Stucco Sprayer for Ceilings and Walls, Plaster, Texture - Made in the USA - One Year Warranty

I normally never write reviews for anything so take that for what it's worth. I was hesitant to buy this tool because I was worried that my compressor wouldn't provide enough SCFM and I was worried whether or not this tool was worth the money. I have a little 8 gallon 120v Husky compressor and I used this tool to do a scratch and brown coat on my shed. I had about 350 square feet to cover and this sprayer really helped a lot. I sprayed the stucco on, and my father-in-law would come in behind me and darby it smooth. If you really needed to coat a huge surface area I would recommend renting, buying, or borrowing a serious compressor with a 3/8" hose attachment and a high flow. Things you should know before buying this: -This works just fine with a 120v home compressor, you just have to make sure that you take breaks for your compressor to catch up. If you need to keep spraying straight through till the end, get a larger compressor. With the small breaks of mixing stucco, moving ladders, and other small tasks my compressor was able to keep up easily. -Using a 120v compressor, I had the tool setup with two of the smaller apertures for the side holes and the middle hole plugged. -The build quality of the tool is high--fit and finish are great--all the seams line up and the folds in the sheet metal are money. I feel like this was built to a very strict standard, yet it's pleasingly simple. -You can use the tool easily with the long handle attachment, or just the short sprayer handle -Keep spraying down the tool as you are using it, making sure to keep it clean and it will run great. -The tool comes with a 3/8"automotive to 3/8"npt attachment to connect to your air supply. My compressor has a 3/8" hose but the fittings were 1/4"industrial to 1/4"npt. I changed out to the 3/8" fittings to help with flow. I did not do my color coat with this, but it was great with my scratch and brown coat. I am an electrician so I don't know a whole lot about masonry, but I think this tool is great for the DIYer with limited manpower and who might not posses Popeye forearms. If I never use this tool again I would say that it paid for itself with just my shed. This tool is high quality though and I'm sure I'll be using it many years down the road.

It seems a bit pricey but this thing will last forever with just a little care. I had doubts about it working with my Porter Cable compressor. It is rated at the minimum of 6 cubic ft @ 90 psi. My doubts were erased the first load of mortar I ran through the sprayer. I had more than enough air without ever waiting on the compressor to catch up. The material goes up quick with very little waste.

It’s a great tool that operates as designed. Some things to keep in mind. 1. When using a hopper gun to spray mortar/cement, you will have to use a little more water in your mix then you would if you were trowel applying. It may take a couple of mixes to get the ratio correct. 2. The “gallon” size of your air compressor means absolutely nothing!!!! And don’t let the horsepower rating fool you either. Cheap big box store compressors over rate the motors to make them seem more powerful. The only thing that matters is CFM@PSI. Your compressor will need to deliver at least 12cfm at 90psi to run this gun. But the more volume the better. I used a 30cfm@90psi compressor with 3/4” Chicago hose to run mine. That may be overkill but I had no problems. 3. Hose size. If you use 3/8” hose with the standard 1/4” couplers on both ends you can expect at least a 7-10psi pressure drop over 50’ in length. You can remedy this by either increasing the pressure at the compressor (assuming your compresso can handle it), use a shorter 3/8” hose, or use 1/2” hose with 3/8” couplers. Any good local tool or contractor supplier will have 1/2” hose and 3/8” couplers. To screw your coupler to the gun just go to the hardware store and buy the right size pipe bushing to adapt it.

Got this to fill in sections of stucco where I had installed narrower windows on the front of my house and moved another window to be in front of my kitchen sink at the back of the house. I’m in construction but never messed with stucco. After a bit of searching on the web I figured the finish on the house was from being blown on rather than troweled. This one was more expensive than others on Amazon but I believe you get what you pay for and got this one. It’s very solid and has a good rugged lever to control the air. It took a bit of experimenting to get the same finish but the finished wall looks good. There was a coarser finish on the front of the house as it was a former porch that was closed in but I was able to match it also. I sold my big 2 stage Rol Air last year and has twin stack Dewalt which puts out over 4 cfm at 90 psi so I blocked off two of the 3 nozzles since I didn’t have a lot of air to spare. It worked but I would say that’s a minimum. I had to stop to let the compressor catch up. It wouldn’t do a full hopper without the air going too low to blow the stucco on the wall There are 3 orfices and 2 sizes of jets to screw in at the bottom of the hopper so if you had three large jets installed and a larger compressor and someone mixing stucco you could do large areas easily . I was just afraid of getting a stucco contractor and the money that would cost, even for three windows so I opted for this unit. A cheaper one may do you, but this one is not going to fall apart and it has the large and small jets included plus the rubber plugs to block off the holes so that the stucco is blown out of only one or two holes if there’s not enough volume of air. I’m going to use it again on another house to blow stucco on the chain wall and piers across the front so it will pay for itself but I might rent a larger compressor If you have the mixture very wet some of the water will drain out of the bottom of the hopper so you have to work pretty fast. With a large compressor it could blow a stiffer consistency of stucco so all round a bigger compressor is the bee’s knee’s