What type of Paint Roller should I use?

The various kinds of paint rollers. Where, how and when to handle them. How to pick the best paint roller for your next Painting Project.

Find out about the various types of paint rollers and what variety of paint they should be handled with, e.g. gloss and emulsion and more. What kind of paint roller you should apply for a given surface such as an artex dome or textured surface or a flat surface such as a plastered wall. Additionally, find out about the many parts that make up paint rollers and what they are named.

Applying a paint roller can make life very simple indeed, but sometimes there is a lot of uncertainty over the best roller to utilize in any condition.

When this happens, it is as well to acknowledge which roller to choose and how you can improve that choice. Rollers can be employed to paint with gloss as well as an emulsion, and shorter rollers are specially created to work with radiators.

For bigger, flattened surfaces rollers can make a tremendous time difference, but it is essential to use a brush, or paint pad to go round all the corners and edges where the roller can't get without making a disaster of the surface next to the one you are working on. Using a paintbrush in this approach, i.e. for detail, is named cutting in and this is dealt with in our project about picking a paint brush.

Rollers come in alternating widths, from approximately 90 mm to 450mm and all have their applications. There is no right or wrong width for any assigned job, but the obvious thing to learn is the larger the facade, the wider the roller.

Paint rollers come in two pieces. The exterior skin which administers the paint named a sleeve, and the inside frame. The skin is pushed onto the frame providing a change of roller sleeves for different purposes.

Paint rollers have two main covers which are dipped in the paint – wool or natural fibres and man-made fibre. Again, usually, the rougher the surface of the wall the bigger the hair on the sleeves

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A lengthy sleeved mohair roller would be applied to cover a textured wall or an artexed roof whereas a soft foam roller would be applied to paint emulsion on a nice smooth, plastered wall. The extent of the hair on a roller is named the nap or pile of the roller.

More affordable paint roller sleeves hold cardboard tubes onto which the skin is stuck. This cardboard can get wet and break down conceding bristles and foam to work free. Plastic cores or inserts are favoured.

Artificial fibre roller sleeves are typical for oil based paints such as gloss and for painting flat surfaces like painting a flush door. 

Lambswool applied on a roller sleeve is perfect for emulsions. They contain more paint than artificial sleeves and do not splash as much.

The best selection is a roller sleeve from Mohair. This is perfect for most surfaces, when applied with different length naps, and can even be utilized with varnish. Mohair is most frequently used with gloss paints and is perfect for oil-based radiator paints.

There are special roller sleeves ready for applying thicker paints or mixes, in a textured style to walls and ceilings.

Roller sleeves with designs cut out of them can give a very nice effect to a wall. Some of these roller sleeves are called stencilled rollers, and they are frequently made from rubber or cut foam.

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