Editorial Product Review:Item Description:Model #990 Quick Touch Electric Power Roller Pro, Contains Electric Power 120V, 1 Or 5 Gallon Bucket Compatible, Variable Speed 6-16 OZ/Minute, Dual Function Finger Grip Paint Flow Control, 9' Roller, 18' Extension, Splatter Shield, Can Lid, Trim Pad, Corner Pad, 5 Gallon Adapter, 16' Hose, Paint Up To 53' Per Minute.
Amazon.com Item Description:With plenty of power for taking on the biggest roll-on paint projects, this power roller system gets the job done fast. Complete with everything needed to finish both indoor and outdoor painting projects, this power painter applies latex and oil-based paints to walls, ceilings, fences, decks and more. The unit plugs into standard household outlets and will apply one gallon of paint in ten minutes, painting up to 53 square feet per minute. The 16-foot hose sucks paint directly from one- or five-gallon paint cans that hook up easy with handy adapters. Variable speed control from 6 to 16 ounces per minute ensures even painting on surfaces large and small. The included trim and corner pads mean less time-consuming tape-up before the painting can be done. An 18-inch extension and 16-foot hose make it easy to reach ceilings get those far corners without all the back and forth to the paint tray.
--Brian D. OlsonWhat's in the Box Electric power roller, 9-inch roller cover, 16-foot hose, 18-inch extension, trim pad, corner pad, 5-gallon adapter, spatter shield, and can lid
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It works good, till it breaks..
I actually bought this to help paint the stucco exterior of my house. Got one wall done and started down another and "snap snap.." You could hear the motor freewheeling. I was using a 5gal bucket at the time and deduced a paint glob from the top drying a little got sucked up in it. As I just got the thing from the hardware store I exchanged it and filtered all the rest of the paint into 1 gal cans and it did the job. Saved a ton of time, I'll give it that. Cleaned it out real good and put it away.
A few weeks later I went to do an inside paint job. Stuck a brand new gallon of paint in and as soon as it started pumping paint up the hose to the attachments "SNAP!" then freewheeling motor, same as the first one. This time I took it all apart after flushing water through it. There was a tiny chunk of hardened paint that killed it. The way this thing pumps is using rollers against the plastic tubing to push the paint through. ANY obstruction will stop the rollers. There's plastic gearing, of course, and the real kicker is the main drive rod for the "pump" is a 1/4" plastic rod. This is the weak point that broke. Imagine using a plastic toy wrench to tighten bolts with, that's what this basically amounts to.
Unless you're gonna buy this to use on one big job and be done with it I wouldn't ever suggest using this thing. If you already have one that hasn't broke yet, make sure you run TONS of water through it while it's running to clean it. This should flush any paint out of the pump itself. That, and filter all your paint to get and globs out. I'm trying to epoxy the "pump" back together on mine to see if I can get a little more use out of it. For the time it saved me on the stucco I got my money's worth, but it's still very cheaply made.
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What's your painting "style?"
Whether or not you will like this product depends almost entirely on what you're painting how you view painting.
IF, like my husband, you want to get a lot of paint on a lot of walls quickly, so you can mark that task off of your list, this will become an indispensable weapon in your "get-it-done" arsenal, and it probably won't be as huge a concern for you that you get every single last molecule of paint out of the machine. (My husband has gone through two of these in older models)
IF, like me, you are looking for a perfect finish coat, and you are, like me, annoyingly meticulous about your tidiness, you will find yourself moving the roller slowly enough to prevent splattering and to perfect the coverage, leaving you holding the weight of the roller, hose and a quart of paint (over your head if you are doing a ceiling) for a long, exhausting time.
HAVING SAID THAT, our rooms are big, and I will use it over and over again for my new-construction prime coat in whole rooms. Even a thick, good quality roller has me dipping about every four square feet, with the heaviness of our interior wall texture. I will also use it when painting a lot of wall area a single color. I am just not tough enough to use it for ceilings.
Being 5'3", I really appreciate the LONG HOSE. It eliminates any need for a battery-powered unit, just to deal with changing batteries. Park the thing by the closest outlet and go.
EXTENSION TUBE: It greatly enhances my puny wingspan, so I don't have to reposition the ladder and everything else nearly so often.
EDGER: I was disappointed in the surface area of the edger. Flocked edgers like those tend to push the paint more than depositing it on the wall anyway, but with no more surface area than has available, I eventually just gave up on the drooling mess and threw it in a bucket of soapy water until I could finish.
CORNER TOOL: The corner tool was not as frustrating as the edger, largely because the motion used to paint the corners is already up-and-down, and will hook up the drips by default. However, because I already have a brush in my hand for cutting-in the ceiling, it seems like a waste of time to load the tool for four corners and clean the bugger later.
PAINT SHIELD: Don't go without it. If your pressure on the roller is not perfectly even, (it won't be) the roller joint will gap and drip intermittently. This item realy helps.
The claim that you can paint 53 square feet per minute is a little deceiving. If you just turn on the paint flow and go, at virtually any speed, you will find yourself in a drooly mess. The roller core is HUGELY improved from the versions previous, but it still will not provide consistent distribution throughout the roller, so you will still be back-rolling to even out the coverage.
The extensive cleaning was completely expected, so I was not upset by it. The claim that you can run the paint back into the can using the motor is also misleading. (It does not run backwards into the can, you have to run it through the paint hose.) You don't want to run the pump dry, so you have to hook it up to water to do it, and it isn't hard to figure out that you will be running water into the can in very short order. It may have reduced waste slightly, but hardly worth promoting the idea. I very much appreciate the quick-clean hose attachment. You just hook up a garden hose and it runs out both directions until the water runs clear. You can't skip the soap phase, but for rinsing, it is perfect.
If you purchase this product with realistic goals, you will be pleased with it. If you would like to think of this as a magic wand that will take the work out of painting and deliver a home-magazine-award-winning finish, you will be bitterly disappointed. Painting is work. The question is in how you want to distribute your energy doing it.
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SLOWER than if just using rollers!
I never could get a good paint flow despite trying every "troubleshooting" tip. Even called Wagner for help. After an hour of struggling with setup and "fixes," decided to use it despite the uneven paint flow. Took just as long (or longer) than with a roller.
At the end, clean up was even more ridiculous. Decided to call it a day and threw the entire unit away. Will never buy another Wagner product.
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This is a great power roller!!
The power roller works great! I haven't used the pads yet. I like how easy it is to control the amount of paint, plus that I could use it with 5 gal. containers. I didn't have any problems with the roller nap on the walls, but I also made sure the roller was well primed. I like this so much, I am buying one for my dad.