Ratings & Reviews for Wagner 7-in x Smart Sidekick Powered Roller Smooth Paint Roller Cover

Fast ceiling and wall coverage.

The unit worked as expected painting walls and ceiling with good coverage in minimal time. Cleanup took a about 20 minutes to clear the hose and wipe it all down to put away. It's too bad the pump control can't be located on the extension handle for painting the ceiling or high walls. Otherwise it worked great for my project.

Easy to use and a big helper

We had 8 large areas/rooms in the house so this was totally worth $80 to not have to keep loading paint on the roller. A friend recommended it to me and I feel like I owe him a beer for suggesting it. Its kind of cumbersome to clean, not hard, you just need a process and 15 minutes to get it really clean. We finished painting late one night and instead of cleaning everything up, we just put wet towels and saran-wrap around the end of the tube that collects the paint, and the roller. The next day...

Made Painting Easy!

We are painting a new construction home and this tool has made it so easy. I would never paint again without it! (Pros- fast cleanup, keeps roller full of paint with a touch of a button. Con- this is the only con... the button on the roller handle does get stuck sometimes, but it is an easy fix.) Thank you for a great tool.

Not for amateurs.

Cumbersome. Poor instructions. Good possibility it's my inexperience. Was not practical for my project.

Muy Recomendable

Compre este producto hace mas de un año y sigue funcionando como el primer día. Es muy eficiente, facil de usar y se limpia rapidamente. Lo recomiendo ampliamente para todo tipo de proyecto interior. Excelente calidad y excelentes resultados como Wagner me tiene acostumbrado.

Awesome unit

This is great. Saves time for large areas. Would recommend to others.

Works well except for on-off pushbutton

I just painted my new (large) garage with the Wagner Sidekick. It does save a lot of time especially on the walls. Ceilings are another matter but a small fix in the product would help ceilings go infinitely faster with less lap marks. So listen up Wagner. The on-off pushbutton to activate the pump not only works badly with intermittent failure to turn off or time delays in that, but it is badly positioned on the handle. Lets take the position first. If you are doing a ceiling you wil...

Easy to set-up and use

I have 12ft Pop corn ceilings and have to use a latter. This make it easy to reach and roll them without getting up and down the latter a lot. It works well with a short extension. I did have to change rollers about every gallon of paint. The rollers would get clogged up from the pop corn and start leaking paint out the sides. It was easier to change rollers then to clean them. Clean we fast and easy.

Long time fan

Well,,, I had your older version that took 4-D batteries and it finally died. It served me well since 2000 and I have probably sold more of them than most of your salesman I liked it so much. So I bought this one and there are some serious pros and cons. 120v ac, awesome. Long roller cord, awesome. Direct paint bucket feed, awesome. No speed control? Sucks, this thing puts out more paint than I could cover on a driveway. Handle extension option, half cool, would only be usable with a rem...

Fast and Easy

This is a great product. It delivers plenty of paint with the touch of a button. You can paint a room so much faster then the conventional way. I'm never going back to the old way of painting, never. The delivery tube is nice and long. It cleans ups really easy.

did lower level

painted my lower level, took about 1 1/2. 5 years ago without sidekick took 4 hours. clean-up was slick

Works awesome!

Have used my Roller on 3 occasions so far. It works great and clean up is easy. A very good investment.

don't paint without it

i have painted a lot of houses. I will never paint another without my sidekick. time is money and this saves so much time.

The Wagner Sidekick is one awesome tool! This was a great purchase for me. Saves tons of time and super easy cleanup!

Painted a three bedroom Two and a half bath townhouse today with this produced. Just want to say i love, love, love it! Super easy to use and clean after use. This roller system prevents you from dripping paint on the floor and wasted time going back and forth to refill your roller in a paint pan.

Great Product

This power roller works great. You can fly through a paint job with this unit. Painted my master bedroom and bathroom in an hour. Second coat took 15 minutes. Never dripped even once. No need for drop cloths. Clean up is automatic, just be sure to put lots of Dawn dish soap in the first bucket of warm water and do it outside. I prefer to trash the rollers instead of cleaning them. Just depends on your budget.

Started of strong and fizzled out.

At first I was very impressed with this roller. I painted my ceiling in probably half the time of a regular roller. Then I cleaned it to switch colors for my wall. I meticulously cleaned it like the manual said to , and lubricated the seals. It went fine for awhile then small drips at the handle connection to the roller. then it started to stream out. took it apart clean it and same thing. replaced the o-ring and it was fine for awhile and then same thing. then it started leaking out of the roll...

This product is great but with some flaws.

Lots to paint and this looked like a great time saver. It works good if you don't mind paint running down the handle and your arm. I read the reviews and saw that this could be a problem. I thought since it was an old review the problem had been taken care of. It also said that perhaps they put it together wrong is why it leaked. I put it together exactly as instructed, there was no error. It still leaked. I am very disappointed. If this problem was fixed it would be a 5 star.

What a Great Time-Saving Tool! It made a difficult job easy and fun.

I bought this tool after much research to ensure I was getting a product that would do exactly what I wanted it to. My daughter just bought a condo and every room needed to be painted. I DID NOT want to use the traditional paint rollers and trays. This tool was perfect! It was easy to set up and start to paint the room. I only wish I has bought two (2) of these. I could have used one and my daughter the other one. We would have painted these rooms in half the time. Surprisingly, the clean-up aft...