Hi everyone, welcome to this video
where i'm going to show you how to use the Wagner control pro 150 airless sprayer. I'm
also going to tell you what I like about it and what I don't like about it and a couple of handy
hints for using it to make it a little bit easier. I've had this unit for about 18 months
now. I've painted three bedrooms with it, I've done a fence and I've painted
the whole outside of my house. Overall I love it, it does have a few
limitations though especially when you use it inside and it's definitely much easier to use
and in a large open space, especially outside. Just painting the outside of the house made it
worth the purchase price alone, it was absolutely fantastic, it took me probably four, about four
half day sessions to paint a 200 plus square meter house so that was absolutely amazing and
it saved thousands for a professional to do it. Inside I found it really useful
to use as well especially on ceilings it is quite a bit more difficult
to use in a confined space as you get a lot of atomized paint floating around quite quickly
and when you don't have very good ventilation because you've got your windows
and doors and things masked up it's quite difficult when the room gets filled
with a cloud of atomized paint. And it's also quite easy to trip over it when it's in the middle
of the room and you're and you're looking at a ceiling and trying to focus on what you're doing
so handy hint is to either put it in another room next door or outside the door or in a corner and
and work your way through the room away from it. So the actual unit itself has the hopper we've
got the lid with the spray tip stored on top and space for another one here if you buy a
second one or you've got a different size. Inside we have the hose, you can see
the hose is not that easy to clean. It is seven and a half meters long so
there's plenty of length on it if you want to put the sprayer away from you. We've got the gun head and the nozzle tip and all the pieces of the gun which I'll put together in a minute
and show you how they go together. But first we're going to get this room ready
for painting. I'm going to paint all of the walls and the ceiling apart from this one by
the window because that is going to be tiled, so no need to spray that although you might see me
spray a few pieces on it just testing the gun or clearing the nozzle things like that. So I've got some stuff here ready to mask up the
room so i'll do that and then I will assemble the sprayer and run you through the setup and do
a bit of a demonstration on this whole room. All right guys we're all
masked up and ready to go. I haven't done a very good job on that
window there just because I'm not actually going to be painting very close to
it so it doesn't matter that much. I've just covered these power points and the
plumbing points purely because I don't want dust blowing out of them when I spray close to
them, not really because I care about them getting paint on them. I've just sealed up the door as
well as you can see I've done that a lot tidier so that no paint gets on the door frame which I've
actually already painted but it's also going to get really hot in here soon because everything's
sealed up so let's have a look at the sprayer now. I've also got a stirrer, spatula,
two buckets of clean water, the paint which is Dulux one step prep and
now we're ready to put the sprayer together I've plugged it all in, I've kept it in
that place right there because there's a drain hole underneath and I don't want to step
in it so if that's there I won't be able to. I've run the power in from outside
hopefully I don't trip over that and there's another drain hole over here which
I've already stepped into so hopefully I don't do that again when i'm looking up and now let's
put the sprayer together and see how it goes. Alright so the gun's attached, the hose is
attached, as you can see that hose is quite difficult to wrestle with so I kind of wish they
had made a more flexible hose but never mind. The hopper is clean so first thing
to do is chuck in some clean water. I'm gonna try and do this with
one hand and we'll make sure that everything's clear the hose is clear and the
gun's working, so just a little bit like that. Then we'll switch this to prime which is that
one there and we'll turn it on and it's going to pump some water out through here also give this
button here a push just to make sure it's clear. So everything's working on that
side and now we're going to see we're going to clear out the gun and
the hose and make sure that's all good so we'll switch it over to spray and we'll point
this one at the, actually what I should have done is I should do this with the nozzle
off so we'll just take that off Just because if there's anything
in the hose we want it to come out and not get stuck in the back of the nozzle
before we start painting so we'll try that now. So that's all nice and clear, i'm
just going to turn it off because there's no water in it so it's going
to keep trying to pump stuff through. I'm just going to put this back
together and get the nozzle back on. All right everything's back together and
we're just going to do a quick spray to test, I better going to turn it on first. Alright everything's back together this time
properly, the nozzle wasn't on properly so that's why there's water spraying out so we'll turn it
on and we'll give it a quick spray to make sure. This is good, there's water spraying everywhere
so that's good just going to turn it off. So now we just need to tip this water back out. and obviously the hose is still full of
water but I'm going to leave that in there. I'm going to put some paint in the hopper
and push it through with the paint instead So I'm just going to get that
ready and I'll show you in a sec Alright the hopper is full, I don't think I'll
use that much paint but it needs quite a bit in in there to actually be able to push it out of
the nozzle so we can always pour it out later The first thing to do, I'm actually
going to water this down a little bit but I'll use the water that's in the motor
as well as a little bit out of the bucket. I'm going to pour that in there now and then
we'll do the prime function again and you'll see the paint cycles through the hose there. Alright it's mostly mixed in it would have been a bit easier to do with two
hands but that's all good. I'll get this out and we're pretty much ready
to paint we just need to chuck the lid on Switch this over to spray and then we're going
to clear out that excess water out of this nozzle so I'm going to turn that on and do that we're going to spray this directly into
this bucket which is now the waste bucket So I'm just going to dunk it straight in the water and spray and hopefully it
doesn't make too much mess Still more in there So you see when that water went cloudy
the paint started coming through So I'm just going to do a little bit
more because it'll be milky water still and then we'll give it a quick test on
the wall that I'm not going to be painting Alight let's see if it's ready to go That looks good. The only thing I forgot to mention before is
another limitation of this when trying to do quite fine work that you need a good finish for
is this gun tends to, the paint tends to pool on the nozzle there and as soon as you pull
the trigger you get the splatter like this. I actually swapped this unit for
another one to see if it would be better, I took it back and returned it
but this one does the same thing as well so you just have to carry a rag with you and
give that nozzle a wipe every now and then. Most of those actually dry quite
nicely and you won't see it but like those ones won't but mostly it's
okay but if you keep the rag with you it tends to keep the nozzle a
bit cleaner and it won't spit So now I'm going to put the respirator on I am going to get covered in paint
and I won't be wearing a face mask or something over my eyes because I find that
once I do the paint starts falling down from where it doesn't attach to the ceiling and
covers the glasses anyway so you can't see. So I'm going to set the camera up now and paint
this room in one hit. apologies if you can't see it all it's kind of hard to get a camera angle
in this small room without missing some of it so i'm not going to be able to stop and adjust the
camera once I start it's just too hard but once i'm finished I'll show you the cleanup process
as well and what the finished product looks like Alright guys the room is done just opened that
window to get some air in here because it's full of atomized paint and I'm struggling to see where
any other patches that I've missed but I think the overall coat is pretty good. It's just a primer after all this side
here's a little bit average just because that's where the shower's going so
you won't be able to see it anyway. But this wall is pretty good, ceiling is pretty
good I think, there's a couple of little patches in the plaster that I didn't
do perfectly there's a tiny little hole down there so we'll have
to fix that up before we do top coats but right now we need to clean this up
so that the paint doesn't dry on it. Best thing to do I find is to either wrap
this, the nozzle and gun up in glad wrap or plastic or something like that if
you want to do a second coat later on I don't so I just dump it straight in the water
here for now and I'm going to go outside for a couple of minutes to wait for this paint to
clear and then we'll come back in and clean up Alright guys the dust has cleared a little bit
so first of all we need to clear out the hopper Pour the excess paint back into here
although I think it was pretty much empty Alright that is much easier with the brush but now we're gonna pour some
cold water, clean water into here and give it a good clean You can see how fast the paint dries on it so
it's kind of important to not leave it too long Okay now we need to clean the
rest of the paint out of the hose so to do that we're going to use the
water in there to push it through Have to get our paint tin back I'm going to take the nozzle off If I can get it off And we're going to squirt the rest of that
clean paint back through into here and as soon as we see water come through then we're
going to stop and we'll spray that elsewhere So that's water coming through
there, there's still quite a bit of paint in it but it's very watery
so we're just going to stop that there Rid of that one Now we're just going to filter some
more of this water through to get any a bit more of the paint out Alright now it's just
sucking through that stuff so that's a waste of time so we'll just pour that out and get as much of this paint out as possible You can also take this filter out now because
that actually holds a whole lot of paint in there chuck that in our bucket too Actually I'll take those out for a sec I'm just going to pour this one
out so we've got some more space Now I can put some clean
water straight into our hopper and get the rest of this paint out Alright now we've got some cleaner water
in here we can run it through the hose Into the right bucket this time So it's running a bit clearer through there, this stuff's a little bit dirty so I'm
going to pour it out and do it again. Basically just keep doing it until the water that comes out of here is as clean
as the water that's in there So that's that's almost clear
I'll finish that off in a sec. Also just take the gun off, take all
those pieces out, take the filter out, make sure you clean all that because otherwise
it will be useless next time and yeah that's it. So as you can see the paint sprayer
itself works really well and I can paint an entire room including
the ceiling in about 10 minutes There are limitations though as you
saw, like you have to mask everything There's a lot of atomized paint in the air so
it's hard to see and you also have the slight bit of paint splatter so that can affect if you're
trying to do a top coat or something like that It's not an issue outside at all if you're doing
a fence or exterior of a house you never notice it and you can also see the cleanup process is a
bit tricky and takes a little bit of time so it's really hard to justify using this sprayer for
a small job so it might even be worth getting one of the smaller Wagner hand sprayers as well
just to supplement this one for small jobs But overall I love the sprayer it was worth
every penny especially like I said just for doing the exterior of the house it saved me
thousands of dollars and didn't take that long so I definitely recommend it for anyone looking
to do a bit of their own painting at home. As always if you liked this video
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