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High-Boy vs. Low-Boy and Hose Management

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AMAZING Paint Sprayers. Titan 1140 Review

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The reviewer discusses the debate between 'high-boy' and 'low-boy' sprayer options. While high-boys allow a 5-gallon bucket to be hung and wheeled around, preventing the need to carry the bucket, he clarifies his preference for the low-boy. For residential exterior painting, he prefers to set the pump in one location and use extensive hose lengths (a 3/8-inch main hose followed by two or three 1/4-inch hoses) that can reach around an entire house. This method eliminates the need to constantly move the pump, significantly reducing pump wear due to less frequent cycling, which he believes is a superior approach to managing large painting projects.

Goal: Understand optimal sprayer and hose setup for large residential painting projects.

Tools and materials

  • 1/4-inch Hoses — Extension hoses to increase reach
  • 3/8-inch Hose — Primary hose for long-distance paint delivery
  • Titan 1140 Airless Sprayer Titan — Illustrating the low-boy setup

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customer service it does have the option right here where you can hang a 5 gallon bucket tilt it back and you can wheel it around and that's one of the reasons why a lot of guys um a lot of guys like the high boy option CU you can take and wheel your pump around not have to carry the 5 gallon bucket we like the lowboy option with the lowboy option you're going to have to carry the bucket and wheel your five your um sprayer around at the same time but that and that's a really good option for guys doing new construction the High boys cuz they're tilting their sprayers back to clean them paint is you know pouring off the intake tube onto the ground or onto the dirt and they're typically at job sites where that does not matter but we're doing residential homes and that spilling of paint just becomes kind of um a little bit messy and an option we don't like the uh coating on it here is you a little bit faded a little bit worn out and that's because when we first got it we used to clean it every day with simple green kind of wore the coating out a little bit so I don't think I'd recommend doing what we were doing and and it scrub scrubbing it down with simple green like we were doing we started wearing the coating you know off on it and it stripped the clear coat off that plastic um housing you know pretty quick so something I probably wouldn't recommend doing we typically you know we're we like our big pumps and one of the reasons why we like big pumps you know for uh doing our exteriors on our houses instead of say like a Titan 440 I had a Titan 440 for the first 3 years of my business and that I use it exclusively doing res re paints and new construction it can't handle the tip size a big pump like this can handle a lot larger tips like 12 26s 12 21s which can spray heavier Coatings like block fillers and elastomeric Coatings the other thing is we like running a whole lot of Hose so I've got a lot of Hose right here these pumps we can hook up multiple hoses together I can set this pump in one location and typically this hose will work around the entire house so the pump will never have to move and that's you know one of the reasons why even for a lowboy option for us a low boy is not a bad thing because we're typically not moving our pumps around so we're running the 3/8 in hose is our first hose length coming off the pump and then we're typically running two or three4 in hoses after that and what happens is by having a larger hose right here you work your…

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