Graco 244512 Pressure Roller Kit

I used to spray then follow with a roller, but this saves a lot of time and gives great coverage! I will continue to use this on interior projects. I also don't need cover everything with plastic or mask areas off to prevent overspray contamination.

I run a small residential painting company and I thought I’d give this product a try. If you already own a sprayer and do a lot of painting it’s a good purchase in my opinion. If you’re just a homeowner and don’t own a sprayer I definitely wouldn’t recommend buying this along with a sprayer just for the purpose of using the roller. It works really well. You almost use the wall as your roller grate or pan to evenly spread the paint on the roller sleeve and then all over the wall. It comes out a a great rate and is just as easy as rolling a regular wall. Fairly light wait. I was concerned about clean up but it’s not much harder than cleaning a regular sprayer set up just a few additional steps. The first time I cleaned it though it got a bit messy haha so make sure you have plastic down but soon enough you’ll clean it without a mess. As far as time saved goes I’d say something like 20-40% faster not factoring in sprayer clean time though. All in all for the price it’s not a bad purchase if you roll a lot of walls

I painted my whole house with this roller and a Graco Magnum X7 machine, about 12 gallons of primer, 6 gallons of ceiling paint and 10 gallons of latex paint.The latex paint (ceiling and wall) went out exceptionally well, with very little dripping or spattering (I started with drop sheets, but after the third room didn't bother any more, and just had a large flattened cardboard box under the pressure washer and paint bucket).The primer went less well (being thinner than the paint), with more drips, splatters and poorer coverage. I'm not sure if that's the roller's fault, the primer being unsuitable to pressure rolling or a problem with the paint I used, but moving from the primer to the paint was a relief.The main drawback of pressure rolling is the amount of setup, cleanup and waste of paint. This is more suitable for large projects, and painting a single room is probably not big enough (although I did paint two single rooms in different colors as a "single room project").Priming the machine wastes some paint, cleaning it wastes some more and there's a limit to how low the paint can be in the can before it can't pull it anymore (that's after I took off the small filter on the end of the input hose on the machine).The best way I found of cleaning the roller is to first take of the roller off the frame, disassembling the roller itself and rinsing off the plastic parts of the roller before cleaning the roller nap itself. There is a lot of paint left on those plastic parts, and trying to rinse the roller assembled takes much more time.The main annoyance point was with switching paints (primer to paint or one color to another, for example) - naturally it requires meticulous cleaning, but then there is too much water in the machine, roller frame and the roller itself, so even after fully priming with paint (to the point of working the trigger with the roller removed until only thick paint came out) you would still get a lot of water from the roller on the wall until the actual paint started rolling. Waiting for everything to fully dry resolves this problem, but sometimes it's not realistic to way that long.Other than that, the swivel joint leaked unless tightened so much that it stopped swiveling, but I didn't find the swivel helpful anyway, and actually preferred it stiff, both for walls and ceilings.Overall, I liked this roller a lot. It's much easier to paint large areas this way, typically making cutting the bulk of the work, and not the rolling (taking less than half an hour to fully roll a typical bedroom, and about an hour to roll 2 gallons of paint on a large room). The extension pipe makes it easy to roll floor to ceiling (with 8' ceilings, at least).I felt that rolling with this was somewhat more physically demanding than regular rolling, mainly because you never stop rolling (which gives you a break from the repetitive motion) but also because of the extra weight and bulk of the hose feeding the roller.

I've used a power paint roller for decades now, and I bought this with a Graco sprayer to improve over the others I had used in the past. The jury's still out on the sprayer, as my first use of the Graco was to paint using the roller attachment. It's a bit fussy to set up, and I miss having a shield over one side of the roller. For doing ceilings, lifting the roller unit above your head gets tiring really quick. I had to mess with the pressure a bit, but I finally got it dialed in to where I could hit the trigger for a second or two, and have enough paint to keep rolling uninterrupted. (It was just a hair beyond the "roller" setting on the pressure knob.)Once you develop a rhythm, the rolling goes quickly. I still hate cleaning paint rollers, but at least with the Graco sprayer, I found that it took only a minute or two to get all the paint out and flush with clear water, including the pump, hose and roller attachment, vs. a half hour or more with the older rollers I used.One helpful tip I can give is that if you're working in limited space, you do not have to use the extension--simply remove it and attached your roller right to the trigger handle. Everything seems sturdily built, so it should give a good, long life. Is it a bit pricey at nearly $90? Sure. But for me, the time savings and the superior paint job have always made a power roller worth the money. I never could have applied three coats of paint as efficiently as I did without this roller.

Bought this attachment for my Graco sprayer. Spraying has its place but this attachment is the bomb!! I can use this far more places with less preparation than spraying and it works great.

I have ordered over 2000 products from Amazon and this is one of my only reviews. This product is fantastic, but I now realize why it got some negative reviews. This product is not for the mechanically incompetent. If you are a business owner, and have unskilled and lazy employees, they are going to screw it up. You can't keep the pressure on constantly. You just pulse it every once in a while when you need more paint. Keeping the pressure on, or too high will bulge and eventually burst the roller. Like any pain device, it must be cleaned after use. Care is EASY, but not optional. And the guy who complained that he couldn't flip it over to get into the opposite corner was a nincompoop! Just flip it over like any roller and use the trigger upside down! I did notice the person who commented on grease in the seals tainting his paint. Mine had only a light coat. After the first cleaning, I re lubricated the seal with another light coat of a clear grease (VERY LIGHT). This product is excellent as long as you have an ounce of common sense.