Applying Emulsion With a Roller
Applying emulsion with a roller will be quickest way of covering a large surface area, although you may require more coats than when painting with 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 a smooth wall surface, and then a shaggy sheepskinstyle sleeve for any 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. While you apply the roller, the paint liquefies and allows the roller to pick up the correct amount of paint.
1 Pour the emulsion paint into the paint tray reservoir - it ought to be about a 3rd full. Dip the roller sleeve into the paint and roll it confidently up and down the tray’s ribbed slope to spread the paint evenly. Don’t overload the sleeve or paint will splatter everywhere.
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 will probably produce 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 the painted area in overlapping strokes to blend in the wet edges.
Using Paint Pads:
Paint pads come in several 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 bigger the pad, the faster you cover the surface. They make less spray and mess than rollers, but they do need loading with paint more often. Use a paint pad tray with a built-in ribbed roller on which excess paint will be removed.
1 Pour the paint into the paint pad tray, then draw the pad over the built-in roller to distribute the paint evenly and take away any excess - a paint pad will #give a# patchy finish if it’s loaded unequally, and will drip if there's a lot of paint on it.
2 Start painting near 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 mild scrubbing action.
Painting Edges - Cutting in
Rollers and larger paint pads are very good for covering whole walls rapidly, but they can not reach all the 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 if you #do it# before #the main# section is painted.
1 Paint four or five overlapping strokes at right angles to your edge to fill the gap between #the edge# #and the# new paint. 2 Painting parallel towards the edge, #go over# the first brush strokes in an extended sweeping motion. Repeat until the whole edge is painted.
Author Resource:
Believe me when I say that I understand how hard it can be to do these tasks that I’ve written about #in this# article. I have carried out these tips to many painting projects through the years but in the beginning #when I# first began in the painting trade #there was# a lot to learn. For my training I went to a firm called - painter london - They taught me everything that I do know these days.
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