WagnerSpraytech 0530000B Smart Edge Paint Roller, Paint Power Roller, Power Paint Roller, Wagner Paint Stick, Automatic Paint Roller, Auto Paint Roller, Power Roller Paint System

I bought this last year for my old house. I had it painted for me but provided the tools to get the jobs done (painted many colors including a 20' cathedral area). My guy absolutely loved it. We were using Valspar with the primer already in it. My daughter's room was painted in shiny acrylic (never again with the acrylic paint!): purple, teal and a really blue blue. He used it around the walls and along the trim. I came up and saw the job and was quite pleased.I moved and wanted to get rid of the orange walls. I decided to do all of the edging and have my guy do the painting. I could not use it next to the ceiling because I have a bumpy plaster ceiling. We used 2 gallons of Home Depot paint + primer and had the majority of the job done in a little over 5 hours.It's not a perfect tool, but I have to say it cut down work by half, maybe even more, the time it took to paint this pretty larger room (wtih higher than normal ceilings again).Sometimes, yes, you can see the previous color right next to the trim. I had a small paint brush with me for that purpose. And if I made a mistake with the brush, I also had a damp washcloth with me.I didn't have any giant messes, but then, I didn't pump a lot of paint into the roller either. If I did (rare), I used a super soft touch. I also didn't have any problems with the pump. We used a brush to wipe off excess paint, just like we used a brush when pouring paint into the roller tray.I haven't yet changed the roller. Maybe that's a problem. For me, it's nearly worth it to go out and buy a new Smart Edge Roller, if I had to get a new roller. Because I loved this product <b>that</b> much.This is my first review (positive; I did complaint about a different product once).LJ

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.

Let me say that this is a very neat tool, it's just not the best at edging.As long as you follow the instructions, the tool is fairly easy to put together. Once you get it put together, using it is pretty easy.I think that this tool has a lot of potential as a paint roller for small spaces. I used it to paint my closet ceiling after I took the popcorn off and it did a good job getting the paint on. I liked how I didn't have to keep using a messy rolling tray. Refilling the paint was very easy. I also did not have any paint drips as long as I did not overload the roller.As far as edging though, I would say that the tool is mediocre. The little brush on the edge of the roller did not get completely to the edge and it was hard to get enough paint on it so that it did not leave brush stroked/lines. I wonder if the brush was made with maybe foam if it would be better.After one use painting the ceiling, this particular roller did hold up without any leaks. I did have one that I bought from Lowe's that started leaking from the handle. The manufacturer had said it was defective.Since I do not have a sink with the right nosel to attack the paint roller to, clean up took a while. It probably took 10-15 min of constant cleaning to get the paint almost all the way out.

It is slow on the uptake of paint so it takes a little bit to get going. Then for a while it works great but after a bit it starts to leak and get messy. I wear latex gloves so it wasn't a big deal. It only dripped on the floor one time, but it slowed me down as I kept checking for drips. Washing it was a little time consuming. Overall it saved me time but I would only use it for bigger jobs. The effort to start and clean up wouldn't be worth it for a small task. I was doing a small room but it wasn't a square room so I had a lot of corners. This did save me time. I'll be doing a hallway with a foyer which I'll use it again. It was good not great.