Thoughts on Home Depot mold foggers?
Looking to go out and buy/rent a couple of those anti-mold foggers that are stainless steell and look like Alladdin's lamp and use in my crawlspace which flooded recently. Any comments or experiences using these? Gort a brother in Ohio who swears by them after using it to clear a basement out on a repo home he bought/invested in recently. I.m in the mold business and we stopped using the foggers years ago. The reason why is they don't put enough chemical on to the area fast enough. We have been using airless sprayers for spraying chemicals. Id get an airless sprayer and take care of it right the first time. I would tend to agree with airman. If it available to the public at a big box store, it is probably watered down. If it says 'made in China', forget it, you have not idea what is in it. Would like to buy a fogger for myself if i can find one of reasonable value. Some I've seen via google doesn't look any more complicated than the foggers you buy for halloween parties. What are airless foggers? Where can I order/buy one? Airless sprayers not foggers. K....what exactly is an airless sprayer? Where could I purchase one, at the big box or online? If online got a website or particular type recommended on a reasonable budget I could find on google or something? An airless sprayer is actually a pump. It sucks paint out of the container [usually a 5 gallon bucket] and pumps it thru a high pressure line to a gun. The gun can hold an assortment of tips which along with the pressure regulator can further dial in the size of the spray fan and the amount of material released. An airless is mainly used for spray painting but it can also be used to spray chemicals and with the bigger units, can sometimes be used to spray certain textures. The cost of an airless is directly related to it's quality and output. You can buy a small diy type airless for a few hundred dollars or less [these usually have a diaphram pump which isn't as reliable as a piston pump] or in excess of 5k for a heavy duty commercial pump. I'd don't know if the airless's for sale at the big box stores are worth their price. I've always bought airless and airless supplys at the local paint store. I've only owned piston pumps and for commercial painting any pump that puts out less than 1/2 gallon per minute is too small for my needs. A smaller pump should spray chemicals fine but may or may not be suitable for your painting needs - if any. You can rent an airless at most any tool rental store and at some paint stores. So essentially it's a paint spray gun? So I could theoretically use a air compressor, hoses, etc. and a paint sprayer configuration and get the job done myself? What if I just used a standard 101 pump sprayer with the mildew/mold stuff and just sprayed the crap out of everything vice all this trouble? Does it have to be so complicated? It is not complicated. A paint spray gun is not an airless sprayer. It does not have enough volume. A pump up sprayer will be a lot better than a spray gun. What kind of chemicals do you plan to use?
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