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I hate painting.

There I said it. I hate masking. I hate the ladders. I hate cleaning the brushes and rollers afterwards.

Not only do I hate painting, I’m not very good at it either. No matter how carefully I mask, the paint seeps under the tape … ANY kind of tape. No matter how carefully I spread the paint, I get blotches … on the walls AND on me!

Point N Paint After Use

Imagine my excitement the first time I saw the commercial for the Point N Paint (PNP). I paused the TV and made hubby come look. We were one of their first customers — like a year or so ago.

I finally broke out the contraption a few weeks ago to paint the basement, all by my lonesome, too, because hubby was away for a few days.

So, is this popular As Seen On TV item as good as I thought? Well, yes and no.

I did not mask ANYTHING. Nor did I drag out the ladder. When we bought the item, it didn’t come with an extension pole. Does it come with one now? I think it does now, but I’m not positive. Anyway, hubby had a paint pole that fits the Point N Paint’s little do-daddy and that’s how I started — the PNP on hubby’s pole. Um, that sounds more risque than I intended.

Swivel Issue

Issue number one was quite apparent very quickly. The swivel on the large thing-a-ma-bob (TAMB) cannot be locked down. Nope. As I painted the ceiling, the PNP spun every which way. However, it was still much better than breaking out the ladder or dealing with a splattering roller. After getting used to the PNP’s wild spinning, it went pretty smoothly.

The PNP is great around trim. Only operator error (painter trying to catch her balance) caused a few blotches on the base board. Unfortunately, the clever engineering that saves having to mask trim also causes issue number two. Issue number two was the PNP doesn’t do corners … at all. Corners still requiree a brush with this system. I used a throwaway sponge brush. See above where I hate cleaning brushes.

Attaching Small TAMB to Large TAMB

The PNP comes with a large TAMB and a small TAMB, which makes you think that you have two tools, right? Wrong. The small TAMB has to click on to the large TAMB in order to use the large TAMB without a pole. Did that make sense? Well, if you’ve already used the small TAMB to do the trim work, then it has a wet pad attached to it. You must remove said wet paint pad to place it on the large TAMB. That was issue number three.

Issue number four was getting the little TAMB securely attached to the large TAMB. Fair warning, take the time to really make sure it clicks down in there.

Now for the good points of the PNP.

As promised, the PNP did NOT drip — at least until the pad was completely saturated with paint 2 days later. Hey, it takes me awhile, okay? If you’re like me and take a few days to get a room painted, I recommend washing out the pads between days. The pads dried up and got hard.

Again, I didn’t mask at all — saving oodles and oodles of time. I did have to use a step stool to reach the corners of wall and ceiling, but no ladder was necessary to do 99% of the ceiling. That’s an important plus for someone who gets vertigo in 2 inch heels.

Paint coverage was very good, as good as or better than a roller without the splattering of a roller.

Final clean up was fast. The pads washed out quickly and the paint peeled right off roller bin thingy.

I give the PNP a thumbs up. Although I still HATE painting, the PNP did make it far less painful. I do plan on buying another to alleviate issue number three.

How did the basement turn out? Well, I’m still putting it back together, so stay tuned for a before and after!

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