The commercial for the point n paint may inspire you to change out that drab room in your house... It looks so clean and easy.
The ad says the product is the "best edger ever" gets "Perfect results every time."
Jeff Cutliff, the owner of 1st Class Painting lent us his expertise to put the point and paint to the test.
Jeff rolls the small pad over the roller and we try it along the edges of a switch cover.
"Iin order to get it all the way up against it, I end up having to get some on the switch cover. To me as a professional painter, that's not acceptable," he says.
We turn to the molding edge, and have even less luck. Jeff notices an uneven line that leaves a gap in some places and gets on the trim in others. And there's another problem...
"It's putting too much paint along the outside edge, and, it's not even across the entire surface."
Jeff takes another go at it...
"There's still too much paint all the way up against the trim, all the way to the edge. And that's going to have a tendency to run," he says.
But the ad says "no runs"
A few minutes later, we see several drip marks!
We switch out the small pad with the large one... And find it's equally tough to get a consistent paint line in the corner. A gap is unavoidable, unless you press hard enough that it leaks onto the molding.
Next we try the face of the wall to see if there are truly "no brushstrokes"
"I can't keep it from not spinning as I'm going up and down. And it's very odd swirl marks that's going to translate through the finish," he says.
The makers of the point n paint had this response to our testing.
"Like all items there is a learning curve. The more you use the item the faster you get at it.... Please note that there were approximately 1 million units sold last year with virtually no complaints."
We also compare it to a roller. During our test run Jeff discovers something else concerning about the point n paint...
"That's nice, it came unscrewed and dropped on my pants here," he said.
As for the no drib claim, true the point n paint holds the paint a little better than a paint brush, but it still drips.
Jeff's final opinion:
"With my painting experience, there's no way I would use this. A novice painter would get incredibly frustrated very very quickly."
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