Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We built a garden cottage in our back yard, and it was time to paint it. My son spent an hour-and-a-half just painting under the eaves on one side of the cottage using a paint brush. This was going to take forever! I decided to buy this spray gun, and it is seriously one of the best purchases I've ever made! What took my son an hour-and-a-half with a brush, my husband did in less than 10 minutes with this spray gun! We had never used a spray gun before, so I was worried that it wouldn't work right, or we wouldn't know what to do, or we would mess it up, or a million other things. I chose this particular gun after comparing all the reviews, and not wanting to spend a ton of money, but still having a decent gun, and having it delivered the next day for free. The instructions are a bit confusing, but I just used common sense and figured things out. A very important thing to do is to make sure that you filter your paint before pouring it into the spray container. I bought a paint filter (it's just some mesh) from the hardware store and poured the paint through it into the container. If you don't filter your paint, you will end up with a clog which will cause the gun to spit and sputter. Also, make sure that your paint is the right consistency. Our paint was Behr Paint & Primer (from Home Depot) and it was very thick. The container for the gun holds about a quart of paint. In a separate container, I poured in 1/3 cup of water, then about a quart of paint. I stirred, stirred, stirred, until it was mixed super well. Then I poured the thinned mixture through the filter into the gun container. It took a few practice strokes to get the feel of the gun as I began spraying the paint onto the cottage, and I had to figure out how fast I should move, and how close to the wall I needed to be, but after we experimented, we figured it all out and we made super fast progress. There wasn't very much over-spray, which I was happy about. We painted all the walls (about 600 sq feet of vertical walls) and under the eaves (about 75 feet) with the gun, using about 3 gallons of paint onto bare siding. The gun worked perfectly. In fact, my husband tilted the gun in all directions, even practically upside down at times while doing underneath the eaves, and I was surprised that the gun still worked! Then we built some shutters and used the gun to spray the shutters a different color than the cottage. After we were done painting each time, I took everything apart, and cleaned everything really well. The handle and the motor are one unit, which pulls off of the front part (which is the container and the nozzle). When you're ready to clean the gun, pull off the handle/motor and set that aside. It's the front part that you will be taking apart and washing. There's a little cleaning brush included to help get in the small areas. I have my own cleaning brush that I used also. I've really had a great experience using this spray gun! I wish I would have gotten it years ago! I was thinking about all the things we have painted with a brush and roller, when we could have been using this spray gun! Now we want to repaint our actual house! With this gun it will be a breeze!