By: Mark Tinkler
Submitted: 2010-10-23 15:53:01 | Word Count: 635
Applying Emulsion Using a Roller
Applying emulsion using a roller will be quickest method of covering a big surface area, although you may need more coats than when painting with a brush because the paint goes on quite thinly with a roller. Roller sleeves are available in many sizes and textures. Choose #a short#-pile sleeve for any 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 comes 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 right amount of paint.
1 Pour the emulsion paint into the paint tray reservoir - it should be about a third full. Dip the roller sleeve into the paint and roll it firmly up and down the tray’s ribbed slant to spread the paint evenly. Do not 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 light-weight, even pressure. Try not to paint too fast or you will create 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 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 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 make less spray and mess than rollers, but they do need reloading with paint more frequently. Use a paint pad tray with 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 dispense 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 a lot of paint on it.
2 Start painting near a corner and work in strips about 4 times the width of the 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 excellent for covering whole walls swiftly, but they cannot reach the whole way into your edges, you will have 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 obtain 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 first brush strokes in a long sweeping motion. Repeat until the whole edge is painted.
Author Resource:-
Believe me when I say that I understand how hard it may be to do these tasks that I have written about #in this# article. I’ve carried out these tips to many painting projects over the years but from the beginning #when I# first started out in the painting trade #there was# a great deal to learn. For my training I went to a firm called - painter london - They taught me everything that I do know these days.
