Traditional Home Painting vs Spray Painting- SB Handyman

The big debate these days is to either use traditional painting tools such as paint brushes and paint roller or to use the newer spray painting technology.

Handyman Painter: The Painting Debate

Bigger painting companies are moving in the direction of using the air compressed spray painting gun. Why? It is fast and can cover a large ground in a small amount of time. What is the benefit for this? Well... Profit. You can hire many guys all with the gun and just spray a whole side of a wall pretty quickly. It does not require that much skill and can be used pretty easily. What's bad about this? Well the industry is moving in a direction of quicker, faster and easier. Whatever tools we can use to do the job quicker is always going to win out. But, with this newer technology we lose out on the craftsmanship and quite frankly the human element of being a painter. What happens now is that we get large companies that bust into your house and spray as much as they can in as short amount of time as they can. There is just a lack of that human element to it of a person in your house carefully cutting corners and gently applying a brush stroke to the wall. Less and less painters are using the brush and roller these days, and that is mainly just due to being quicker and gaining more profit.

SB Handyman's view on Painting :

We still use the traditional brush and roller technique. These still takes more time and is more of a skill, but we feel it will get into all the nooks and crannies, despite it taking longer. The one downsize to painting with rollers and brushes is the material costs. You may have to buy dozens and dozens of brushes and rollers per year (or more!). Truly though the craft of painting is an art and i personally believe having that skill of being able to paint with different brushes and rollers is something that should not be lost

What do you think?

Would you rather hire someone with air compressed spray painter or use a brush and roller?

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