By: Stephen Drommonsy
Submitted: 2010-10-23 15:33:13 | Word Count: 640
Applying Emulsion Using a Roller
Applying emulsion with a roller is the quickest method of covering a sizable surface area, although you may need more coats than when painting with a brush since the paint goes on quite thinly using a roller. Roller sleeves are available in a variety of sizes and textures. Choose #a short#-pile sleeve for a smooth wall surface, and then a shaggy sheepskinstyle sleeve for a 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, is also applied using a roller. While you apply the roller, the paint liquefies and allows the roller to pick up the right 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 splash all over the place.
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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 produce 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 in 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 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 frequently. Use a paint pad tray which includes 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 allocate 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 is 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 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 excellent for covering whole walls rapidly, but they can't reach all the way to the edges, you will have to complete these areas using 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 towards the edge to fill the gap between #the edge# #and the# new paint. 2 Painting parallel towards the edge, #go over# the initial 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 do these tasks that I’ve written about #in this# article. I’ve carried out these tips to many painting projects through the years but at the beginning #when I# first started out in the painting trade #there was# a good deal to learn. For my training I went to a company called - painter london - They taught me everything that I know these days.
