Today I rented an Airless Paint Sprayer to paint my walls with primer. The primer will seal the sheetrock and make my paint go farther when I put color on the walls. It was a mess though. We got the sprayer around 10:30 but had problems getting it to spray right. Finally, after going over to the hardware store and making a few calls dad got a big clog out of the tube and the sprayer started working right. That was around 1:30 or 2. Fortunately they reset our rental time to 2, so we have a full 24 hours to use it. The sprayer worked pretty well after that, we were able to get all the walls in the whole house primed in about 2-2.5 hours. It was one big white cloud inside the house though, even with the windows open. I had paint on my eyelashes and up my nose. Tomorrow I'll start on the ceilings. Now that we've gotten the sprayer figured out it should be a breeze, although I think I'll end up covered in paint again.
This is just before painting, I used paper to mask off around the windows and floor.
The many patches I made.
We added some water to the primer to thin it a little thinking that would help the sprayer, but nothing helps when it's a big, fat clog in the tube. The pump for the sprayer is the dark red thing by dad's hand.
This is the spray gun. It actually looks pretty clean here.
Me in the paint cloud. The flash makes it look a little worse than it is.
I'll take some pics of the finished walls but they aren't very exciting, they're white.
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