Applying Emulsion With a Roller
Applying emulsion with a roller will be quickest way of covering a sizable surface area, although you may need more coats than when painting using a brush because the paint goes on quite thinly using a roller. Roller sleeves are available in many different sizes and textures. Choose #a short#-pile sleeve for any smooth wall surface, and then a shaggy sheepskinstyle sleeve for a more textured surface. The areas the roller cannot reach will have to be finished using a brush. Solid non-drip emulsion, which is supplied in a tray, can also be applied using a roller. As you apply the roller, the paint liquefies and allows the roller to gather up the right amount of paint.
1 Pour the emulsion paint into the paint tray reservoir - it needs to be about a third full. Dip the roller sleeve into the paint and roll it firmly up and down the tray’s ribbed slant to spread the paint evenly. Do not overload the sleeve or paint will splash far and wide.
2 Move the roller over the wall surface, using random strokes applied with a light, even pressure. Try not to paint too fast or you’ll develop a fine mist of paint spray. On every occasion the roller is dipped in to the paint, move it #to an# adjacent unpainted area and work your way back towards the painted area in overlapping strokes to blend in the wet edges.
Using Paint Pads:
Paint pads come in different sizes. These are flat and rectangular with closely packed short fibres glued with a foam backing strip, which makes the pad bendable. Pads are good for painting large areas with liquid paint - the larger the pad, the faster you cover the surface. They create less spray and mess than rollers, but they will need reloading with paint more regularly. Use a paint pad tray with 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 dispense the paint evenly and remove any excess - a paint pad will #give a# patchy finish if it is loaded unequally, and can drip if there is too much paint on it.
2 Start painting close to a corner and work in strips about four times the width of your pad. Keeping the pad flat to the wall, move it up and down the surface with a delicate scrubbing action.
Painting Edges - Cutting in
Rollers and bigger paint pads are very good for covering whole walls quickly, but they cannot reach the whole way into your edges, you will have to finish off these areas with a brush or small paint pad - a process also known 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# area is painted.
1 Paint four or five overlapping strokes at right angles to the edge to fill the gap between #the edge# #and the# new 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.
Author Resource:
Believe me #when I# say that I know how hard it can be to perform these tasks that I have written about #in this# article. I have carried out these tips to many painting projects over the years but at the beginning #when I# first started off in the painting trade #there was# a lot to learn. For my training I went to a company called - painter london - They taught me everything that I do know these days.
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