By: Stephen Drommonsy
Submitted: 2010-10-23 07:42:21 | Word Count: 634
Applying Emulsion Using a Roller
Applying emulsion using a roller will be quickest way of covering a big surface area, although you may require more coats than when painting using a brush because the paint goes on quite thinly using a roller. Roller sleeves can be found in many sizes and textures. Choose #a short#-pile sleeve for the smooth wall surface, and a shaggy sheepskinstyle sleeve for any more textured surface. The areas the roller cannot reach will have to be finished with a brush. Solid non-drip emulsion, which is supplied in a tray, is also applied using a roller. As you apply the roller, the paint liquefies and allows the roller to gather up the correct amount of paint.
1 Pour the emulsion paint into the paint tray reservoir - it needs to be about a 3rd full. Dip the roller sleeve into the paint and roll it confidently up and down the tray’s ribbed incline to spread the paint evenly. Don’t overload the sleeve or paint will splatter everywhere.
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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 probably make a fine mist of paint spray. Each time the roller is dipped in to the 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 numerous sizes. They are flat and rectangular with closely packed short fibres glued to a foam backing strip, which makes the pad bendy. 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 do need loading with paint more often. 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 distribute the paint evenly and take away any excess - a paint pad will #give a# patchy finish if it is loaded unequally, and can drip if there's 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 mild scrubbing action.
Painting Edges - Cutting in
Rollers and larger paint pads are excellent for covering whole walls swiftly, but they cannot reach all the way to the edges, you will need to complete these areas with a brush or small paint pad - a process sometimes called ‘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 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 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’ve carried out these tips to many painting projects over the years but in the beginning #when I# first started out in the painting trade #there was# a lot to learn. For my training I went to an organization called - painter london - They taught me everything that I know these days.
