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First I had to mask up the kitchen window and the second doorway. The latter I did by masking it from the inside, cutting a slit in the middle to about half-doorway height and then adding a curtain covering the slit. I also had to add a band of masking across the bottom of the doorway to make the barrier more impervious. Then I had to get the spraying machine ready to go, which is when the fun began.<\/p>\n

I had no idea how its controls actually worked aside from the very brief comments contained in the laughably entitled ‘user manual’. Having dipped the delivery tube into a bucket of water I aimed the gun outside towards an old sheet of polythene and pulled the trigger. What eventually came out was a solid jet of water, hardly what I expected or wanted.<\/p>\n

I thought that maybe the machine required a more viscous medium to work so placed the delivery tube into a can of sealing undercoat and tried again. Same result. I’d wasted at least a litre or so of paint (probably more) before I decided that I needed to find out what was wrong with the jet. There was a jet that came with the machine in a separate container that, from the wording, sounded like a second ‘alternative’ jet so I decided that I’d do a swap and try it out.<\/p>\n

To cut a long story short, it turned out that this was the ONLY jet and it needed to be installed in the machine as at the time of delivery no jet is actually fitted. I guess it would have been a nice idea to have mentioned this in the ‘user manual’ with clear instructions on how to install it but apparently the manufacturer thinks otherwise.<\/p>\n

When I’d eventually got it into place (and cleared up the mess) it turned out that the machine worked amazingly well and after I’d realised that I hadn’t got a mask on, stopped and resumed spraying after donning my brand new 3M ‘masque de protection respiratoire’ it actually only took me a matter of minutes to spray all of the walls and ceiling in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

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Here’s after I’d removed all of the masking film from the floor. That was a blessed relief as there was a lot of plaster dust on its surface which until then had been walking in and out of the kitchen onto the floor tiles in the living room.<\/p>\n

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Some shots of the ceiling.<\/p>\n

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Here are the plumbing pipes after I’d removed their masking ready for when the plumber comes in.<\/p>\n

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Cleaning the machine took several times longer than it did to spray the whole kitchen, so the lesson is to get as much spraying of the same colour as possible lined up to do all at the same time. I was also surprised how much paint I used. I opened a new 12 litre can of paint and by the time I’d finished, the delivery tube was drawing in the last drops.<\/p>\n

Let’s say that given what was left and the amount I’d wasted getting the machine running I’d used 10 litres. That’s enough, according to the can, to cover 100 sq metres. I haven’t done the sums but that seems like quite a lot for the size of the kitchen. Maybe I’ll have to be more sparing in my spraying efforts in future.<\/p>\n

I’ve left masking tape around the doorways, window and floors because the walls and ceiling will have to be painted after the plumber has finished. I’ll have to re-mask the walls, window, doorways and floor to do the ceiling (in white) and the ceiling and coving when I do the wall sections that will not be tiled, but that’ll be a comparative doddle without all the plaster dust that there was previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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