Pressure sprayers
Gloria prima 5
A five-litre sprayer that publishes its pressure and can be fitted with a battery compressor instead of pumping.
It publishes its pressure
Up to 3 bar.
Four of the seven sprayers on this shelf do not state a pressure at all, which
is the equivalent of a kettle that does not say how much water it holds.
The three that do: this one at up to 3 bar, a knapsack at 2.5 to 3 bar, and a
battery model at 90 PSI — 6.2 bar.
So three bar is the normal working figure for a hand-pumped sprayer, and it is
worth knowing what it implies: enough to hold a fine mist, and something that
falls as you spray until you pump again.
The upgrade path, which is the interesting part
The listing’s last feature: no more manual pumping — with a separately available
18 V battery compressor from a common power-tool platform, pressure is built
automatically.
That is a genuinely unusual proposition on a shelf where everything else is
either hand-pumped forever or battery-powered from the start.
And the reason it matters is not effort.
Constant pressure changes the dose
A manual sprayer starts at its maximum and falls.
Pump it to 3 bar, and the first minute sprays a fine mist at a high rate. Two
minutes later it is at 1.5 bar and the same nozzle is producing a coarser spray
at a lower rate. You pump again, and it steps back up.
For watering that is irrelevant. For chemicals it is the whole point: the
dose applied per square metre depends on the flow, and the flow depends on the
pressure. A bed sprayed while the pressure falls gets an uneven application, and
the spray pattern changes as well as the quantity.
A compressor holds the pressure where it was set. That is the argument for one,
and it is stronger than “no more pumping”.
The plastic pump
Named in the listing: a robust plastic pump and a stable lance.
That is the honest description. Two sprayers on this shelf specify brass
nozzles, and one has a metal lance; this has neither, and the pressure is
made by a plastic cylinder.
For a sprayer used a dozen times a season it is adequate and it is what most of
this shelf uses. It is also where the wear happens, and it is the reason the one
sprayer here that sells spare seals and valves is worth reading about.
What is not stated
No trigger lock. Five of the seven sprayers here name one, and it is what
stops the hand aching over a long job.
No weight. One 5-litre sprayer on this shelf publishes under a kilogram.
No hose length. One publishes 130 cm, which decides whether the bottle is in
your hand or on the ground.
No nozzle material.
Wallpaper stripper
Mentioned in the listing as an indoor use, and it is worth repeating because it
is the sort of thing that gets a sprayer bought.
It also runs straight into the one rule that applies to every product on this
shelf: one sprayer, one purpose.
Whatever has been through the dip tube, the hose and the nozzle stays there.
Herbicide residue in particular survives rinsing, and a sprayer that has held
weedkiller will damage whatever it is pointed at next — indoors or out.
The answer is a second sprayer and a permanent marker, and the cheapest sprayer
on this shelf costs a fraction of this one.
Availability
From 26 € to 31 €, that being the spread across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores on the day of the survey.
Beyond the euro zone, the American and British Amazon stores price it in their own currencies, which the spread above sets aside.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
