HomeRight Super Finish Max HVLP Paint Sprayer - 450 Watts, Model# C800971.M

Bought this sprayer to paint my kitchen cabinets. I have used expensive sprayers in the past, but just didn't want to pay so much to paint my own cabinets. This sprayer does very well. I used Sherwin Williams gallery series primer and paint on these cabinets and doors using the 1.5 tip for paint and the 2.0 for primer, although I think the 1.5 will do both. Lays out a nice job with a little practice. I ordered a 2nd canister so I can have one for the paint and one for the primer. Sprayer cleans up easily. All in all, a good sprayer for probably most any job. UPDATE: After quite a bit of use it got to where it was spraying really bad. The needle that moves back and forth with the trigger pull was moving very slowly and was getting partially stuck. I took the side of the gun off, which is held on by like 4 screws and pulled the needle out. There is a plastic piece it passes through that will unthread. It was getting bound up on that. I had used it to spray some urethane and I don't think I got it completely clean. It was kind of gummy. I cleaned it out good and put a small bit of grease in that plastic part and now it sprays as it always did. So if you buy one and it starts to have a similar issue, try that first. It's pretty simple and only takes like 5 minutes.

I am a small handyman/remodel contractor and this sprayer has been my most profitable tool so far. And It is now cheaper than the first one I bought. The sprayer is easy to use and the results are professional. I've painted dozens of cabinets, doors, hundreds of feet of baseboard and trim. I've sprayed stain and poly without issues (I do recommend getting the additional spray tips that are available for a finer spray when staining). Paint clean-up is always a pain but overall this sprayer is easy to clean. All the important parts disassemble for cleaning. During use, you will need to wipe the spray tip because paint can build up. No big deal. I haven't seen any sprayers that don't have this issue. I bough my first super finish max sprayer in 2020 and used it until my own laziness trashed the sprayer and now I am buying the same sprayer to replace it. All I will say is...Clean your tools after each use!! Final note...for best results, learn to thin and strain your paint/stain materials properly. Enjoy!

Decent sprayer for the money, but definitely limited to small jobs when it comes to painting. Staining, varnishing, sealing may produce different/better results than what I experienced with paint so my review is limited in scope. This sprayer doesn't produce enough pressure to spray most latex water-based paints without thinning them, even if you have the right sized tips according to the paint manufacturer and the volume control knob is turned all the way up. Be prepared to thin your paint, which might require more than 1 coat depending on your expected results. The different spray patterns (vertical/horizontal/circular) work quite well, but you'll want to practice a bit beforehand with the thinned paint to ensure you know what distance away from the surface you need to hold the sprayer in order to get the coverage you want. I sprayed a bunch of 6 panel doors, casings and trim and this worked great. Definitely easier than dragging out a large sprayer and produces a better look with much less effort than a paintbrush. You'll want to stop periodically (more than you would like to) and clean the tip and the air caps around the tip to ensure no paint is clogging it. It sprays fantastically when clean, but clogs up fairly easily and quickly...again...this is for small applications. I then tried spraying a ceiling with it (only 7 ft high, ~400 sq ft). This is definitely not the right/best tool for that job. Ignoring that you have to be very close to your application surface in order to get proper coverage, the angle at which you must spray becomes problematic. The suction tube that goes into the canister can be adjusted so you can tilt the sprayer upward and get more of the paint out, but it still leaves too much paint in the canister before needing to refill. If the suction tube were just a bit longer I think this would not be a problem. As with any sprayer, there is overspray and the aerosolized paint will hover in the air so mask/tape up appropriately, but this is definitely less of a problem than a full sized airless sprayer. The different needles, tips, air caps and wrench are all tiny and will easily get lost of you don't keep them in a spot where they aren't loose. Can't say that cleaning is easy, but cleaning any paint sprayer is usually annoying and cumbersome. Lots of small parts that can get lost down a drain or dropped and a lot nooks and crannys on the device that collect paint and once dried only come off with brushing. The supplied brush does work, but it's pretty small and is probably more for clearing the tips and air caps while spraying than for cleaning. Overall, I'd say this is a good value for the money, especially if you have a small job that you'd like to get a "sprayed" finish look to it. I will use this again and believe it is worth the $120.00

First time paint sprayer here!!! I was hesitant on buying a paint sprayer because I figured I would spend a lot of money and still not be happy with the results (and would get an “I told you so” from my fiancé). But I really wanted smooth polished results on our doors and cabinets, so I took a leap of faith (after doing sooo much research and reading sooo many reviews) and bought the Super Finish Max. I’m happy to report that I’ve now finished my first spray projects: the sides of existing bathroom cabinets and a wood-grain bathroom door (all pictured); and we’re both very happy with the results!! The finish actually turned out better than I/we expected for such a reasonably priced non-commercial sprayer! I did my homework though: I read tons of reviews, watched a couple videos, read the manual, and followed the “get used to this thing” steps of first practicing with water and then practicing on cardboard before ever going near my cabinets and door. Helpful tips that I adopted from other reviewers: 1) buy an extra container and fill it with soapy water (if using a water based paint) for quick clean-up afterwards so the paint doesn’t dry in the unit before you can get it cleaned out; 2) using a large ziplock baggie to line the container for paint helped the clean-up process but it’s not fool-proof for keeping the container totally paint-free; 3) having a paint container separate from a soapy water container also allowed me to not have to re-thin my paint each time, allowing the second and third coats to go much faster; 4) buy the viscosity cup thing (not included) to make sure your paint is thinned properly - I had to add a lot more water than I would’ve expected and the process of add, stir, test, add, stir, test takes a while but it’s so important in order to get great results and don’t ruin your machine (another reason for why it’s so much faster for re-coats if you can leave the thinned paint in one container and have a different container for cleaning; 5) anytime you are about to start another coat, test test test on something (cardboard, newspaper) to make sure your settings are still ok; 6) clean the heck out of it because I’ve heard time and time again (inc. from people I know) that theirs died because it didn’t get cleaned properly. While the cleaning process isn’t fun, it’s not THAT much worse than the cleaning process for any other paint project with brushes and rollers and the actual process of painting goes so much faster & is easier with the sprayer vs brushing/rolling, so I feel like it all evens out in the end from a time and effort standpoint. All in all, this sprayer has already paid for itself with just the small projects I just did (vs. the cost of hiring someone to spray them for us) and I don’t anticipate any issues with continuing to spray more doors and cabinets with it as we continue to remodel. But even IF it does die on me at some point, the price of buying another one is still minimal in comparison to hiring a pro to do all this spray work.

We've had this sprayer for around a year and had only used it on small projects. That is until we had a lot of extra time at home and decided to tackle painting our kitchen cabinets. And let me make one thing very clear, the only thing I know about painting was picked up by a handful of YouTube videos. We focused on the edges first and then followed with steady 50% overlapping sweeping passes across the big surfaces. I can't tell you if this is correct or not, but our results were outstanding. absolutely! It also comes with a little viscosity cup, which I'll admit, I lost a while back but we ran all our primer and paint through these paint strainers to make sure there was no clumps and everything sprayed great. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PA09V0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 XMA Header Image TCP Global 50 Pack of Paint Strainers with Fine 190 Micron Filter Tips - Premium"Pure Blue" Ultra-Flow Blue Nylon Mesh - Cone Paint Filter Screen amazon.com Now, before jumping right into to slinging paint, my advice would be to go WAY over the top (literally) with your masking and paint booth. Spend the time now, you'll be thankful later. And make sure to wear breathing and eye protection. My wife and I each have one of these by 3M respirators https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009F5KDS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and they work perfectly, while not making us overheat like our N95 masks sometimes do. Very reasonable cost when we bought them, but with COVID who knows? Ok, so we removed the doors and set up craft paper covered folding tables inside a plastic sheet room in the garage. Although I wish we would've span it over the top also because the overspray gets everywhere! Also, plan ahead because depending on the size of your kitchen, you're going to need a lot of space, or plan to paint in shifts, but we didn't want to be moving them around too much. Also, get a bunch of the little table tents to prop the panels up off the surface, so you can get a good coat all around. **one more tip for the doors - do the backs first. We primed first, but when it came to paint, we did two coats to the backs until we were happy, then flipped them all and hit the fronts with three coats and are very happy. NO BRUSH STROKES! The main reason for doing backs first is that even if the tents happen to leave small tick marks in the surface, it's on the back side and. you'll never see or focus on them.** Now back inside to do the frames. We went to the trouble of masking the inside of the cabinets and the best results I had was cutting cardboard to just bigger than each opening. I then cut a hole big enough to reach through and tape them in place. The hole is easy to cover back up before spraying. < Not sure that makes sense, but stick with me. With all of that effort yielded, we did get the results we were hoping for, but I think that if I had it to do over again, I would have bought more primer & paint and just shot them inside and out. Also, take EVERYTHING out of the cabinets...no matter which process you follow. Much less stressful, trust me. Truthfully though, this sprayer is so easy to use, and the only odd thing I ran into, was when painting over my head for extended periods of time, I opened the paint reservoir and turned the straw 180 degrees so that it pulled paint from the back instead of front. That'll make more sense when you start working with it. Hope this helps somebody.

Usage: I painted my house (1500 SQFT Ranch), 3 car garage and shed with this thing. I never had any issues with clogging and spitting as some complain. The few times it happened was after I let the gun sit while I reloaded on paint. If you have to leave the gun sit between painting, just clean the goobered paint off the nozzle with a wet cloth and do a test spray at the ground before hitting the house. It took me about 3 weekends to finish the job mainly because were were testing out different colors, and avoiding weather. I recommend getting a second, maybe third canister. This way you can load up a few extra's to keep painting, or have someone around to run and get you refills. Getting up and down a ladder to reload took the most time. The temperature was in the high 80's to low 90's. We used VALSPAR SEASONPLUS paint from Lowes. With one canister I could cover about 7'-8' high and about 15 liner feet. Having those extra canisters will keep you painting. I did the bottom half of my entire garage in about 3 hours. Mixing: Get a smaller bucket, I think it was 2 gallon, and also a measuring bucket. I got them at Lowes, it made it easier to mix the paint and Flowtrol. It was impossible to dump paint from the 5 gallon bucket into the canisters. They also sell nozzles that fit into the 5 gallon bucket hole. Get one! The first few times you pour from a 5 gallon bucket, it don't have air flow and it glugs out. I had to squeeze the 5 gallon bucket between my thighs so it would force it out. Floetrol! In total I ran 7-8 gallons of paint using Floetrol every refill. I think I used about 1.5 gallons. https://www.amazon.com/Flood-FLD6-Latex-Conditioner-1-Gallon/dp/B003IF3FWE/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=flotrol&qid=1599163396&sr=8-2 Get a small mixer for your drill. I would add the Floetrol directly in the canister, then top off with paint from the small bucket. The mixer seemed to do the job well. You could shake it to mix, but just took longer. Beware! Don't let paint dry on the mixer, or when you go to mix another batch the paint flakes off and you have to filter it. I had a metal one, but found it was nicking up the bottom of the canisters towards the end. Might get nylon or plastic to avoid this. https://www.amazon.com/Shur-Line-06200-Gallon-Paint-Mixer/dp/B00004Z4H5/ref=sr_1_8?crid=1DY3AY2ZLZCQQ&dchild=1&keywords=paint+mixer+for+drill&qid=1599163682&sprefix=paint+mixer+%2Caps%2C218&sr=8-8 If you do get paint flakes, or just crap blowing around the yard in your paint, get some paint cone filters. I didn't need to use them unless I got stuff in my paint. I just bought some at my local hardware store. https://www.amazon.com/Micron-Paint-Strainers-Terberl-Filter/dp/B07V4WRJJG/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2E6DR8CBRRMNJ&dchild=1&keywords=paint+filters+for+spray+gun&qid=1599164102&sprefix=paint+filters%2Caps%2C225&sr=8-6 Cleaning: Don't bother with the cleaning kit, that was useless. I just used the nozzle on my hose, low water flow, and flushed until it ran clean. Then I would clean it out with the brush in my kitchen sink. It was very tedious, but I made sure EVERYTIME it was clean so I wouldn't gunk up my nozzle. I probably cleaned and used it 8-10 times. Other tips: I tried to fashion a guard to help from painting the eves, it was just cardboard on a stick. It got all flimsy and a mess so I abandoned it. I ended up painting 6-8 inches from the eves and went back with a brush to finish it off. They do sell spray shields, but trying to handle a shield, the paint gun, and balance on a ladder seemed impossible. If you have to use a ladder, don't over spray too far in one direction (right side for me.) I painted left to right. I would start out with the gun in my left hand, and then switch to my right after I passed the ladder. With the ladder leaning on the house, you'll leave little areas unpainted. If you lean and spray too far to the right, you won't be able to lean far enough back left to spray the missed spots once you move the ladder. Cut up an old T-shirt and wrap the ends of your latter to make little pads so if you do have to lean on painted areas it won't muck up the paint. I just duck taped them on. When loaded with a fresh canister, paint the lower 1-2 feet first. This is because you'll most likely have to point the gun down to paint this area. You'll find that as you run out of paint it will suck air when pointed down and mess up your rhythm leaving you to go back over spots. But with the lower half painted first, you can keep the sprayer level at all times. Affix the nozzle so it points towards the gun. This way it's easier to point up and not suck air. Make sure to affix the nozzle BEFORE screwing on a canister. This will avoid the WTF moments when the gun isn't spraying. If you point the gun up or down too far, or if it falls over, it will get paint up in the gun making it harder to clean. Don't leave the canister filled with acetone over night! It expanded the gasket in the canister, luckily it reshaped itself in a few days, but was still a little wonky.

This gun did a great job for a bedroom I painted. I was hoping it would have lasted for the rest of my house but unfortunately, it didn't. The first use was amazing. The prep time to cover everything took a little while, but I have a system in place now. You have to cover EVERYTHING in the room. I bought cheap, disposable plastic covers. You also have to cover your floors. For that I used the plastic and canvas on top. The sprayer worked well, went on smoothly and evenly. Cleaning it was a pain and messy. A lot of parts to clean. It takes about an hour for clean up. The second time i used it, it worked well. The third time, it didn't work. It took a while to troubleshoot. The 4th, time...same thing. By the 5th time, it was dead. Nothing I did could trouble shoot it. I cleaned every inch of it between uses and never let it sit with paint in it. I also never ran primer through it. It was a cheap sprayer and it works great for using it for a project or two. But if you want to do your whole house, I would spend more money on a better sprayer.

So I had a pretty big job with 12 interior, unfinished slab doors that needed to be stained and sealed. I don’t do this enough as in regularly having this volume to treat that would justify a full commercial sprayer system and this job was big enough to not having the time or inclination to hand finish with a brush, sponge, etc... I was looking for a reliable sprayer that wasn’t going to create more work and be effective and reliable since it was going to take 3 - 4 days just to spray the top coat layers on that many doors and produce a good quality, finished product. I was working out of the client’s garage that I made a temp spray booth with plastic. This sprayer worked great, was reliable and repeatable across the layers to produce a good poly top coat on the doors. The poly that is used is an important factor as well so it’s only on the sprayer. I cut the poly, water based, 10-15% in the jar prior to spraying. It took a little testing to get the pattern consistency to what I wanted and to get the speed and overlap to match the conditions. The conditions were not ideal out of the garage with it being very dry mostly and afternoon temps in the mid 90’s. I was surprised for as late in the season to still be in those temps so thinning was absolutely necessary. I wrapped the nozzle with a plastic bag between spraying sessions and rotating stock. It was about 20 - 30 min. Before it was dry enough to rotate door stock. In those temps. I would then unscrew the nozzle and tip for a quick clean just before starting to spray the next batch. Test spray into paper or cardboard or something disposable to clear and adjust product volume and then back to the doors. I can see me keeping this one sprayer for sealants only and getting another for paint. Even if it was a throwaway at the end of the job it would have been worth it for the time savings. It finished strong so I plan on using for the next job. This can make even my smaller jobs easier, quicker and more consistent so I’ll be using it more often following this experience. Do practice if you’re not familiar with spraying and if you are familiar, practice on cardboard anyway. There’s a difference between spraying topcoats or paint from water and it will give you good experience on what to look for on consistency and seeing the spray for overlap. This was a challenge in the garage. One noticing was that there was a transition on the product control volume being sprayed that “jumped” from a too small a spread to a wider spread with more product right at that sweet spot for me. I wanted the spread only with a little less product ideally for my situation and ended up adjusting my speed to compensate to maintain the size of spread I was looking for. There were places that droopped some with the sealer where there was too much build up. Thinning and temp changes were at play as well. The application was easy, the sprayer was easy to use and understand how it worked, very easy to unscrew the nozzle and clean the tip while keeping product in the jar, and screw jar back to the bottom with the feed.l when refilling. The directions were included for suggested spray tips. This one had 3 different sized tips and 2 nozzle sizes. I do recommend this homeright sprayer. I ordered a second jar with lid which is handy for cutting product and securing with the lid until ready to use. Just can make it easier if spraying lot of surface area in a pass.