Accubrush XT Paint Edger Jumbo Kit with Video

First off, I must admit that I hate edging. I will roll all day, but hate edging. To me it is what makes the paint job look good or bad - professional or garbage. Pair this with any relevant OCD and you have a recipe for disaster. With that said, it is nearly impossible to perfectly edge/cut with a paintbrush - it will be wavy to a degree. Sure, you can attempt in using a piece to block it or use tape, but really, those have their issues as well. With the paint blocker you will get paint seem through and get on the back of your edger, then when you move along you will distrubute that paint elsewhere. With tape, your paint seeps through/under at points, especially if you have textured walls. With that said, this is as good as you can get with relative ease. Is it perfect? No. Does it work pretty damn well. YES! The device is essentially a roller with a guard and a paint brush. Each of them feed each other paint to get close to the edge. Because they ride together the line is straight. So long as you make sure your paint stays on the correct side of the guard then you'll do pretty well. You will have to wipe the metal edger and the wheel on occasion - be ready for this. Also, make sure that you are rolling the correct way - the roller should be the trailing edge (I'm not sure why, but I thought that the brush was the training edge). The bad part of this is as follows. you have to load the roller up with a lot of paint. The more, the better the line looks. The problem with this is that obviously too much will cause you to drip or worse, seep under the guard if you make too many passes over wet paint and thus transfer to the wall side. So be sure to have a drop cloth of some sort under the area you are painting. This is important too - this will not save you from edging with a brush. Let me repeat this - this will NOT save you from edging with a brush. This roller needs room to work and if you have an area that is 6" long then it is almost pointless to use this roller because it will only be able to edge about 2" of that 6" wall. Secondly, it can only do flat surfaces. If you have any curves or imperfections in your wall then you will have to edge with a brush. TIP: Have someone feather out the hard wet paint line behind you. Despite these negatives I still love this roller. I was able to edge entire 20' walls, top and bottom, with this in the same time it took me to edge with a brush about 10". I did mess up in some areas - dripped paint and whatnot - but hey, I had an entire 2000 sqft home to paint. My OCD is still bothered by the small mishaps but I almost guarantee that the same mishaps would have happened if I did it by brush... so why not do it in a fraction of the time?

It does not work...the roller it comes with is so knappy it keeps hitting the frame and dripping down the wall...it doesnt get right the edge of trim...the little brush hits trim sides...it simply bounces around and wont roll straight...it sucks complwtely...i just have to learn to cut in with an angle brush cause this didnt help at all...it is cheaply made for $100 and not worth $10 ...i couldnt get it to work...u cant load it with enough paint to cover and does not save time lile i was hoping...the roller is an odd size so u cannot change roller nap lengths for different needs...u r forces to use their crappy rollers that are way too nappy and are not a standard size...this device is useless and way overpriced...

When I first got it, I was amazed. I was able to finish a room with 12' ceilings in record time. I used it along the ceiling, door frames, window frames, and baseboard no problem. I even bought extra rollers and brushes. I never had a problem with it bleeding onto the ceiling or frames because every time I brought it down to refill the roller, I just wipe the edge, it was very easy. The parts are pretty cheap though and the edge that keeps the roller paint on the right side has a plastic edge and that edge has worn off and it's just not holding up as well. I am still able to use it, but it is not making a crisp perfect line along the edge like it did when I first got it. Like I said, still helpful, but probably not worth the price tag. I only got about 6-8 walls edged before it started to show wear.

I had been eyeing this product for a couple months. Watching videos of people using it. I finally pulled the trigger on buying after receiving a $980 quote for painting our foyer. Hard to stomach since the height was the ONLY reason we considered paying someone else. Was a bit scared to ruin the ceiling. But it HAD to get done. This baby DID the job! PERFECT solution for the determined DIYer. You MUST watch how-to videos for tips. A couple things I learned: 1. It leaves a pretty thick layer of paint so feather it out where your rolling will meet. Just open the guard and roll the line as you would with a regular roller. 2. you will be left with about an1/8" of unpainted wall just below the crease of the ceiling. If your new color is similar, you won't even notice. BUT, if there's a HUGE contrast, you'll see the line of unpainted wall. You'll need to hand cut in to fix which may be a problem for high ceilings. 3. roll AWAY from your painted line. Some reviews were unfair because the user was rolling the wrong direction. 4. If using the extension bar, you must apply enough pressure against the wall to keep the unit as flat to the wall as possible to get a solid clean line. This can be tricky if working at an angle but totally doable. 5. If using over 2 days, pitch the old roller and mini brush attachment with new ones. extras of both come in the kit 6. take your time and grab a partner if using a ladder. I handed the unit with extension to my husband for each paint reload to keep me from going up and down the ladder. Saved a TON of time 7. Once done pitch roller and attachment and wipe all paint residue to prevent buildup. Especially on the guard. I picked off all the hardened paint on the guard where it meets the wall before storing away. Saved me $980 bucks! JUST BUY IT and TRY IT. Worked well for us. We used this with a rented extension ladder for our foyer.

I'm a professional paint contractor and never buy gadgets. This was a special situation and I took a $100 chance. To my surprise, this thing works. It's quite amazing actually. I wore it out in just few weeks though. Seems to expensive for cheap plastic that wears out. Would great for home owners that will never use it enough to wear it out. To the owner, consider making a true contractor grade unit. I'd pay more for one that would last. The problem was the wheel. The plastic on plastic of the spinning caused them to fail after less than 100 hours of use.

For the very basic purpose, I guess it is okay. over all for and I am on a new DIY, just did not work the way I expected. few complaints. the roller sucked to much paint. maybe a different style of ( material ) for the roller may work better. this brings me to my next to complaints, because of the roller and the amount of paint it holds it did not leave a clean strait edge. Also since you have to apply a little pressure when using over head the paint seem to drip from the roller and that adds more clean up or extra work depending on where the paint drips.I am no expert by any means, and this edger does cut down on the use of tape but had to go behind for clean up and touch up.

I am blown away with this product. I have a 15 foot high high pitched vaulted ceiling. There are 4 brown exposed beams with 4 feet of space between them. I tried taping and the white paint showed up on some of the beams. And behind on a 10 foot ladder added to the difficulty. When I tried the Accubrush, I wasn't expecting much. But I was surprised. It painting a great trim. Just like the ad claimed. It cut down my painting time and forget about that prep work. I am so happy I bought this XT, it is worth every penny.

I bought this item in December for future use. In February I began painting my two-story house and tried out this highly bragged about Accubrush tool for painting along the edges of trim and the ceiling. Let me tell you, this was a big mistake! My wife and I bought the best that Accubrush had to offer with all of the extras. We happily watched the demonstration video that came with the tool several times, marveling at how wonderful it spread paint so evenly. When we applied paint to the roller and began our project, that's when our problems began. To our horror, nothing worked as well as shown on the online demonstration video or our own video-CD. The roller did not lay paint as nice as shown, nor did the brush. In fact, it was extremely difficult to gauge the amount of paint (we were using premium paint)to apply to the roller. It would either drip or skip the smooth surface of our smooth walls. The brush would over paint the edge to the other wall. I'm thankful we did not try it along our ceiling, as all of the attempts on the walls were trial runs. We ended up wiping all the paint off of the walls. After several hours of the day wasted, we decided to paint the old-fashioned way, with a proper brush along the edges. Beautiful! I learned a valuable lesson her. Do not believe everything you see! This product requires a lot of practice and patience, which obviously do not have. By the way,, Accubrush thinks so much of their product they only allow a 30-day warranty. Our warranty ran out before we attempted to use the tool so we are out over 100 dollars for a cheap piece of plastic. Good Luck!