You could NOT make this up – Part 2

I bought my new Vevor high pressure airless spray machine to paint the interior of my new house. After assembling it with difficulty according to the cursory and inadequate instructions that came with it (I had to bend the circlip that secures the main paint pick-up tube to the machine to make it fit) I managed to undercoat the kitchen without too many problems. Frustratingly I did find though, that the volume emitted by the jet was very variable from insufficient to way too much causing runs.

I then started on my living room a few days ago which is very large and a prime candidate for such a machine but have had nothing but problems with it. The first time I switched the machine on after purchasing it it would not generate any pressure, needing to be switched off and on several times and this has continued to keep happening.

But worse still, while painting my living room I eventually had to give up because the jet kept continually blocking needing the pistol and jet to be disassembled and cleaned. Inevitably, as this meant venting and opening up the high pressure line, some paint found its way out meaning that not only was paint wasted every time but a terrible mess eventually resulted due to the leakage.

As it was impossible to continue, let alone achieve results that were anywhere near acceptable I ordered several new jets and threw away the one that Vevor supplied with the machine. After testing one of the new ones for several minutes with water as I was sick of the mess made by the old one and keeping losing so much paint I tried to resume painting my living room today.

Once again when I switched the machine on it did not develop any pressure. When it eventually did after switching it off and on several times and constantly raising and lowering the pressure setting, before I could start spraying there was a muffled ‘Whumph’ behind me and when I looked round I saw that the main paint delivery tube supplied by Vevor connecting the machine to the gun had exploded sending paint all over the ceiling and walls of my living room.

Before I could do anything about the huge pool of paint forming on my living room floor from the hole in the tube, first I had to dash round with steps and a paint brush to try to brush out the considerable number of paint droplets now on the walls and ceiling. Only after having done that could I try to clean up the huge mess on the floor.

Luckily it turned out that my floor masking was very effective. I cut out and lifted the area of film covered by the paint and miraculously none had gone through onto the tiles. I was even able to return much of the paint to the can and the bigger problem was walking around on the splatters of wet paint on the floor and transferring foot marks to areas which up to then had not been affected.

I find it incredible that the tube was apparently not rated to take the pressure generated by the machine (3500 psi) with a safety margin and that it should have failed so early on anyway. I can only surmise that the jet blocking problem was due to the pipe breaking down internally and constantly sending small pieces of debris down the line as it disintegrated. I also had problems getting the joints of the extension wand and pistol gun to stop leaking and my confidence in this machine is now extremely low.

As I must try to continue getting my house ready to move into I’ve had no choice but to order another tube which will be delivered on Tuesday when I will try to carry on. What worries me, however, is that since I’ve owned it the machine has succeeded in doing much more harm than good and that it might continue doing so.

Over many years I have purchased many different types of tools for many purposes but this Vevor airless sprayer is definitely the worst tool that I have ever been unfortunate enough to buy. I notified Vevor of the issues yesterday and I’m now waiting see what the outcome of this will be but I’ll be surprised if I’m not disappointed.