Wagner Spraytech 2419329 PaintStick EZ Roller Paint Roller, Long Handle Extension Roller for Painting Interior Walls and Ceilings

I have to say this actually works. I was skeptical going in but it does make painting faster and without an unwieldy pole having to be dipped in a tray continually. Other reviews note it’s hard to clean. I’d say takes a while but not so hard. More on that in a minute. I couldn’t understand how it used more paint , as many note. I still don’t understand but it does go through more paint for a same size surface. I never had any clogging issues with the device. It works flawlessly. Cleaning: the instructions were confusing and I think one part actually written incorrectly. What I do is run the paint out back into the bucket as specified. Then I mix my dawn and water in a 5 gallon bucket. I get another bucket to run into. I take the cover off and wash it in the sink as I would would any other roller. The use the machine to run the solution from one bucket to the other. Then clear water. It takes a while but not active time for me other than washing the roller cover. My friends told me not to get it, that it didn’t work. I feel there must have been a glitchy earlier generation because this item does what it promises.

This thing is a game changer. I was excited to get a sprayer but quickly realized spraying in a house is rarely an option. So i got this roller. I get almost no drips. Like maybe 3-4 little drips 1/3 of the size of a dime if i paint an entire room! I mean thats hard to beat. And one fill of the tube will paint the majority of 15 foot of wall give or take a foot or 2. And it works flawlessly. And the special roller covers you buy for this are cheap. Like $4 each here on Amazon. No downside to this little baby. I think it is pretty straight forward to clean it afterwards. And breaks down a little if you are packing it away in a truck or car. People that give a negative review are doing something wrong or using too thin a paint or something. You do have to clean it well after every use and put Vaseline on the 2 or 3 rubber parts so they dont dry and crack. But if you do that you will paint like a pro. The only thing is you will go thru some paint. Rollers in general suck up a lot of paint and this soaks up that much more. So if you have 1 gallon and hope to paint 1 wall then you might just opt for a regular roller. But if you have 2 to 5 gallons and are painting an entire room it is an absolute necessity

This is by far the worst designed product I’ve ever bought. Not just paint product, general product. It sounds like a cool idea, but the mechanism for filling this is just like filling a syringe. You pull the plunger back to suck up paint. Except there isn’t a good seal at the end of the plunger, so now the entire length of the plunger is covered in paint and dripping as you load and start painting. Additionally, it pulls more air than it does paint. I never could fully fill the thing after having painted one full 11x14 ft bedroom with it. It’s also quite heavy which gets tiring fast. The longer I used it, the more I disliked it. Then I went to clean it and became fully enraged with it. I did the bucket of water as per instructions but when I went to take apart all the pieces to wash them individually, I got more paint on my kitchen floor than on the bedroom walls I painted. Not only did I waste all that paint, I made a huge messs. It took me twice as long to clean the product and my kitchen as it did to paint a single coat. Please, please do not waste your money on this awful thing.

This paint roller did make my project go a little faster, but I’m not convinced it’s worth the money. Here’s why: - the suction tube is sized for one gallon paint cans, so if you have a large area to cover and bought a 5-gallon bucket, you will have to transfer paint to a smaller container after the paint level decreases - it puts more paint onto the wall than you would probably use with a roller & tray, especially as you first get the hang of how much paint to dispense - paint dispenses in along strip of holes in the roller, so it can come out unevenly & may cause drips - it’s heavy so if painting is being done above shoulder level then more frequent breaks may be necessary - in order to draw paint into the handle you have to simultaneously push down and pull away from the roller, which can be an awkward & difficult movement The positives: - some time savings - clean up is easy - inexpensive - if wrapped tightly over both the roller and intake port it can be set aside overnight and used without problems the next day. Some paint may leak out but when stored roller end down nothing dried out when I had to take an overnight break on my project

I am not a professional painter. Now that that is out of the way, I don't know how anyone paints without one of these on larger jobs (even a single room). There becomes an efficiency point for using this vs. a standard roller, but i'd say anything that you are doing that is the size of a 10x10 bedroom or more, this is well worth it. The time i have saved with this little thing made it worth its weight in gold. However, its not perfect, which was expected at the price range its in. I ran into the following issues that were all rectified: - The pump loss section on its second use. It would not pull paint out of the bucket. However, after playing with it enough and leaving the machine running it eventually worked and has worked flawlessly the following 3 times i have used it. - The connection where the roller slides on to the handle tends to leak. To fix it, i just pulled the connection apart, wiped it off and put it back together. Fixed it every time it happened. This was usually when the roller was pretty saturated so i may have overloaded. Either way, its an easy fix. All in all, great machine for what its worth. Takes a bit of time to get a feel for how fast the paint loads the roller and how often you need to run the pump, but once you get it down, you will fly! I don't see this lasting 10 years, but honestly if you get 2-3 jobs out of it, its well worth the money. Lastly, cleanup sucks (as it does with most power rollers). If you do it right, you will spend 30-40 minutes or so. Small price to pay, but doing it correctly extends longevity.

Bought this, as I'm remodeling a house and had a large area for a single color. First, don't buy this for a single bedroom paint job, where you have standard 8 foot ceilings and smooth walls. It's not really worth it for that when you consider the money and time investment. I used this in a large "great" room, dining room, etc. Some walls had old paint over knockdown walls, some had new knockdown applied. This thing worked really well for my situation. The hardest part is getting it going. You need to work the paint into the roller and that will take a minute or two to get it saturated...but you have to keep rolling on the wall, even if you're not painting anything. Otherwise, you'll get bad drips. I did the vast majority of my work without a drop cloth (laminate and tile, no carpet). Once it's saturated you're good to go. Use 5 second bursts to recharge the roller with paint as it runs low. People who say this thing pumps paint too fast, obviously left the thing running the whole time and are obviously idiots. This helped a lot on the fresh knockdown walls, because it can lay the paint on pretty thick without having to roll it in the pan every other stroke. Knockdown tends to eat up paint pretty quick but I effectively covered all the surfaces in 2 coats (second coat being very quick and light, just to fill in the "holidays" as painters call them). On smooth walls, this thing flies. I used this with 5 gallon and 1 gallon cans with no issues. CLEAN UP TIPS: I got this down to science. - You basically need three 5 gallon buckets (homer pales from HD for $5, if you don't already have a couple) - Helps to be outside at a hose or spigot. - Strip paint from roller, back into paint can, as much as possible. - Fill one buck with water (IF you have access to warm water, great...I didn't) and Dawn dish soap. Stick the feed tube in there, as you would a paint can. - Pull off roller, strip parts, throw in second bucket (IF YOU'RE THROWING AWAY THE ROLLER, DON'T FORGET TO TAKE OUT THE INTERNAL PARTS) - Hang handle roller on empty 3rd bucket (or hang it on something like a fence, etc) - Run the machine. Let the soapy water flow through the machine for a solid 15 minutes (don't put them in the same bucket as suggested in other posts...you're just cycling dirty water back through for no reason) - Use second bucket to wash roller and parts while it runs. (These rollers aren't cheap....try to get a few uses out of them) - Empty bucket #1, rinse and fill with only clean water. - Run machine again and let the plain water run through for another 10 minutes. - Take the handle apart and make sure it gets cleaned well. I like to stick the end of the metal piece right on the end of hose to blast out the little holes of any dried paint. If the latex paint dries and clogs a couple of those holes, you're screwed next time. - Make sure you're only pumping clean, clear water...at that point the internals are as clean as they can get. - Pull the feed hose out of the water and let it run for a minute to pump out any water in the hose. Try to elevate the machine and use gravity to drain the hose. I like to hang it up in the garage to let it dry, with the handle in a bucket to drain. - Clearing the line of excess water is important, otherwise you'll go to use it again and you'll start with very wet paint and get a lot of runs and drips. - I like to re-start it with the roller off and the handle in a bucket. You'll see the paint flow through and push most of the water out first. Let it run in the bucket a little to make sure you're dry and then put roller on. - You WILL waste a little more paint with this set-up than with a traditional roller - be aware of that if you think you're going to be right on the edge of having enough paint. Other tips: Don't get the perforated rollers at HD - they SUCK compared to the Wagner brand rollers on Amazon and are twice the price (in-store, compared to Amazon). UPS showed up while I was rolling with an HD roller....I took it off and started over with a fresh Wagner mid-job. Just remember, you're going to need a solid 30 minutes to clean up. If you decide to let this sit and not clean it properly, you won't get another use out of it. Have some vasoline or grease or oil for the areas where the rollers connects and rotates. You'll notice they come oiled and if they go dry, this thing will squeak and be harder to roll. Yes, this thing gets heavy...surprisingly. I'm a grown man in good shape and it was heavier than expected when full of paint. A GOOD contractors pole will help alleviate some of that, even if you're not going high up. The 2-4' extendable one (solid metal interior...not a cheap broom handle type) work really well...you can control pressure with one hand and movement with the other - splits up the work.

Overall, not a bad purchase, however I don’t expect it to last very long. The pump motor is not very strong so it delivers paint primarily to the far end of the roller. Kind of like dipping half your roller in a can of paint. Although it does get paint on the wall. You just have to roll it out a bit. I suspect the bigger problem will lie in the inability to completely clean it. The only cleaning process is to put the dip tube in water or cleaner solution and pump it through the system. With the pump being so weak, water simply dribbles through the hose and out the roller tube holes. It never really gets all the paint out. I let it run for over 30 minutes and the water coming out was still smokey white from the paint. If it can’t be cleaned completely, at some point things will just stop working. Having said all that, the price is about the same as a gallon of good paint so just add it to the project cost and throw it away if it gives up the ghost. Overall it works pretty well and does make things faster not going back to the pan for paint.

https://amzn.to/4nQjXs3 I’ve done my fair share of painting, and I can honestly say the Wagner SIDEKICK Powered Roller is one of the best tools I’ve ever used. It completely took the hassle out of the job — no more bending down every two minutes to reload the roller or dripping paint all over the floor. The continuous feed system works beautifully and keeps a smooth, even coat going the whole time. It cut my painting time in half and left a professional-looking finish with minimal effort. Cleanup was surprisingly simple, and the motor is quieter than I expected. If you’re tackling a big room or even a whole house, this is 100% worth the investment. I’ll never paint the old way again. Highly recommend for anyone serious about DIY or looking to save time and frustration.