Homax 41072041218 Texture Touch Up Kit, Wall and Ceiling Texture and Sprayer

This device works great. Well,... it worked great, for about an hour, then it didn't. After a while, no matter how hard I pumped, the mud just dribbled out the end. After disassembling a few times, and playing with viscosity (to no avail) I found that the tiny compressed air hole at the head end of the cylinder was mostly clogged. I cleaned that orifice with water, and the device worked great again. This is not the exit orifice. It's the one hidden inside the device. You must remove the pump to access it. Maybe it clogged because I let the device sit for too long while I was knocking down.A lot of people complain about this dribbling, rather than spraying. Perhaps they just haven't learned how to keep the compressed air hole clean.Also, people recommend viscosities from thick paint to pancake batter. Both work, as well as anywhere in between. But lighter is easier to pump.I'll never again buy spray cans of texture for touch up. This is better.

So if you’re doing tiny jobs with this, it’ll work great. Anything bigger and you’ll never match the texture that was set up before. It is a way to use, but it kills your arm after tons of pumping, so again, small jobs. It is super durable, I had stuff sitting on top of it as I stopped using it, which was an accident I forgot where I put it, and it has no cracks or damage to it. I did not use the texture that was given to me with the package, I had a different kind of texture that I use in house and it worked pretty well, it just didn’t match the texture that was already there. So dry times, same as normal. It is easy to use, instructions are not clear. Cleaning is super easy as well, dump in water shake it around a bit and boom, it’s clean. Might have to scrub the tight spots but all the same.

This miniature hopper worked great to re-texture a light orange peel in a small area of my 1/2 bath.As per the instructions, I cut the plastic around the nozzle and used a nail to poke a small hole in the center of the red cap above the hopper portion of the device. I mixed some joint compound to about the consistency of thinned out paint knowing that the joint compound will thicken very quickly.I poured the mix into the hopper while covering the nozzle with my finger to avoid spilling. Once assembled, I started at the lowest setting and slightly increased it before every pump until I matched the existing texture. The result was close to a perfect match and completely inconspicuous.I had previously tried different methods including a texture sponge and spray cans but neither worked well. The texture using a sponge didn't match and the spray looked good when first applied but then shrank way too much.Clean-up was easy. Before spraying I laid out towels to protect the surrounding areas. I then tossed the towels in the washer when done.

I am a big fan of the Homax aerosol spray texture touchups for small repairs. However, they are expensive and a one time use because the nozzle will dry and not work the same as the first use. I was hoping this could help me with a much larger repair job and could later be re-used for little jobs if I cleaned it up very well before the mud dried in the internals.Unfortunately this texture gun is a far cry from the quality of their Homax spray cans and even worse than the professional brass pump sprayers. The problem is a result of a very sloppy and short stroke pump that rather than a continuous volume of air to cry the mud droplets, the air discharge is more like a sloppy cough. If you try to slow down the pump speed, it does not hit the wall from 6 inches away. Not worth the headache....lost way too much time trying to make this work.

Ive textured walls before. I thought this would be better rhan the can stuff(which im not used ro useing) it was a little bit harder rhan i thought. I should have played with the product more before just using. After a few times it wasnt so bad, but messy. Easy to clean up.

Bueno

Very good

This item did not preform well for me. The mud was difficult to spray on the overhead areas.