By: Stephen Drummonsy
Submitted: 2010-10-23 08:40:55 | Word Count: 643
Applying Emulsion With a Roller
Applying emulsion using a roller will be quickest way of covering a big surface area, although you may need more coats than when painting using a brush because the paint goes on quite thinly with a roller. Roller sleeves can be found in many different sizes and textures. Choose #a short#-pile sleeve for the smooth wall surface, and then a shaggy sheepskinstyle sleeve for the more textured surface. The areas the roller cannot reach will have to get finished with a brush. Solid non-drip emulsion, which is supplied in a tray, can also be applied with 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 third 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. Do not overload the sleeve or paint will splatter far and wide.
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2 Move the roller over the wall surface, using random strokes applied with a light-weight, even pressure. Try not to work too fast or you will make a fine mist of paint spray. On every occasion the roller is dipped in 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 different sizes. These are flat and rectangular with closely packed short fibres bonded to a foam backing strip, which makes the pad bendable. Pads are good for painting big areas with liquid paint - the larger 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 may 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 will drip if there's a lot of 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 gentle scrubbing action.
Painting Edges - Cutting in
Rollers and bigger paint pads are very good for covering whole walls rapidly, but they can't reach the whole way into your edges, you will need to finish off these areas using 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 if 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# fresh paint. 2 Painting parallel to the edge, #go over# the first brush strokes in an extended sweeping motion. Repeat until the entire edge is painted.
Author Resource:-
Believe me #when I# say that I understand 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 through the years but from 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.
