Refurbished / Reconditioned Airless Paint Sprayer by Wagner

If you’re looking to tackle any painting job beyond painting a smooth drywall/sheetrock surface, you are probably already considering an airless paint sprayer.  Airless paint sprayers offer numerous advantages over brushes and rollers for large irregular surfaces like open-joist ceilings, wood decks & fences, popcorn/stipple ceilings, and more.  Airless sprayers provide even coverage, let the paint get to where brushes and rollers cannot reach, and most importantly, they save a lot of time.

Airless paint sprayers use a compressor to force paint through a hoze to a nozzle that atomizes the paint into a fine mist.  Most airless sprayers accept interchangeable tips that provide different flow rates and spray fan widths.  Paint cans will usually include instructions on what nozzle width should be used  (Note: caution is in order when using an airless sprayer - they have enough power to cause harm if the stream hits your skin and close range)

Some airless sprayers have a paint resevoir that is coupled to the handle, trigger and nozzle.  This type of sprayer can be useful for very small jobs, but isn’t good for large projects, or those where you are working over your head (such as when you paint a ceiling).  Inverting these units can cause them to lose pressure, and they generally require frequent refills due to the small paint resevoir.

Amazon sells a refurbished version of the Wagner Spray Tech II 2,750 PSI Paint Crew Sprayer.  This paint sprayer is the most versatile paint spayers we’ve found, and retails for almost $200 at Home Depot.  Amazon’s price is a steal, and this sprayer has everything most homeowners will need.  It’s advantages include:

• 2 gallon hopper located on the ground (few refills, you don’t hold it over your head)
• 25 foot hose
• interchangeable tips
• 2750 PSI pump to spray even thick latex paint

What do you think?  Do you have this airless sprayer?  What do you think of it?  Do you own another model you’ve had good success with?