Painting the Shop & Reviewing the Graco Magnum Project Painter Plus

The Art of Spraying Paint: A Lesson Learned

As I stood in my garage, surrounded by the remnants of my latest painting project, I couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. The 35x22.5 foot shop was now beautifully painted, with two coats of paint applied in just 45 minutes. But as I looked around at the sea of overspray and streaks on the walls, I knew that this was far from a perfect project.

I had done my best to prepare for the painting process, covering everything in the garage with drop cloths and taping off the doors. But despite my preparations, the sprayer seemed to have other plans. It sprayed paint everywhere, including onto the floor, walls, and even the furniture. I couldn't help but laugh at the sight of it, but deep down, I was frustrated.

I had been warned about the dangers of overspray, but I didn't think it would be a problem in my small garage. I should have known better. The sprayer's fan was too wide, and the paint seemed to spray farther than I expected. It was like a little bullet, flying through the air and leaving its mark wherever it went.

As I looked around at the mess, I realized that I needed to clean up as much of it as possible. I grabbed my trusty brush and began scrubbing away at the walls, trying to remove as much of the excess paint as I could. It was a tedious task, but someone had to do it.

One of the biggest challenges I faced was cleaning up the streaks on the wall. They were like little rivers of paint, flowing across the surface of the wall and refusing to budge. I tried using a wet cloth to wipe them away, but they only seemed to get worse. In the end, I had to resort to using a specialized cleaning solution to remove them completely.

As I worked, I couldn't help but think about how important it was to wear proper safety gear when working with paint. My goggles kept fogging up, and my eyes were burning from the fumes. It was a rookie mistake, and one that I vowed not to make again in the future.

Despite the challenges, I was determined to finish the project to the best of my ability. I carefully cleaned and sanded down the surface, making sure to remove any imperfections or bumps. It was a labor-intensive process, but it was worth it in the end.

As I stood back and admired my handiwork, I felt a sense of pride and accomplishment. The shop looked beautiful, with a smooth finish that glowed in the light. I had learned a valuable lesson about the importance of proper safety gear and careful preparation when working with paint. And although it hadn't been an easy project, it was definitely worth it.

In the end, I had to clean up at least three gallons of paint, which was lighter than when I bought it. I realized that I would have to replace the hose, as it was too stiff and not very flexible. But other than that, the sprayer worked like a dream. It was easy to use, and the results were beautiful.

As I looked around at my newly painted shop, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the experience. It had been a challenging project, but it had also taught me valuable lessons about patience, perseverance, and attention to detail. And as I walked through the garage, admiring my handiwork, I knew that it was all worth it in the end.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up cupcakes how we doing it's been a while so as you guys know I'm building at the shop I apologize for the echo got to work on that too so I haven't showed you a whole lot of the buildout because I haven't been doing it I had guys come out and run electrical put the mini split in and insulate and drywall so that's where we are now but now we're ready for paint kind of still need to prep the walls and everything need to wipe them down uh I need to cover the outlets I already put in the uh paper round the FL not worried about ceiling got to mask off the mini split So the plan is to use this guy right here this is the Magnum Project Painter Plus uh this is the first time I've ever used a paint sprayer for something this large normally I'm rolling I really want to learn more about spraying paint because I feel like it'll be faster and I feel like I can do some different projects with it so this came really highly recommended uh it's not sponsored I bought this my own mik reviews were really good on it this is a little bit more expensive than like your Wagers and stuff like that but I like the idea that you can literally just take this thing and dip it in a can of paint and start spraying so this will be kind of a unofficial review of the sprayer by a noob who's never sprayed stuff before other than like airbrushing and whatnot uh but before we get to this I am going to prep the rest of the room I also look forward to you guys telling me all the things I'm doing wrong because this is the first time I'm doing this I'm doing what makes sense to me watched a couple videos anything that I miss please let me know in the comments down below uh so I can do it better next time now let's get to work grab a little 2in blue tape uh just to kind of tape over the outlets and stuff and then we'll figure out everything else I don't think I'm going to tape off the windows the windows are going to be replaced anyway so if a little spray gets on the Windows I'm not too worried about it okay so now we got to wipe down the Walls um I picked up these sponges at Home Depot uh they have a microfiber towel on one side so I'm hoping this will work I'm just going to use a little spray bottle of water nothing fancy and I'm just going to kind of wipe down the Walls a little bit try to get that dust off there I have a big fan here that was suggested to point out of the garage so anything we stir up will blow out while we're doing it and then we got my PPE so again drywall dust is no joke guys like you don't want to breathe that in so you merely adapted the darkness I was born in the Darkness all right this is probably the part that a lot of you guys are here for so hopefully I'll put a skip to this time this is a reminder for me but a skip to this time in the video um so this is first time I just pulled it out of the box and Let's see we are supposed to make sure it's turned off plug it in all right so let's see we're off we're going to turn this knob to the lowest setting we're going to separate the two tubes so the smaller one is your drain tube and the larger one is your suction tube and we've got water in this guy let's Str this like this um we've got water in this guy and the drain stuff doesn't have anything in it then we flip this guy to Prime so up is Prime and down is spray let me turn this guy to start and then we turn it on okay lad don't do that we have to attach the sprayer to uh to the machine if you saw that it was leaking out of here so so you're going to unscrew this guy and pull it off and then we're going to screw this guy onto here once it's tight we're going to grab some pliers and just make sure that it's not going to leak and now we turn this on it's sucking up here out over there so once you're successfully drawing water through the hose and into the bucket you let that run for about 60 seconds all right got a paint so you're going to take the suction end you're going to put it into your paint so the direction this airrow is pointing is where it's going so right now it's on spray we want to switch this to unclog and we're going to lock our trigger so we can't accidentally pull it so what I've done is I put my suction into the paint and I have my dump here we're going to turn this on again while we're still in Prime and you wait till paint starts coming out of the the dumper you wait until pain is coming up deler now we already have this set to unclog but if you don't rotate this to unclog take your trigger lock off you're going to turn this down to spray now turn this on well that's not fun that might be too much well it's used now we just sprayed paint everywhere uh but you want to spray this until until paint's coming out of it and then at that time you're going to turn this back around you're going to lock your trigger guard but we should be ready to paint now so let's go check it out once that's drain in paint you're going to push this we're going to clip these together then put them in the paint make sure lock your trigger guard looks good now it's time for all of that beautiful PP one disposable has mat suit that's so I overspray on the door it was too late I already did it so I just went ahead and do the rest of it it's hot um I closed the doors and then I was just trying to get through it um I probably should have open them but I didn't um they're open now uh and then I've got some streaking over here but the streaking was because when I moved the sprayer it unplugged and I didn't realize it and went to spray it didn't have any force behind it so just so we'll have to clean that up and I found a couple other spots that were like kind of dry wall related like little Schmutz and stuff on the wall that I'll have to clean up too but man so this shop is 35 by 22 and a half and two coats of paint in 45 minutes maybe and I thought it was good with the what I put down but I Rel bit drop cloth down because overspray like it oversprayed a lot now I realized if I turned it up a little bit more I got a wider fan and it could be closer to the wall but still you see like this is little Schmutz that's not from the gun that was something that stuck to the wall even after I cleaned it so I have to come in and get rid of that I got a couple of those I got to fix the streaks but look wooo stops getting pretty and another lesson uh we eye protection the the goggles that I had they kept fogging up man I couldn't get them to not fog up and since the garage is packed I couldn't find any of my other safety glasses so my eyes are burning so make sure proper Shades kids mental note next time by the extra large hazma M Su whoops definitely an issue with overspray but that's like rookie mistake as far as I know because I just wasn't sure it was going to spray that far out although I did cover everything in here cuz I figured there' be particles in air I didn't think it would like spray that far out on the floor but like I said rookie mistake also I started to hang this thing up probably adjust this again I hung this thing out because I was kind of try to protect the garage doors but then remembered I'm replacing the garage door so I don't really give a the shop is painted so we are finished in there looks pretty good second coat uh definitely kind of smooth some stuff out kind of fix some imperfections that we went by and uh sand it down one of the main reasons that I was looking at this particular sprayer and it could be all graos but this is the one looking at is the ease of cleanup because cleaning spray guns can be so see that now and before I forget going clean this up here so from it used I'd say at least three gallons it's definitely lighter than it was when I bought it okay we turn it off I'm going to flip this back to Prime put this to the start AR position trigger Guard we're going to unscrew these two pieces so the directional piece and the scraw deal and then we take this guy that's included we screw it under our hose rinse the stuff off all right let me screw this guy off I'm not sit there more what we're going to do I take this guy screw on here and this on I let this run through here for a little bit okay so you pull this up the front this guy comes out and I'm going to take this stuff in and I'm going to scrub it with just a brush but that's a pretty easy clean up man really I'd say my biggest problem with this is the hose man it's just not very flexible I know it's new but if it's hard to unwind catches on stuff um I know you can buy other hoses for this so I'll probably just replace the hose with something a little bit more flexible and probably longer but uh cuz I wouldn't mind if I was going to do a room in the house I wouldn't mind being able to like leave it outside or outside the room and have more hose but other than that man works really well this thing works a treat I like itwhat is up cupcakes how we doing it's been a while so as you guys know I'm building at the shop I apologize for the echo got to work on that too so I haven't showed you a whole lot of the buildout because I haven't been doing it I had guys come out and run electrical put the mini split in and insulate and drywall so that's where we are now but now we're ready for paint kind of still need to prep the walls and everything need to wipe them down uh I need to cover the outlets I already put in the uh paper round the FL not worried about ceiling got to mask off the mini split So the plan is to use this guy right here this is the Magnum Project Painter Plus uh this is the first time I've ever used a paint sprayer for something this large normally I'm rolling I really want to learn more about spraying paint because I feel like it'll be faster and I feel like I can do some different projects with it so this came really highly recommended uh it's not sponsored I bought this my own mik reviews were really good on it this is a little bit more expensive than like your Wagers and stuff like that but I like the idea that you can literally just take this thing and dip it in a can of paint and start spraying so this will be kind of a unofficial review of the sprayer by a noob who's never sprayed stuff before other than like airbrushing and whatnot uh but before we get to this I am going to prep the rest of the room I also look forward to you guys telling me all the things I'm doing wrong because this is the first time I'm doing this I'm doing what makes sense to me watched a couple videos anything that I miss please let me know in the comments down below uh so I can do it better next time now let's get to work grab a little 2in blue tape uh just to kind of tape over the outlets and stuff and then we'll figure out everything else I don't think I'm going to tape off the windows the windows are going to be replaced anyway so if a little spray gets on the Windows I'm not too worried about it okay so now we got to wipe down the Walls um I picked up these sponges at Home Depot uh they have a microfiber towel on one side so I'm hoping this will work I'm just going to use a little spray bottle of water nothing fancy and I'm just going to kind of wipe down the Walls a little bit try to get that dust off there I have a big fan here that was suggested to point out of the garage so anything we stir up will blow out while we're doing it and then we got my PPE so again drywall dust is no joke guys like you don't want to breathe that in so you merely adapted the darkness I was born in the Darkness all right this is probably the part that a lot of you guys are here for so hopefully I'll put a skip to this time this is a reminder for me but a skip to this time in the video um so this is first time I just pulled it out of the box and Let's see we are supposed to make sure it's turned off plug it in all right so let's see we're off we're going to turn this knob to the lowest setting we're going to separate the two tubes so the smaller one is your drain tube and the larger one is your suction tube and we've got water in this guy let's Str this like this um we've got water in this guy and the drain stuff doesn't have anything in it then we flip this guy to Prime so up is Prime and down is spray let me turn this guy to start and then we turn it on okay lad don't do that we have to attach the sprayer to uh to the machine if you saw that it was leaking out of here so so you're going to unscrew this guy and pull it off and then we're going to screw this guy onto here once it's tight we're going to grab some pliers and just make sure that it's not going to leak and now we turn this on it's sucking up here out over there so once you're successfully drawing water through the hose and into the bucket you let that run for about 60 seconds all right got a paint so you're going to take the suction end you're going to put it into your paint so the direction this airrow is pointing is where it's going so right now it's on spray we want to switch this to unclog and we're going to lock our trigger so we can't accidentally pull it so what I've done is I put my suction into the paint and I have my dump here we're going to turn this on again while we're still in Prime and you wait till paint starts coming out of the the dumper you wait until pain is coming up deler now we already have this set to unclog but if you don't rotate this to unclog take your trigger lock off you're going to turn this down to spray now turn this on well that's not fun that might be too much well it's used now we just sprayed paint everywhere uh but you want to spray this until until paint's coming out of it and then at that time you're going to turn this back around you're going to lock your trigger guard but we should be ready to paint now so let's go check it out once that's drain in paint you're going to push this we're going to clip these together then put them in the paint make sure lock your trigger guard looks good now it's time for all of that beautiful PP one disposable has mat suit that's so I overspray on the door it was too late I already did it so I just went ahead and do the rest of it it's hot um I closed the doors and then I was just trying to get through it um I probably should have open them but I didn't um they're open now uh and then I've got some streaking over here but the streaking was because when I moved the sprayer it unplugged and I didn't realize it and went to spray it didn't have any force behind it so just so we'll have to clean that up and I found a couple other spots that were like kind of dry wall related like little Schmutz and stuff on the wall that I'll have to clean up too but man so this shop is 35 by 22 and a half and two coats of paint in 45 minutes maybe and I thought it was good with the what I put down but I Rel bit drop cloth down because overspray like it oversprayed a lot now I realized if I turned it up a little bit more I got a wider fan and it could be closer to the wall but still you see like this is little Schmutz that's not from the gun that was something that stuck to the wall even after I cleaned it so I have to come in and get rid of that I got a couple of those I got to fix the streaks but look wooo stops getting pretty and another lesson uh we eye protection the the goggles that I had they kept fogging up man I couldn't get them to not fog up and since the garage is packed I couldn't find any of my other safety glasses so my eyes are burning so make sure proper Shades kids mental note next time by the extra large hazma M Su whoops definitely an issue with overspray but that's like rookie mistake as far as I know because I just wasn't sure it was going to spray that far out although I did cover everything in here cuz I figured there' be particles in air I didn't think it would like spray that far out on the floor but like I said rookie mistake also I started to hang this thing up probably adjust this again I hung this thing out because I was kind of try to protect the garage doors but then remembered I'm replacing the garage door so I don't really give a the shop is painted so we are finished in there looks pretty good second coat uh definitely kind of smooth some stuff out kind of fix some imperfections that we went by and uh sand it down one of the main reasons that I was looking at this particular sprayer and it could be all graos but this is the one looking at is the ease of cleanup because cleaning spray guns can be so see that now and before I forget going clean this up here so from it used I'd say at least three gallons it's definitely lighter than it was when I bought it okay we turn it off I'm going to flip this back to Prime put this to the start AR position trigger Guard we're going to unscrew these two pieces so the directional piece and the scraw deal and then we take this guy that's included we screw it under our hose rinse the stuff off all right let me screw this guy off I'm not sit there more what we're going to do I take this guy screw on here and this on I let this run through here for a little bit okay so you pull this up the front this guy comes out and I'm going to take this stuff in and I'm going to scrub it with just a brush but that's a pretty easy clean up man really I'd say my biggest problem with this is the hose man it's just not very flexible I know it's new but if it's hard to unwind catches on stuff um I know you can buy other hoses for this so I'll probably just replace the hose with something a little bit more flexible and probably longer but uh cuz I wouldn't mind if I was going to do a room in the house I wouldn't mind being able to like leave it outside or outside the room and have more hose but other than that man works really well this thing works a treat I like it\n"