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PAINT ROLLER
Before you begin painting, you must have the right tools for the job. One should know what type and quality of paint roller to buy. For large, flat surface areas like walls and ceilings, paint roller will help you get the job done in about half the amount of time it would take with a paintbrush.
Most painters use brushes for trim work and around windows and doors, then turn to rollers to fill in the big blank spaces. These are a variety of painting tools available in the market and it is difficult to decide which is the right one to buy. Here are a few tips to help you buy the right rollers for painting.
• Sizes
Rollers for painting flat areas come in varying widths - from 2" to 18", but the two most common sizes for interior jobs are 4" and 7" wide.
• Roller Cover's Nap
The roller package will also identify the length of the roller cover's nap or pile, which can vary from 5mm to 20mm. Choose a shorter nap (11mm or 13mm) for painting smooth indoor surfaces, and large nap (15mm or 20mm) for rougher surfaces including textured walls, masonry and stucco.
• Material of Nap
There is also a broad range of roller cover made of synthetic fibers:
Polyamide - Polyamide is a universal purpose roller, high durability, good taking and releasing. To be used with emulsion paints, latex paints, gloss and enamel paints.
Polyester - Polyester is the most popular cover fabric with good area coverage and good recovery after being crushed. Its absorbency of paint improves with pile height increasing, especially food for water-based paints.
Nylon - Polyamide yarn pile, extremely hardwearing and robust. For all type of coating, solvent-based lacquers, water-based lacquers, especially for polyester and epoxy resins. Also recommended for industrial coating compounds.
Micro Fiber - Very fine fiber, excellent painting result. Used for thin layer glazes and low viscosity penetrating agent, especially for primer coating on metal surfaces.
Velour - Wool acrylic. Specially made for all type of viscid and intensively solvent containing lacquers, thickly viscous lacquers, oil-based paints and other coating such as sealers, primers and varnishes of all kinds, especially when you have to paint a smooth surface.
Acrylic - It is a lint-free blend of polyamide and poly-acrylic for all paints with good paint absorbency and large area coverage. Universal for inner wall and ceiling.
Foam - Polyurethane component. Foam is usually applied to the oil-based paints. You might use for smooth surfaces like finishing wood surfaces or metal surfaces.
Epoxy Roller
Epoxy roller can apply a thin even coat of resin quickly. The roller allows great control of how the resin is applied, this is very important because this allows you to roll on resin on the cloth bias.
Exterior Roller
Painting the entire exterior of a house is dreadful proposition to many do-it-yourself homeowners, and it is natural to seek shortcuts and labour-saving methods to reduce the effort in this necessary home-maintenance chore.
Interior Roller
When using a roller to paint interior walls it is very important that the proper techniques are used in order to get a smooth and beautiful finish. One of the most important steps in your interior paint job is picking the roller.
Mini Roller
Mini roller does not release a lot of paint but deliver a smooth finish, it perfectly for painting metal doors, finished wood, or paneling. Domed ends can get into corner and small radiuses will fit behind crowed spaces.
