Wagner Spraytech 0530000B SMART Edge Power Paint Roller, Wagner Paint Stick, Automatic Power Roller Paint System

This is the second Wagner smart roller I have purchased. The first one leaks and leaks and thus useless. I thought I would give it another try and try this baby one - maybe it's better built or easier to handle - nope! Same thing. Leaks from every joint! I have tried both multiple times - thinking maybe its me. My husband, who is very good with tools - a mechanic and technician and he got the same result - leak, leak, leak. I read all the lovely reviews and watched the youtube videos that say it is so easy and so fast and so "neat". That is BS. I really do not see how that is possible at all. So I have wasted money twice. And it wasted a lot of paint. made a huge mess. Sometimes manual is just so much better. What a rip-off. I trusted the brand. I will not trust this brand ever again.

If you value your time and appreciate good tools do not purchase this. I had high hopes this would make edge-painting/cutting in easier and faster, but it was a massive failure. Essentially, this tool has a paint reservoir tube to which you attach a small roller that has a plastic disk on one side with small brushes that are supposed to get the paint right up against the trim/edge. The roller covers the area adjacent to the edge to be painted, and because the texture of the roller is like the roller you are using to paint with, you don't get a texture mismatch in the paint. That is the working theory of the tool. Here is the reality. You load reservoir by exchanging the roller assembly for a nozzle, dipping it in the paint and pulling a rod at the end of the reservoir that sucks the paint into it. That works fine, but the nozzle will drip after you remove it so you need to hold it over your paint until it drains. You might even need to rinse it out if you are only expecting to use just the paint you just loaded up. You then attach the roller assembly and use the trigger on it to suck paint out of the reservoir and into the perforated roller to initially load it. The fun started immediately when the trigger started leaking paint after a few pulls. Cleaned that up, followed the instructions to paint a W on the wall surface with the roller and run the little brushes through the paint to load them. That did not work too well, because the brushes barely picked up the paint. I also noticed that on my tool the brushes were not attached parallel to each other on the disk. Anway, try as I might, barely any paint transferred from the brushes to the surface I was painting. At that point I gave up on this tool. The icing on the cake was when I went to clean it. What..a...pain. They have an attachment to use with a garden hose to clean the roller assembly, but I live in the northeast and my garden hose was put away in November. Then, you are supposed to lubricate the seals when you store it, using Vaseline. If the tool had done what was advertised and actually painted along the trim, I'd have given it two stars. This thing simply does not work. I switched back to using my Shur-Line paint edger and a brush. The Shur-Line has its own problems and is not perfect - you have to know how to use it to get the best results without getting paint on the trim, but it does save time. It's also much easier to clean than this useless Wagner tool. I have other Wagner products that work fine, but this is a real disappointment. Do not buy this. It's poorly made and does not do the job it was intended for.

Wow this is the best tool I've got to help with my work as a apartment maintenance tec is a very lone time. I don't do reviews but I have to on this one. It made my job so fast and easy and mess free when doing baseboards, doors, trim! No mess , no stopping to roll the roller in the paint tray! Wow! 100% worth my money. I got the small one for that stuff and the big one for walls and I'm so impressed...

I have somewhat hesitant to give this 4 starts, but I"ll explain. I used this one device to trim a dining room, living room, office, bedroom, hallway, and two bathrooms. #1 you have to practice for a few minutes to get it rolling properly and the paint to evenly coat. Then you can start to do trim. It is excellent on window & door trim, anyone who argues otherwise is not using it properly. I also used it to carefully do the trim at the ceiling. If you can master this, it is much faster than cutting and people say it looks professionally done (and I didn't use tape). If you use it on your bottom wall/wood trim you MUST use tape, I'd rather use a brush on the bottom. #2 You must clean it very well. If you don't clean it well w/ hot water and thinner, it won't be re-usable. Also you'll think its empty, but it still has old paint in it, and when you add a new color, it will mix. It's a hassle to clean. Simply due to the mechanics of it, it is not designed to last a long time, and completely broke by my 3rd bathroom. I used this to paint my home and happy I did, it's just getting over how to effectively use this device. It always gives you a hard time when you first put new paint in it, but it'll work. * remember the little brushes on the side rotate so you can trim in different directions. Also buy extra paint rollers, you'll get two uses out of one.

There are a lot of pros and cons to this product. First off, it does a very nice job edging and cut several hours off my project. We painted the entire downstairs and upper hallway in our house (2500 sf) The downside is that it is almost impossible to clean. I used it once on my big project and it did great. I cleaned it as best I could and didnt see any reaidue. However, the next time I tried to use it, it was still clogged up I would highly recommend for a big project that you have time to work on but know it is more of a "single use"

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Leaking from pump handle. I had to disassemble it and found that the seal had been put in upside down. Not happy.

I am a girl and I cannot cut using a regular paintbrush. I saw this product and bought it immediately. I started with my kitchen. I cannot believe how amazingly this product works. I cut the whole kitchen in a matter of an hour. It made painting so easy! It is super easy to use and super easy to clean. I have since bought another one of theses and I have also bought the paint rolling one as well. I figured that if this product works as great as it is then the one for painting the walls must work just as well. I would definitely recommend this item to anyone who wants to save time on painting and also who wants to make is clean and easy to paint.

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Love it. Works well if you read instructions and double check YouTube etc. Quite easy to use with the wall protector. Painted a kitchen ceiling edge (including round an extractor fan) very quickly, no taping off at all. It doesn't reach right into corners leaving about an inch square which needs touching up with a brush (which I screwed up!). So maybe lesson learnt is to tape and brush the corner first and then do the edges. Rest of ceiling with a normal roller but still used this small one near the spotlights as easier control.