Applying Emulsion With a Roller
Applying emulsion using a roller is the quickest way of covering a sizable surface area, although you may require more coats than when painting using a brush because the paint goes on quite thinly with a roller. Roller sleeves are available in many sizes and textures. Choose #a short#-pile sleeve for the smooth wall surface, and a shaggy sheepskinstyle sleeve for a more textured surface. The parts the roller cannot reach will have to get finished using a brush. Solid non-drip emulsion, which comes in a tray, is also applied with a roller. While you apply the roller, the paint liquefies and allows the roller to pick up the right amount of paint.
1 Pour the emulsion paint into the paint tray reservoir - it ought to be about a third full. Dip the roller sleeve into the paint and roll it confidently up and down the tray’s ribbed slant to spread the paint evenly. Do not overload the sleeve or paint will splash everywhere.
2 Move the roller over the wall surface, using random strokes applied with a lightweight, even pressure. Try not to paint too fast or you will develop a fine mist of paint spray. On every occasion the roller is dipped in your paint, move it #to an# adjacent unpainted area and work your way back to your painted area in overlapping strokes to blend with the wet edges.
Using Paint Pads:
Paint pads come in several sizes. They are flat and rectangular with closely packed short fibres glued with a foam backing strip, which makes the pad bendy. Pads are good for painting big areas with liquid paint - the bigger the pad, the faster you cover the surface. They make less spray and mess than rollers, but they will need reloading with paint more regularly. Use a paint pad tray which includes a built-in ribbed roller on which excess paint can be removed.
1 Pour the paint into the paint pad tray, then draw the pad over the built-in roller to allocate the paint evenly and take away any excess - a paint pad will #give a# patchy finish if it is loaded unevenly, and will drip if there is too much paint on it.
2 Start painting next to a corner and work in strips about four times the width of your pad. Keeping the pad flat on the wall, move it up and down the surface with a gentle scrubbing action.
Painting Edges - Cutting in
Rollers and larger paint pads are very good for covering whole walls rapidly, but they can not reach the whole way into your edges, you will have to finish off these areas with a brush or small paint pad - a process often referred to as ‘cutting in’. #This can be# done before or after #the main# painting, but you will probably get the most uniform finish when you #do it# before #the main# section is painted.
1 Paint four or five overlapping strokes at right angles to the edge to fill the gap between #the edge# #and the# fresh paint. 2 Painting parallel towards the edge, #go over# the very first brush strokes in a long sweeping motion. Repeat until the entire edge is painted.
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