The Paint Zoom has received mixed reviews from its customers, but it all depends on what you are painting. It's praise comes from the time-saving aspect, but its drawbacks are it's time-consuming maintenance, easily breakable parts and the quality of the finished product.
The main consensus seems to be that it is better for painting outdoor furniture as opposed to indoor walls and ceilings. The praise for the Paint Zoom is that it, being a spray it reduces the time by a great deal. Understandable really as unless painting is your profession, it’s a monotonous drone that can take days full of clutter and mess and when you think you’ve finished, you’ve forgot the second coat.
Negative reviews state that the Paint Zoom is not as ‘plug and play’ as the advertisements suggest. It works better with water-based paints such as emulsions and not so well with solvent-based paints like gloss. That’s most likely because it is a spray and solvent-based paints may be too thick for the device.
The television adverts make out that the time saving aspect is too good to be true. Well many reviewers have said that while it gets the actual task of painting completed quicker, the sheer amount of cleaning and maintenance it requires will steal away that saved time. The paint barrel must be cleaned with water if you’re using emulsion and white spirit if you’re using gloss, then the nozzle has to be cleaned to make sure it won’t get caked with paint and clog up.
The parts themselves are said to be light and poorly made and the paint drum is prone to dropping out of the bottom.
I imagine that professionals would stay away from it, judging from the reviews it’s received. But if you’re just giving your home or garden furniture a quick do-over, then it’ll make the job quicker.
The main consensus seems to be that it is better for painting outdoor furniture as opposed to indoor walls and ceilings. The praise for the Paint Zoom is that it, being a spray it reduces the time by a great deal. Understandable really as unless painting is your profession, it’s a monotonous drone that can take days full of clutter and mess and when you think you’ve finished, you’ve forgot the second coat.
Negative reviews state that the Paint Zoom is not as ‘plug and play’ as the advertisements suggest. It works better with water-based paints such as emulsions and not so well with solvent-based paints like gloss. That’s most likely because it is a spray and solvent-based paints may be too thick for the device.
The television adverts make out that the time saving aspect is too good to be true. Well many reviewers have said that while it gets the actual task of painting completed quicker, the sheer amount of cleaning and maintenance it requires will steal away that saved time. The paint barrel must be cleaned with water if you’re using emulsion and white spirit if you’re using gloss, then the nozzle has to be cleaned to make sure it won’t get caked with paint and clog up.
The parts themselves are said to be light and poorly made and the paint drum is prone to dropping out of the bottom.
I imagine that professionals would stay away from it, judging from the reviews it’s received. But if you’re just giving your home or garden furniture a quick do-over, then it’ll make the job quicker.
