior Brass Tip, 3 Spray Patterns

I purchased this sprayer in order to minimize and to speed up the work of staining a 100+ foot long dogeared privacy fence.My wife and I stained the outer (nice and flat) face of our fence with rollers. We took 8 hours working together to stain the fence, and we had to work through the difficulties of rough, uneven lumber, deep grain, and quite a bit of unevenness of the vertical boards. It was miserable work, made worse by "premium" 3/8" roller covers that went flat really quickly.I knew nothing about sprayers. Therefore after reviewing the product reviews here at Amazon I made this "faith based" decision. :) And removed from consideration some cheaper models made by major vendors that had lower reviews.BOY, am I glad I bought this thing!I just completed the staining of the "bad" inner side of the same 100' fence - posts and cross members included - by myself - with the HomeRight sprayer in about 4 hours, start to finish.I experimented with spraying water before committing to solid color Behr stain for the actual job and reviewed the movable parts and adjustments. There are two adjustments: spray density (using a thumb screw on the trigger that limits the travel of the trigger); and spray pattern - vertical, horizontal or round/symmetric.My productivity on rough lumber surfaces like this unfinished fencing increased *dramatically*. The plain side of the fence drove me NUTS with a roller. The sprayer simply fills all visible voids - grain, splits and cracks - with NO extra work and NO time spent re-doing bare missed spots.The nature of painting is quite different with rollers vs. this sprayer. The roller painted side of the fence received a very thick coat that covers almost all of the grain pattern - mainly because we had to go over almost every square foot two or three times in some places. I prefer to apply multiple thin coats. The sprayer is the right tool for this - the stain went on in a feathered way with lots of transparency unless I slowed WAY down very deliberately. The spray stained parts dry quite quickly. On the other hand, I read that with a sprayer 20% or more of the paint or stain is wasted as overspray, and I think that's conservative. With a roller you waste stain with too heavy application - with a sprayer you waste stain from drift. So pick your poison.Bottom line: a sprayer (this one) is a great tool for applying *thin*, controlled thickness coats of stain or paint. The side I did so quickly *will* need a second coat. But two thin coats are much preferable to one gloppy thick coat.The drift of the over spray is significant - after a couple of hours the air intake filters on the top of the power unit (well in back of the direction of spraying) were colored the same red of the stain and will probably block up in the near future, which means that if you're using solvent based paints, you should probably use a respirator, and eye protection is a very good idea too. (watch out for eyewear lenses being covered by paint spray in some windy conditions.)The one hindrance is limited capacity. You're always filling the stupid little 800 ML (almost 1 qt) jar, and I fumbled the jar quite a few times and got paint on everything. And pouring paint from a 5 gal bucket into the jar is sloppy business. But it's a tradeoff. After several hours of using this sprayer I would *not* want to lift a 1/2 gallon - 1 gallon jar attached to the sprayer. :)Cleanup is straightforward. You have to take the jar hardware apart and wash everything - the feed tube and a protective cover for the air supply come out readily. The sprayer nozzle assembly is 4 pieces - the outer screw cover, spray turret, a plastic doohicky under that, and the brass needle nozzle - and it likewise all has to be rinsed. Then (for acrylic) run soapy water through the unit.I strongly recommend buying this sprayer if you have a big outside staining or painting job. Indoors - I'm not certain how it would work out.

I bought this sprayer because I got tired of painting my interior doors. It was taking 2-3 hours to paint a single 6-panel door both sides, two coats. After two doors I ordered this sprayer to finish the remaining nine doors. I pulled two doors down to test with and set them outside, leaned against a stand in my grass on cardboard (in case of over spray) then commenced to paint my first two doors. Gun worked excellent, took about 3-4 minutes to paint one side and one coat was sufficient. I used the higher end Behr paint which is pretty thick so I thinned it just a bit. The sprayer came with a tool to test the thickness of the paint, I'd suggest using that if you are not familiar with spray guns and paint. Saves some headaches from paint not spraying right if you suspect you are using thicker paint. The doors were dry to touch inside of 10 minutes (weather was in the 70's, partly sunny outside) so I flipped the doors and finished them. Took about 45 minutes to do what otherwise would take 4-5 hours and that included drying time and taking them down plus re-installing them.My only criticisms would be that your project has to be fairly vertical. If you can move the item being painted then it's easy, but if it's immobile like a deck or stationary surface then you'll have trouble. This sprayer can only tilt 45% off of vertical, so a deck surface would be too far horizontal but the side of a deck would be easy. Second, it covers nicely in one coat and without streaks but it does spray a lot of paint to do so. It seems to go through about 15-20% more paint when compared to the same job with a brush, though it's well worth the trade considering the time it saves. Lastly the over spray was a little much, if you engage the trigger about half way and take your time painting, you get very little over spray. If you follow the instructions and adjust for full air flow, it will cover your project much quicker but create a decent amount of over spray, so be careful if there is a bit of wind.Clean up is a breeze. My previous sprayers cost twice as much and were a pain to clean, even easy to lose small parts. This sprayer is quick to take apart the nozzle and wash. Barely anything to clean up since I peeled the small paint film away from the nozzle while I was painting. It just took a moment to fill the tank with water and spray the water out the nozzle like it was paint, then remove the nozzle and clean it.Bonus: the instructions say to use it like an air gun to clean out keyboards and computer parts. I happen to be in IT so I do use it to clean out servers and desktops. It's mush easier than lugging around an air compressor and far more powerful than a can of air.Conclusion: If this was a $200 sprayer it would still be about 4 stars but since it's closer to $60 it's definitely 5 stars. It's a bit quieter than other sprayers I have used and even has advantages over sprayers I use on my air compressor since there is no noisy compressor and the air never runs out because it's on electric plus there is no moisture buildup to cause spitting. Even with several moisture traps on my air lines, my other sprayers have issues once the heats after long spray projects. This electric sprayer is a great value and has effortless performance!

Works very well