Customer Reviews

HomeRight C800060 5-Piece Paint Stick Kit

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

When it comes to painting, I don't have a lot of patience especially if the room is large. I bought this paintstick on a recommendation, but I did have my doubts. After I taped off the room and cut in the corners, I was ready to use my new paintstick. The instructions for putting it together were a bit confusing but by looking at the picture on the box, I had it put together in a few minutes. All you do is flip the lever to 'fill' and pull back the plunger and the paintstick is filled with paint. In a 12 x 12 room, I had the first coat on in about 10 minutes.. if that. The best part is that there's no mess. I don't know how well it would work in a small room such as a powder room but I am recommending this thing to everyone!
I would have given it five stars but cleaning this paintstick is kind of a pain. When you're cleaning it, make sure you're doing it in a room that you don't mind getting messy.

If you're painting more than one room with the same color, then get the paintstick. It really works. I was able to paint one coat in a 12x15 living room in less than an hour. The paint shield is great, I no longer get dots of paint on my face. The best part is using the paint stick for ceiling - since all our rooms had the same ceiling color, I was able to use the same paintstick for the entire 2900sqft home.

All in all, we used 4 regular size paintsticks for our walls & ceilings, and 1 mini-size (Low_es and Sea_rs have them) for the closets.

The only bad part is the cleanup. You should follow the instructions in their booklet because their methods are the easiest ways to cleanup. I was able to clean one stick in 25 minutes. So even though the painting saves a lot of time, the need to cleanup eats into that saving.

Tips:
1) Continuously squeeze the paint out so that the roller is always wet - this way it's easier to glide across the walls and saves some work for your arms.
2) The kit works with 1 gallon cans. So if you buy those big 5 gallon cans of paint, make sure you ask the paint dealer for an empty 1 gallon can to pour the paint.
3) It's helpful to have a water hose to shoot water into the tube for cleanup. You can use those kitchen faucets that can extend out, or you can use your shower (that makes a mess).

I have an older model that I purchased about 6 years ago. They have improved the foam core in the roller now which makes cleaning easier. It is easy to clean. I hate cleaning paint brushes and this is so simple. With the accessories, this makes a paint job so easy I enjoy painting. I can't wait to get the Stain Stick to do my deck and my hardwood floors. I use the Quick Stick to cut in around windows and doors. It works great

This product will let you fly. Normal cleaning requires some patience and about 1/2 hour over a sink (no biggie, just some time). I painted a whole house in an afternoon (3 bedrooms, hallway, closets, living room, dining room and kitchen)(walls only)with 2 coats of paint with this thing. Note the house was empty and all the same color so I could move fast, but that was around 12 gallons of paint I went through in about 8 hrs. In other bigger jobs like the outside of my house, instead of cleanup each night, I would just get the roller as dry as possible before stopping for the night and just put the whole roller under water in the bath tub. Next day I would just pick up where I left off. This is a great technique and can be used over several days without having to clean each time. This thing will pay for itself in your first hr of use. Enjoy

I have just used the HomeRight C800438 which to all intents and purposed is the same as the model listed above. I found it quick and after the first struggle easy to load and fill. It gives a lighter even layer than using the old brush and tray method and you have to make sure you have your roller charged.

The main disadvantage I thought was the length of the shaft. As you near the end of the paint the effective length of the shaft is 30 inches or 76 centimeters plus about 7 inches for the working end bit with the roller on. I am 6 foot tall exactly and the ceiling I was working on was 8 foot. I found I had to operate the stick with my arms around chest height or a bit higher which is tiring especially if you wan to put some pressure on the roller. I have roller on the end of a longer pole which is use with a tray and because that extends to almost five feet I can use it with my hands below my waste and yet still be accurate and apply pressure. I liked the paintstick but it is a pity the handle is not a bit longer.

Cleaning is a pain as the earlier reviews show.

Recently my family bought our first home and commenced in painting every single room in the house. My mom got me the Wagner Power Products 284041 Paint Mate Plus Roller for Christmas. When the time came to start painting the house my mom brought her HomeRight C800060 5-Piece Paint Stick Kit over so that when one roller was drying the other could be in use, so I got a chance to test both on multiple rooms.

After painting my entire house I can say with all confidence that the Paintstick is the better product. I was able to paint 3 rooms three different colors using my mom's Paintstick, washing the assembly in between colors of course. As I started each new job there was no leaking, the paint went on evenly and covered the roller evenly, (no dripping or pooling on any particular spot on the roller). The most incredible thing about this product was that my mom had used the roller PREVIOUSLY on some rooms in her house, so the roller had lasted through 4+ rooms. (A note, here, the ceilings in my house are vaulted, so this roller covered a much larger area than your typical normal sized room walls.) Considering that replacement rollers for this product run about $8-$12 that's a big cost savings!

The only reason I give this product 4 stars out of five is that taking apart the assemble for cleaning is more difficult than the Wagner Power Products 284041 Paint Mate Plus Roller when you have wet slippery hands, which you do, when cleaning paint supplies. Pretty much every time I had to ask my husband who had dry hands to pull apart the pump assembly for me. That said, even though cleaning the roller and the parts take a bit of time, (I spent about 15 minutes making sure everything was free of paint at the sink) it all gets very clean and after some air drying it will be ready for another coat or another color.

We didn't do our ceilings with either since we bought 2 gallon buckets of ceiling paint and there is no lid sized for 2 gallon buckets. That would be a nice optional accessory if it were available, which, I'm not sure it is.

The Paintstick feels like a much cheaper product than the Paint Mate, but it performs MUCH better. If you are deciding between the two I would say go with the Paintstick!

When buying one of these products make sure you have some petrolleum jelly on hand as you need to apply it to the seals between cleanings and before storing the product to preserve the seals and keep them from leaking.

Using this tool is a pleasure. It saves time and reduces the inevitable spatter of roller painting. I painted a large living room and textured ceiling and was surprised at how few fill ups were necessary. My back would still be hurting had I tackled this job the conventional way.

The clean up is an unenviable and messy chore. Buy extra roller covers from Homeright to save yourself a little work post-painting.

It's true, the paint stick allows your to paint a room in 1/3 the time. Plus it's alot less messy and drippy than using a standard roller. For 'cutting in' Homeright also has a tiny version of a paint stick.I'm definitely using the paint stick again on my next paint project. So why only 4 stars? Like everyone else...the cleanup is just too time consuming.I got about 1/4 of the way into the cleanup procedure and ended up just throwing the whole thing away. But for $25 you can throw it away. When the project is done $25 doesn't sound so bad to throw out.I hate to paint,exceeded only by cleaning up after painting. I'll just get a new one next time.

I bought my paintstick when they were first on tv 7 or 8 years ago. This is the best product that I have ever bought from an info-mercial. Buy this product and you will think the same way I do. It is wonderful. Very light weight. Paints very fast and easy. I can't say enough about this product. I absolutely love it.

We got one of these when painting our upstairs.... This thing is good if you have a lot of area to cover, and a lot of area to work. My wife found it unwieldy, but I loved it. I put 2 gallons of paint on the wall in about and hour. I only had to return to the can maybe a dozen times to refill. No bending over the pan BS.... huge timesaver in that regard... I don't know why people bitch about the cleaning, I found it pretty easy.... If you have a 12x12 room or something, I'd just go w/ a traditional roller.... but if you have to do a bunch of painting, this thing really does the job.