(05-22-2020, 11:41 AM)Benton Wrote: It's easier but I tend to go through so much more material. I'm staining my deck and I used half a can with a roller and got more coverage than the whole can with the sprayer. Of course, I've got a cheap sprayer so that may be part of it.

(05-23-2020, 10:27 AM)jfkbengals Wrote: No, sprayers are less efficient in material consumption.  Especially airless sprayers.  They throw paint at the object.

(05-22-2020, 09:45 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Painting lattice with a brush is a huge pain in the ass.  It either takes forever or half the paint drips off.

How do you advertise?  My dad did all these little jobs around my parents house until he died.  After that my mom had a hard time finding anyone to do just simple jobs like that.

Instead of just refurbishing mailboxes you should design and build mailboxes with flower planters around the base.

(05-30-2020, 03:43 PM)grampahol Wrote: Highly depends on the type of equipment used. I did spraying for a living for several years. Airless sprayers are really meant for speed and coverage as quickly as possible whereas a conventional pnumatic sprayer is for finer finishing. The technology has moved quite a bit in spraying. The last job I worked in for a corporate job they purchased a high dollar HVLP system.  The amount of overspray was drastically reduced. I went from spraying over 70 gallons per week to under 10 overnight with almost zero paint loss with a really nice finish. .  You can still buy the conventional systems and a lot of people still do including myself, but if I were doing a high volume of spraying I'd definitely invest in a good quality HVLP sprayer. The cheap HVLP guns are really no better than the older conventional guns. In fact some are merely relabled as HVLP when they're just cheap conventionals.  I own 2, both Harbor Freight models. 1 is allegedly an HVLP gun and the other just a conventional with a large bored spray cap for shooting thicker paint. I'd never think of painting a car finish with either one. At least I'd go find an old DeBelvis in a pawn shop. I owned a few really good DeBelvis models when I painted cars and trucks. 

(05-30-2020, 07:27 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: I have that same one.  Used it to do 3/4 of the fence around our pool and the back deck in about the time that 4 people took for the last 1/4 and a small wooden retaining wall by hand.  But they proportionately used about 50-60% of the amount of product I used per square foot.

(05-30-2020, 07:43 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: One of the most important lessons that I've learned in life is;  You can always make more money, but you can never create more time.

(05-30-2020, 07:27 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: I have that same one.  Used it to do 3/4 of the fence around our pool and the back deck in about the time that 4 people took for the last 1/4 and a small wooden retaining wall by hand.  But they proportionately used about 50-60% of the amount of product I used per square foot.

(06-05-2020, 06:51 PM)grampahol Wrote:
Pssst..you gotta learn how to thin the paint down. It'll probably clog shooting straight exterior latex and if it doesn't you'll go through too much paint. I know..they tell you to never thin it, but I do and it works out pretty well.. Those HF guns are finicky as hell..and use line filters so you're not mixing compressor oil  and water with latex paint.  I use two inexpensive filters. One on the compressor side of the air line and one connected to the paint gun itself.. And don't forget to drain the compressor regularly. An exploding compressor tank is just no fun at least when it explodes at you..
I use the plastic HF filters, but they're cheap so don't try to reuse them when they start to clog up. Just toss em out and use new filters.. 
Thinking about filters mine are pretty much trash already. Time to go HFing.. Remember "Let's go Krogering?" Let's go Harbor Freighting... Yeah..doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it? Lol