Painted furniture

[Redhill Red]

Hi all,

After taking Philly's advice last year I bought the B&Q HVLP spray system last year due to me making a lot of painted cabinets.

To cut a long story short whilst spraying thinned down emulsion it was a disaster and was quickly put back in the box and the brushes cleaned again.

Due to renewed enthusiasm!, I got it out the box again today, but no matter what I did I could not get it to spray properly, I even tried talking to it nicely but to no effect ( so I swore at it and put it back in the box)

Please has anyone had any success spraying emulsion with it and if so how?

 

[Scrit]

Would you like to describe the problems so that someone can have a go at "debugging" the problems? Not familiar with the unit you use because I use a Wagner Industrial HVLP but if you post the symptoms maybe there's a solution.

Scrit

 

[Jake]

HVLP and emulsion paints don't mix very well by all accounts, at least until you get to three or four stage turbines.

I think it is too much to hope for from a £50 tool. Even a £400 HVLP sprayer will (according to what I've read) struggle with emulsion. Decorators tend to use (big) airless sprayers rather than HVLP for this reason.