Wagner Spraytech Wagner 0580678 Control Pro 130 Power Tank Paint Sprayer, High Efficiency Airless with Low Overspray

I purchased the Control Pro 130 to paint my kitchen cabinets. Painting has always been a chore I despise and one of my least desired. These cabinets were originally stained and I needed to paint them white. The job consisted of 31 cabinet doors (including large pantry doors) and 13 drawer fronts. My desire was to achieve the smooth orange peel like finish you can only get from a sprayer.I built a frame and hung all parts using small hooks and clothes hangers. Over the coarse of 1 1/2 days I applied 2 coats of primer and 3 coats of acrylic enamel. Both the primer and paint had a 2 hour recoat time and although it was probably not necessary I flushed the unit and hose out each time and done a good cleaning on the gun and tip. In the end my results are near professional level and I actually enjoyed using the sprayer. Fact is, other than rattle cans I had never used a paint sprayer before.This is a fantastic sprayer that I'm betting in most cases will be better than the user. You will have a hard time finding a sprayer this good and like features for this price. There is a bit of a learning curve for those of us who have never used such a device. If you are looking for a sprayer that takes zero practice and you're a pro right out of the box, don't buy it. If you paint for a living and need a sprayer for commercial use you should considerable a more expensive model. I feel the Control Pro is for home use or at least jobs where the 1 1/2 gallon paint capacity and 25 ft hose is sufficient.This sprayer can lay a lot of paint down and do it fast! You better be moving when you start spraying. Stay still or pan too slow and you will get runs. With some practice I learned the speed at which I need to pan the sprayer to get a flawless covering of paint. The key here is to apply multiple thin coats. If you think you sprayed a little to thin in one area, don't go back over it, get it on the next coat. Going back during these instances were the only times I got runs and I learned my lesson quick.Some points to know: As mentioned, it will apply paint quickly. I can see how not moving quick enough and not holding the gun at a proper distance to your work can cause additional paint usage. Also, because the paint flows from the gun's nozzle in a fan or vee shaped pattern this may by nature may tend to use more paint. Additionally, airless sprayers are advertised as having no need to thin the paint...having no need and being desirable are very different. Sure you don't have to but I thinned my paint per instructions on the can and gained considerable more control over my spraying and believe it even looked better. Also, I've seen reviews saying you can't get accesories...this is not correct. I have bought cheap 20" and 40" extensions and they work just fine. With the exception of tips, I've found that most airless spray accesories are universal. I've also purchased Wagners roller attachment, roller pads and a straight sprayer gun which will be used with my extensions for some upcoming ceiling and wall projects. I got this idea from people posting on social media having sucessfully using this sprayer with these attachments. Wagner doesn't advertise accesories but yes, they are available. As far as cleaning, I didn't have any issues. Folks, YouTube how to clean this sprayer. You're having to clean up paint which is no different cleaning it off from this sprayer than anything else. As my project progressed I learned to prime, paint and cleanout the unit while minimizing my mess. This is another area that practice will improve your results. Lastly, although it was not excessive, I did get some overspray while using this sprayer. This may have been influenced by my lack of experience. Maybe I was too far away, not sure but I suggest planning on some overspray and prepare your area where you'll be painting accordinglyOverall I am completely satisfied with this sprayer and feel it will serve me well for years to come. I found the more I used it the better I got. I'm sure this will be true for you also. This sprayer was quite enjoyable to use and changes the ball game for me and my paint projects. I will be using this for several projects coming up including staining my wooden deck (tip 313), painting 3 bedrooms both walls and ceilings, rocking chairs on the front porch...you name it. Good luck and happy painting!

I bought this sprayer because we recently moved and of course my wife wanted to paint every room in it. After watching 1 or 2 videos I considered myself good enough to just wing it with this out of the box. It came with a 515 nozzel. Nice wide pattern. I did minimal prep and used the metal overspray tool I saw in the videos....Overspray is a serious thing. I greatly underestimated the amount of over spray. I attempted to do a hallway... The mess was insane. Sprayed trim, doors, the floor, the ceiling. Wow was it bad. Stopped after just painting 3/4 of one wall. Tried again but this time prepped with tape and plastic. With proper prep and time taken to select proper nozzel for the job (I would go with a 211 or 215 for indoors but I am not a pro) and this thing dose a beautiful job! great coverage and make painting a breeze. Granted you have to invest time to prep the area properly to account for the overspray. Espcially with a finished house, but man is the look worth it. No brush marks. No roller pattern. Just nice even coating that looks like a pro did the job. Highly recommend but take time to learn to use it properly before setting this thing loose in your finished home lol.

This is a great paint sprayer for household projects. I used it to repaint my entire 20x20 garage and it worked well, but I spent more time cleaning it out than I did painting. The speed, coverage and power were all great.I will probably end up buying a version that doesn’t have an integrated tank so there’s less to clean.

I thought this worked great with sherwin williams weathershield paint and primer. Used with a much smaller tip with small fan out and samaller orifice to reduce overspray in soffit painting. I diluted the paint and used no filter and filtered no pour. I did clog several times and turned the spray tip backwards and shot it across the grass once and found remedy. It works better than I anticipated - with no problems. I thought the bucket might be a little bit of a complication over just drawing it out of the paint can with some other more expensive models-- but my instinct is that gravity feeding that paint allows this machine to do the job with a little bit weaker of a motor and perhaps the less power helped reduce overspray etc.I really liked it for painting uneven porous surfaces. Smaller tip allowed me to paint slowly as a beginner likes.It seems to be best suited for a job that is going to be worth the trouble of cleaning it up etc.I thought it worked exceptionally and quite flawlessly in my opinion - yet somewhat cumbersome process to clean up and prepare etc. But I guess that's kind of the way it is with spray painters.

If you are looking for a reasonably priced airless paint sprayer for the occasional DIY home project, keep looking and spend a little more. Firstly, having to pour the paint into the unit rather than dropping a hose into your paint means you are constantly refilling this unit. It also means that you've to deal with both the paint bucket and the awkward stationary sprayer full of paint. Secondarily, clean up is not easy with this machine because you cannot attach a hose to it. You've to empty out the bucket, then clean the bucket, then run water through the cleaned bucket and spray assembly. It takes forever and temps you to leave it not completely cleaned out, which was my downfall. Admittedly, I should have cleaned it out all the way, but I didn't. So, the hose and the spray gun became clogged and dysfunctional. I was willing to suck it up and buy a new hose and gun, but Wagner parts are not compatible with any others on the market. So your choice is to replace to the gun for more than half of the cost of the entire unit or cut your loses and buy a Graco, which is what I should have done to start with. Heed my warning fellow painter, and avoid my mistake.