Compared to our old paint sprayer this has minimal overspray. DOES NOT CLOG!!! It coats the paint fairly evenly and is a breeze to clean up. It also makes the most of your paint, for some reason our old paint sprayer went through paint quickly. Our estimates on how much coverage we needed would always be grossly off by 2 gallons (ish), part of the issue is it took a lot of paint to prime it. This actually saved us a bit of money because it didn't waste the paint. We painted our bathroom with a semi-glass latex no issues, went smoothly. We'll be doing our fence this summer with a oil based fence paint so we'll see how that goes. This is such an improvement on other paint sprayers we have owned and used over the years, and they were more expensive than this one. It seems like it will hold up for a long time provided you take care of it.