Shur-Line 2006561 Paint Edger Pro with Two Pack of 2001044 Painter’s Pad Refills

At first it looks and feels a little flimsy but it works great. Gets paint to the edge without marking other side. Easy to clean...and pad is very easy to reuse.Few tips - start 1 inch from edge and glide towards edge and then slide along. Repeat this every feet....especially if you unpainted streaks. When loading paint, just barely dunk it into paint tray....try to be level but ensure top part is little more into paint and then wipe excess. Ensure wheels are clean before painting.When reusing pad...move it around until it clicks before dipping it into paint....it has a specific orientation.Definitely made painting faster and easier....only used tape for weird angles.

Love this set for general painting and not just the edges even though this is what these are meant for. The holder in this set is much better than the basic one we had which doesn't have the black handle part. This one locks in the pads much better so that they don't shift and fall out while painting and that's very important. Price is higher on these things so 1 star knocked off for that, and no one has made generic versions of them yet (I think one of the big box does have their own store brand version but not for much less), so this company effectively has a monopoly on the tech and design. We are able to reuse the pad so it cuts down on the cost. My husband prefer painting using these pads with the holder vs rollers which he finds much harder to use and eats up a lot more paint. This painting holder allows for more control and amount of paint and application, but it is a bit slower. For home jobs, this will do but not for commercial jobs of large surfaces, which is why good paint rollers still rule the day and cost so much. This thing is pretty durable, we have dropped the holder and the applicator pads quite a few times and they hold up, but eventually the pads can crack. Easy to install, just snap in the pads into the holder, the design is good, and the pads don't leave paint lines that would require extra work to go over, the plastic is durable and damage/scratch resistant.

I bought this thinking it probably would work but not all that well. I figured I'd end up having to call a pro to make the job look decent.But it worked very well. Very, very well. I'm a believer. I used it to paint the high edges of a formal three-story staircase, complete with lots of curved plaster, in our 150-year-old house. It got the edges perfectly, better than the previous job which was done by a contractor. And I got it done in less than two hours. Like others, I brushed the paint onto the pads, and had to fiddle with it a bit to get the feel of the thing, but it did a good job everyplace but one corner, which obviously was never square in the first place. Clean up was easy, and I found that the pad reallyheld a lot of paint -- more than you'd think by looking at it.FWIW, I almost never write product reviews, unless the item is exceptionally good or exceptionally bad. This was exceptionally good. Worth every penny.

I bought this to paint my open stairwell, since I was unwilling to hire the work out and didn't want to invest in some complicated ladder system to use as scaffolding over the stairs. I went into painting thinking that this was the best of limited options and my expectations were low. It worked...fine. The concept is good but execution is difficult without lots of practice. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos on the advice of other reviewers to make sure I knew how much paint should be loaded onto the pad each time and any other tips for using the tool. I practiced, and it did a good job on the section of the wall where I could hold the unit in my hand with a ladder - nice clean edges up against the ceiling and door molding without any marking on the ceiling. BUT be wary when you are using it on an extension pole. To get a clean line and to keep the tool from rotating to the side you have to keep steady, firm pressure in the middle of the unit, but the limited vertical tilt means you have to be standing exactly beneath the tool (where you can't exert much pressure at all with a pole). I had assumed when I purchased that the vertical tilt where the tool attaches to a pole was such that I could have used it on the ceilings as well, but that's not possible due to the way it is designed. I have a bunch of gray paint marks on my ceiling now, but the walls are done and I'm considering it good enough. But I will need to hire someone to come and paint the ceiling.Note that in all the videos I saw, the pros were using it either in hand or on a very short (1-2 foot) pole - I think it works best in that circumstance but wouldn't recommend it on an extension pole unless you have limited options and low expectations for final product like me!

I should have known better. This product didn't work years ago.But, I saw a Youtube video demonstrating its benefits and thought maybe it has improved over the years. No. Save your money and use tape and a cut-in brush. It may take a bit longer, but in the end your project will look much better.

Worked great attached to a pole to paint house trim around the roof, no taping required. Probably on the edge of roughness the pads were designed for; but it still saved so much time.