PowerFlow EZ Roller

We purchased the Wagner PowerFlow EZ Roller to complete interior and exterior painting projects prior to selling our home. Over the course of ten days, we utilized the system to apply two different paint colors. While we experienced a brief learning curve during our initial use, the process became significantly more efficient thereafter. The Wagner PowerFlow EZ Roller allowed us to complete the project with great speed, aided by favorable weather conditions. Furthermore, the cleanup process was both quick and straightforward. My wife and I highly recommend this product for any small or large-scale painting project.

Works great. Cut painting time in half

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Adverse weather in central Iowa has constrained my PowerFlow EZ-Roller evaluation to an unpacking and instruction review. Packaging was sufficient, safeguarding all components. The owner's manual offers clear, illustrated, sequential instructions. The cleaning procedure seems uncomplicated, employing soapy water or mineral spirits. The manual also details storage, troubleshooting, and a complete parts list. A supplemental review will be provided upon project commencement, weather permitting.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I used this power roller for the interior of a business…twice. This roller was surprisingly quick to paint with. I used it along with several 5-gallon buckets of paint. The flow is a little faster than I could keep up with, I simply used it to load up the roller then shut the pump off for a few seconds to roll out the paint. It was very easy to keep the painting moving along. Standard extensions made getting all the way to the ceiling simple. The pump is not very loud but you could hear when it is on which is a good thing when you accidentally hit the button when setting the roller down for a break or to move over to a new spot. Clean up was easy as well. A bucket of warm water and pump the good paint back into the paint can or bucket until a little water comes out then pump into another clean out bucket or sink until it runs clear. Clean the roller cover in the standard way if desired. This was a great way to paint a larger area quickly with simple clean up.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The PowerFlow EZ Roller was a delight to use, all you had to do was dip the pickup tube in paint and go to painting. This was so easy to use a kid could paint with it. There was no drips to worry about and the whole wall had the same amount of paint on it you didn't have to worry about thick or thin spots it just came out right with no worries as you can see in the provided picture. The construction was sturdy and felt well built it also had plenty of hose to get around the room with out have to move it every few minutes. Over all a great experience A+A+A+A+A+.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The PowerFlow EZ roller was easy enough to use my 11 year old picked it up with minimal instruction and painted about half of what I was painting, and actually did a pretty good job. A really good job considering she has never used a roller or electric painter in her life. The PowerFlow EZ Roller combines the direct from paint bucket of airless sprayers with the finish and no overspray of a roller. As I haven't used a roller all that much in the past, and was always worried about dumping over the paint tray, this product took that worry away for me. For this review, I needed to stain a section of fence that we replaced after Hurricane Beryl. I pressure washed it the day before staining it, and I'm using a "10 year warranty" solid color stain from a big box store. I did some of it with the 3/8" nap roller cover that came with the unit, but went back over it all with a 3/4" nap Wagner perforated roller cover that I picked up in a local store, as that is the recommended size for doing rough surfaces like a fence. The 3/8" roller cover would get the high spots, but wouldn't always get down in the grain of the pickets or the parts of pickets that would curl away from the neighbor picket. I was able to do some staining with less than the full width of the roller, just remember that as you do so there the stain/paint is liquid inside of the roller cover and it will flow towards the ground, so keep thinking about how much you have in the roller and tip it back and forth some as you do this type of "edging". The unit does take a little while (<1 minute) to load up paint in the roller before you start rolling. Prior to using this, I had read reviews on another variant of this unit from Wagner where people warned that, once you had loaded up the roller, it would quickly pump too much paint into the roller and make it easy to produce runs and have the roller slip around. Due to that, I was rather cautious as to how long I left the pump on for at a time. I think I typically would give it about a 5 count and turn it back off. Loading up the roller and lines uses somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 of a gallon, so keep that in mind when buying paint. This paint isn't lost, as when you are done rolling, you can take the roller cover off, let it drain back into the bucket, then take the feed tube out of the bucket, and with the bar over the paint can, pump air through the lines and force the paint back into the bucket. Also let gravity help you as air can pass the paint in the lines due to the size of the lines. A word of caution - please don't do what I did and, when cleaning the unit, place the handle in a bucket of water. Doing so lets water get into the button and air control tube and causes issues with turning it on and off. I have corrected this issue, but the less technically minded might find it difficult. One thing that would be nice is either a mode or a different option where, instead of the control button operating as a toggle of on/off, it would operate as a momentary push-button. This would make it simpler during operation of the unit, but with how long it takes to initially load up the line and roller, I can see why it's setup as a toggle. They recommend cleaning it up by using a single bucket of soapy water, pumping that through the unit some, and then pumping it back into an empty bucket. For my use, that seemed to leave way too much paint/stain in the unit, so I did this more like 4-5 times before I was done. And this was after having removed the roller cover, inner core, and two end caps and cleaning them separately in a laundry sink. For my taste, it felt like the cleanup was worse on this than an HVLP sprayer, but the mess while painting was definitely less.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The product worked great and was easy to set up. All you had to do was push the button for the paint to flow.. It was easy to use to paint my patio, but clean up took a little bit of time because you had all the hose to get all the paint out of. All in all the product worked very well

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I think the product did a good job and provides good coverage. However, it wasn't as easy as I'd like. Cleaning it was quite a chore! I live outside of the city, so I can't wash brushes in the sink because paint can't go into the septic tank. I had to wash the roller out in a bucket which took a long time. I normally buy rollers and throw them away instead of cleaning them out. There was also a learning curve and an adjustment period to get used to this machine. I used it to paint my dog's bedroom. The room was a darker beige color when we bought the house. I went with a lighter grey to brighten up the room. I would use this product again, but for a larger project. For just one small room, I don't think it was worth the hassle. I LOVE how long the hose was. I was able to reach everywhere without worrying about moving the paint can too often. I look forward to using it in the future on larger projects. It provided the coverage I needed with only one coat. The time it took to paint the room was much shorter.

The handle is so flimsy that it would crap if you put enough pressure on it to roll a very texturized wall. It work great for the first coat but when I went to put on the second coat the motor made a grinding noise and it wouldn't pump out paint

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Packaging was as expected. The instructions were concise and easy to follow. My plan was to prime 4 columns. The columns were prepped for priming. Instructions were easy to follow for setup, and setup was pretty easy. I also watch the video on the Wagner website and there was a slight difference for the placement of the paint can handle, I think its best to follow the more detailed written instructions. One example is how the video differs from the written instructions on where to put the handle for 1 gallon of paint on the material holder. Once I pressed the handle button, I was surprised of how much paint was sucked up from the paint can into the material holder, it was between 1/4 and 1/2 of the gallon of the can of paint. The columns have a design (see pictures) so the surface is not flat, the included roller was not able to provide good coverage of the parts of the column that had some depth, so I only painted two sides of one column. Even with following the directions there still was paint drips. The cleaning process was vey unpleasant. With the amount of paint that was sucked up and painting only two sides of the column, the paint recovery was minimal. Worse part of all, during the recovery process quite a bit of paint just splatter from the holes on the roller arm onto the ground, shutter, wall and the material holder, see picture. It created a big mess that extended the clean up time exponentially. After letting it sit for a while to completely drain after the cleaning, as soon as I moved it it drained more. The theory of being able to paint with a roller without a pan was something I was definitely looking forward to. Unfortunately the experience was not good. I think it would be nice if two rollers of different nap were included, especially one that could produce good results on a surface that is not flat. I am not sure why it splatter during clean up but that certainly made me not to want use it again.