Emulsion Spray Painting - Business Opportunity

Gains

Gains

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If anyone is handy and thinking of setting up their own business, you should consider buying airless spray equipment and going down the home improvements route.

Much better finish than brush painting, and it’s nigh on impossible to get someone. Contacted people on Teesside who haven’t even replied, tried as far as Boldon and got a reply to say they don’t travel as far as Thornaby.

Do it. You’ll clean up. And if you do, give me a shout and you can do our living room.
 
Gains said:
If anyone is handy and thinking of setting up their own business, you should consider buying airless spray equipment and going down the home improvements route.

Much better finish than brush painting, and it’s nigh on impossible to get someone. Contacted people on Teesside who haven’t even replied, tried as far as Boldon and got a reply to say they don’t travel as far as Thornaby.

Do it. You’ll clean up. And if you do, give me a shout and you can do our living room.
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I know a few decorators and they are literally booked up for months in advance. If you can get one at short notice... You should really question the quality of their work in most cases.
 
ChrisTheRed said:
I know a few decorators and they are literally booked up for months in advance. If you can get one at short notice... You should really question the quality of their work in most cases.
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Yea the joiner who built our alcove units said the guy he uses won’t be available until the summer. We’re also booked in for an extension and only got quotes from well recommended people. We’re booked in for Feb 23 😩

Home improvements is the racket to be in.
 
Gains said:
Yea the joiner who built our alcove units said the guy he uses won’t be available until the summer. We’re also booked in for an extension and only got quotes from well recommended people. We’re booked in for Feb 23 😩

Home improvements is the racket to be in.
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A licence to print money if you're good at it.

Add it to the list of things you wish you knew when you left school... Somewhere close to hairdressing/barber shop.
 
They’re great those paint sprayers. Used one in a house renovation I’d had replastered throughout.

took a couple of days to mask everything off (sockets, windows etc)… but then painted the entire house in an afternoon.

think it cost me about £80 to hire for the weekend. Money well spent!
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
They’re great those paint sprayers. Used one in a house renovation I’d had replastered throughout.

took a couple of days to mask everything off (sockets, windows etc)… but then painted the entire house in an afternoon.

think it cost me about £80 to hire for the weekend. Money well spent!
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My struggle and the sheer extortionate prices of getting one of these guys in has made me consider investing in a sprayer. I have a daft OPITO qualification in spraying and watched a few You Tube videos and it genuinely looks a doddle.
Masking and clean up take the time, there’s a good quality Graco unit for £430 and a quote I’ve got for the job (not including paint) was £700. Could make sense to buy and practice.
 
Gains said:
My struggle and the sheer extortionate prices of getting one of these guys in has made me consider investing in a sprayer. I have a daft OPITO qualification in spraying and watched a few You Tube videos and it genuinely looks a doddle.
Masking and clean up take the time, there’s a good quality Graco unit for £430 and a quote I’ve got for the job (not including paint) was £700. Could make sense to buy and practice.
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Graco products are always spot on, used a lot of there AODD pumps.
 
I hired a fella from Bristol to do mine, but he wouldn't give me his name and I had to leave the house before he arrived and not return until he had left, when I got back he hadn't done much painting he had just left strange pictures of rats and girls holding balloons all over the house. I must say I wasn't best pleased, although I did like the Massive Attack CD he left in my CD player though.
 
I sprayed our living room using a cheap Wagner 590 (£129:00) airless sprayer and have made a very good job of the finish. I was concerned it was going to leave cross-over lines when I first started but these soon dried out. The hardest part was masking the room off on my own and cleaning the equipment.

We had the room skimmed prior to painting and after waiting the necessary time for the plaster to dry out, I set about doing it. I first used bare plaster paint that was going on fine with the odd lump coming out (I had an old tub of this from a previous room). I bought a new tub that went on brilliant and didn't deposit any lumps - it only needed to be diluted slightly. I emulsioned the ceiling with a roller but sprayed all the coving and again only diluted this slightly. The lumps the sprayer deposited were soon wiped off or sanded down when dried.

The walls were painted with a Crown emulsion and we needed two 5l tins to complete it (we have two rooms knocked into one). I think I ended up with a quarter of a tin left after two coats of emulsion. I did gloss the skirting and door using a brush.

I would recommend using one of these guns but would add that it isn't any quicker due to the prep work, cleaning of the sprayer, etc. The finish is good but I am sure a painter would have achieved the same finish using a roller. I had also had a practice go on garden furniture using sprayable gloss paint.

My next job is the garden fence and this doesn't need very much if any masking.

I would also suggest using a top grade face mask to avoid breathing in any paint particles.
 
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Follow Up in case anyone interested. I bought the Graco Handheld Ultra airless sprayer, did bedroom wardrobe doors after making a spray booth in the garage out of cheap plastic sheeting from screwfix and hanging the doors on wires from the rafters.
Then moved onto our Living room alcove units and shelves the joiner built and the reason I was after a spray painter in first place.

All done now, great finish. Was a doddle really and got all the info from Youtube. Anyone considering it, buy and do it yourself, feel like I'm already in front after my outlay and got the gear to spray anything and everything from now on
 
Gains said:
My struggle and the sheer extortionate prices of getting one of these guys in has made me consider investing in a sprayer. I have a daft OPITO qualification in spraying and watched a few You Tube videos and it genuinely looks a doddle.
Masking and clean up take the time, there’s a good quality Graco unit for £430 and a quote I’ve got for the job (not including paint) was £700. Could make sense to buy and practice.
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We had our bay window sprayed last summer and you are absolutely right. Luckily it was a mate of mine who did it for cost price, but he said the most time consuming and difficult part was the clean up of the window, sanding down and masking it up. That took a full day alone whereas the painting took half a day in total.
 
Randy said:
We had our bay window sprayed last summer and you are absolutely right. Luckily it was a mate of mine who did it for cost price, but he said the most time consuming and difficult part was the clean up of the window, sanding down and masking it up. That took a full day alone whereas the painting took half a day in total.
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That is exactly how I found it. Not sure I would be willing to go through the rigmarole again - Much easier to get a roller and a brush out and just cut in.
 
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