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Right then..dont ask why but my manager got a couple in today and asked me to give them a whirl..my reaction was a mixture of laughter and exited expectation.. 
Setting up, didnt take long and being a bloke I didnt bother with the instructions! so it might have taken a bit less time overall if I had bothered!
Setting up took about ten mins.
The paint...I thought it would be thin, it isnt, but its 'sticky' if you know what I mean.
I dampened the polymide roller sleeve supplied first..turned it on and away I went.
To be honest I was surpirsed, it does deleiver the paint to the roller head quite effectively.
Rolled an area of Jadey greeney blue wall with natural hessian colour, if covered well (not in one coat though) ...first problem, it skids, slowly.
The wall started to look like id brushed it with a six inch!..then i realised its down the the application of paint, if you put too much on it will skid...you have to put it on then roll it out.
The brush they supply is triangular and the handle is a weird shape..you will struggle if your used to traditional brushes..that said it went down the corners nicely.
Atfer a few of us had had a go it came to the cleaning out..self cleaning apparently....you fill a tank with 5 litres of water, the machine sucks the remaining paint out and then reverses and pumps clean water back through...the roller was left half full of thin paint..so i did it again and again..in the end I still had to wash the roller out under a tap.
The machine was left fairly clean though.
The paint at thirty quid a pop is a little more than it costs in the shops so id suggests saving the cans and using normal stuff thinned out a little.
In summary...
Hmmm...an expensive bit of kit for the DIYer..it sort of works but not quite as well as Dulux claim, the cutting in brush is far to small..youll need a traditional three inch.
Limited to one type of sleeve, so its no good over very rough walls..and IMO the sleeve is a bit to long for smooth walls.
The choice of colours is always going to be limited as well.
And you have to replace the main paint suction pipe that goes into the paint after every ten gallons of paint used.
If you turn up with one of these on site expect some serious stick!
Too expensive for the DIYer..to 'DIY' for pro painters
£50 in the sales by christmas.
Setting up, didnt take long and being a bloke I didnt bother with the instructions! so it might have taken a bit less time overall if I had bothered!
Setting up took about ten mins.
The paint...I thought it would be thin, it isnt, but its 'sticky' if you know what I mean.
I dampened the polymide roller sleeve supplied first..turned it on and away I went.
To be honest I was surpirsed, it does deleiver the paint to the roller head quite effectively.
Rolled an area of Jadey greeney blue wall with natural hessian colour, if covered well (not in one coat though) ...first problem, it skids, slowly.
The wall started to look like id brushed it with a six inch!..then i realised its down the the application of paint, if you put too much on it will skid...you have to put it on then roll it out.
The brush they supply is triangular and the handle is a weird shape..you will struggle if your used to traditional brushes..that said it went down the corners nicely.
Atfer a few of us had had a go it came to the cleaning out..self cleaning apparently....you fill a tank with 5 litres of water, the machine sucks the remaining paint out and then reverses and pumps clean water back through...the roller was left half full of thin paint..so i did it again and again..in the end I still had to wash the roller out under a tap.
The machine was left fairly clean though.
The paint at thirty quid a pop is a little more than it costs in the shops so id suggests saving the cans and using normal stuff thinned out a little.
In summary...
Hmmm...an expensive bit of kit for the DIYer..it sort of works but not quite as well as Dulux claim, the cutting in brush is far to small..youll need a traditional three inch.
Limited to one type of sleeve, so its no good over very rough walls..and IMO the sleeve is a bit to long for smooth walls.
The choice of colours is always going to be limited as well.
And you have to replace the main paint suction pipe that goes into the paint after every ten gallons of paint used.
If you turn up with one of these on site expect some serious stick!
Too expensive for the DIYer..to 'DIY' for pro painters
£50 in the sales by christmas.
