Basement Ceiling Paint Black // Hand-painted + Wagner sprayer (Learn from me: USE a ROLLER instead!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- 3 gallons and 3 days to paint 543 Sqft without renting a pro paint sprayer. Bought a Wagner Airless Sprayer on Amazon (goo.gl/12JPPM) and used hand tools instead. Total cost for all tools & materials was just around $220. Was it worth it? Nope! Toward the end, I decided to just use a roller, which applied paint quicker and thicker. Should have done that from the start!!
I'm definitely not a professional painter. If I had to do it again, I would probably rent the air compressor and spray device.
The Wagner sprayer I used was only about $70, and I will definitely use it again for other projects in the future, so it was a good investment.
Using the roller and hand brush was a cheap and easy way to go. It just took a longer time than others I know who rented a more professional sprayer.
Rent a professional airless sprayer. Will do the entire ceiling in one hour.
So expensive bro so if you don't have a big budget then make your own paint project just relax everyday just slowly paint it will finish at the end of the day you will tell to your family I am the one who make this basement paint job.Hehehehehehe
Took 10 years to paint the basement with that sprayer
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all watching....do yourself a favor and rent a Graco. i did my 1500 sqft basement in about 3 hours. i had tons of nooks and crannies cause we have a ton of hvac tubing and ducts, plumbing ect. rent a Graco or hire this out.
Thx for posting. Going through this same basement painting. This was helpful. I think Ill use a combined method. Roller and brush are much faster. I'll use sprayer for hard to reach areas.
Howdy Y'all. Looking back, I can totally see that this was not the best tool for the job. I got a deal on the sprayer, and was bound and determined to make it work. More to the point, this video is meant to show how "well" (or poorly) it works and to help the larger community decide if they would like to get one themselves. Seeing is believing! I would suggest anyone who wants to save money on renting just go with a roller - I did end up rolling a few beams toward the end. It worked much better - it spread faster and the coat was much thicker. I was still able to use it for some other minor projects (painting over a sanded-down night stand) where I wanted to avoid brush strokes as much as possible. I'm sure there's a technique out there to avoid brush strokes while still using a brush, but I'm just not very savvy with it; the sprayer made up for my inadequacies.
Yeah that large of a job calls for an airless sprayer where you can do a 6 ft section in 5 seconds. The little handheld electric spray guns are made for doing a piece of furniture, a door, etc. about as effective as a spray can, not for serious sq. ft.
I appreciate your prep work and dedication. People already said it though. That’s the wrong tool. For $200 more you could have grabbed the Graco hand held with the same cup refill system.
Wow that's like slower then rolling.
Wow .. you really did that job the hard way ?? Two or three hours with the proper sprayer
Wow that’s really slow get the magnum 30 minutes everything painted
The settings on that sprayer must have been jacked. Those things work so much better than that. I did a 50x15 underside of my deck in 3 hours. Spraying was fast and effective.
I thinned mine so little I may as well have not thinned it at all. That was a big contributing factor to the slow speed, I'm sure, but as uneducated as I was at the time of the filming, I went through with it anyway. Lessons learned the hard way.
@Oskar Dirlewanger I did not thin mine at all with my Wagner sprayer. One of the advertised features of the HVLP sprayers is that you don't need to thin most paints. The trick is finding the right paint amount setting combined with the right air-speed setting. Once you get locked-in it works very well.
That paint looks like it needs to be thinned more
A few minutes into the video and I knew the comments wouldn't disappoint...
Next time you need to rent a sprayer. 3 Hours instead of 3 days.
I learned a lot from this video, so thank you! We are undertaking a similar basement remodel, and the sound proofing for the office has us completely stumped. Can you please share what you used for that? Please? Tia.
Sorry for the really late reply! I only sound proofed one corner of the basement for my office. I used Rockwool insulation and 2 layers of 5/8" drywall on the ceiling. Instead of paint on the walls, I used cheap gray carpet from home depot to help deaden the sound. I haven't made a video about it, but it works pretty well. Hope this helps!
Wow.. must have taken 2.786 years to paint all that with a Wagner
THATS GOTTA TAKE FOREVER
You will be in the next decade before you finish that basement
2 mintues in, please tell me you went and rented a proper sprayer.
I went to Florida in September to paint the interior and exterior of my n-law’s new house. I rented the magnum 17 paint sprayer from Home Depot. It took me four 6 hour days to prime and paint a 4 bedroom home with attached garage. The house is a 1800 sq. ft. I sprayed two coats of primer, and two coats of paint; every square foot including garage. A total of 24 hours. It’s sad to witness your waste of time, material, and money!
Exactly. It was a waste of time. As I said in other comments, a roller would have been better. I'm not arguing the fact. Not every video on TH-cam has to be promotional - although at the time of filming, I didn't know better and was filming thinking that I was doing a lot while spending less. You can learn from others' mistakes. Feel free to link the sprayer you rented here.
Look me I chat the Wagner online and they told me Control models are for coloring, this is not made for huge areas. Use Flexio instead and you will get it done much faster!
Bro rent a graco hand held or an actual sprayer from a Sherwin Williams. You'd have been done in like 10 mins lol.
Use an Airless sprayer. That sprayer is trash
Settings on sprayer were wrong. My exact sprayer like that puts out too much paint sometimes and I have to turn it down.. Also if the bottle is screwed on too tight it will not spray right. Definitely not hand rolling and brushing an entire ceiling..
Well, I do screw that bottle on too tight every time. I'll go easy on it next time I use it to see if that works. Thanks for the tip. Also, this paint was pretty thick. Wondering if that had something to do with it.
I got sleepy after 30 sec
I would finish faster with a brush and roller
Well damn that looks like it took forever in o e spot with that sprayer
I have a question. What did you do about the insulation?
Did you paint it? Or just pull it down?
Hi, sorry for the late reply. The frost barrier around the walls you mean? I left that up. Still have yet to finish the basement, but the insulation around the walls is pretty important in keeping the temp regulated and condensation down in the basement so I'm going to leave that up and frame / drywall over it eventually.
I think u didn't adjust the paint output. That y the paint comes out to slow...
Hi, thank you for your comment. I'm pretty sure I did play around with the output, but it was so long ago, you could be right.
Love yr video... keep up the good work!
I feel bad cause I know people gave you a thumbs down because the sprayer is so slow. 😂 Don't worry, I didn't.
What kind of sound insulation did you use?
Is there a flow control of the sprayer? it is set too low.
Hello! Actually, the flow is all the way open. I made the mistake of not thinning the paint when I sprayed, so it came out really slowly. In retrospect, I would also recommend using a roller for the main areas and a brush or the sprayer for the hard to reach areas only. It would save a lot of time, for sure.
My God that would take 1 year of steady painting! Your arm will never be the same. Hire it out.
Brush is faster
Spray vertically, video record horizontally. FFS
Ok that looks like it will take forever
Yep, it did! Definitely suggest using a roller or renting a proper sprayer with an air compressor. I did another section using a roller, and it came out looking better and took less time. A bit more messy, but on concrete floors, it doesn't matter much.
@@realryanhomes6858 im trying to do my basement now, some research said I should use primer on wood and the rest of ceiling because it has never been painted
OMG dude .....you must have time up the whazoo
I see a red door
You could have done it faster with a 1 inch brush
4 days later........
Did you paint the vent as well?
I did. I took the vent off and painted it separately with a can of high heat paint, just to make sure it could withstand the temperature changes without flaking.
@@realryanhomes6858 Thank you so much! It's a project my husband and I want to tackle before dry walling
You’d be better off just painting it with your pinky finger. That thing is slower than brush or rollers.
Some say hes still spraying that first beam too this day.
Holy shit where do you even find a sprayer that weak.
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Abrokensword 😂😂
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That’s completely the wrongtool
I spray color out my ass faster then the Wagner sprayer lmao 😂
then = than* And yes, it is slow. A roller is faster than this sprayer. In fact, it's what I used for the back half of the ceiling with greater success.
You can roll it faster
Yes, you can. I suggest rolling instead of this sprayer. Or just rent a pro sprayer from a hardware store.
That sprayer looks painfully slow next time rent one for 75.00 a day
Indeed, it was. I suggest the same now. Or just get a roller.
That was painful to watch.
This is way too slow man that wagner sucks
Yeah.
That gun sucks
That sprayer completely sucks.
Ya that’s not the right tool dude
What kind of sound insulation did you use?
Sorry for the late response. I used rockwool insulation and 2 layers of drywall above my office area, but I haven't gotten around to finishing the rest of the basement yet. Price of materials has been too high.