Masonry paint and Garden sprayer?

Mike Ehrmantraut

Hi, have an old pebble dash cottage and after the last time painting it with brush and roller, I swore never again!

Thinking of using a good Masonry paint and a garden sprayer to paint it, but could do with some advice if any of you have tried this, if its a good way to go or would I be wasting my time?

Also wondering, about thinning out the paint, which ratio to use to thin the paint or would it be better to use a paint like weathershield easyspray paint?

Any advice would be welcome, thanks

Tokyo

I tried using a spray gun years ago on the family home (middle of a village, on main road) and found out very quickly that by the time the paint had gotten into the hollows of the pebbledash, the raised part of the dash was dripping with paint, and I ended up having to roll the wall anyway with a deep pile roller just to soak up the excess and redistribute it across the wall. The spray gun experiment lasted all of a minute before I realised that the most of my paint was dripping into the gutter and running down the street, before I packed it away and dug out the roller tray...

Mike Ehrmantraut

mike_ie wrote: »

I tried using a spray gun years ago on the family home (middle of a village, on main road) and found out very quickly that by the time the paint had gotten into the hollows of the pebbledash, the raised part of the dash was dripping with paint, and I ended up having to roll the wall anyway with a deep pile roller just to soak up the excess and redistribute it across the wall. The spray gun experiment lasted all of a minute before I realised that the most of my paint was dripping into the gutter and running down the street, before I packed it away and dug out the roller tray...

Cheers, not exactly what I was hoping to hear but thanks anyway!

flintash

there is proffesional masonry spray painter allright. I still would try garden sprayer.
I painted same surface like yours this year and was thinking to use spray gun, but assumed the holes too small for masonry paint. see how it goes for you.

Happyman42

For this to work you have to have a biggish brush with you to lay off the excess. Once you get into the swing of using both sprayer and brush it works quite well. The sprayer is just for getting the paint into those recesses and not a finisher in itself. Have done it numerous times without issue.

Mike Ehrmantraut

Happyman42 wrote: »

For this to work you have to have a biggish brush with you to lay off the excess. Once you get into the swing of using both sprayer and brush it works quite well. The sprayer is just for getting the paint into those recesses and not a finisher in itself. Have done it numerous times without issue.

Will give it a go, should I mix much water through the paint?