How to choose a brush that will last for a long time and paint the surfaces evenly

Hello, friends.

To understand what kind of building brush we need, let's remember where we use it. With a brush, we usually paint various abutments, hard-to-reach and embossed areas. Everything else can be rolled up.

Based on this, I have two selection criteria:

1. Brush bristles should ALWAYS remain soft and supple. If it "dubs", the paint lays down unevenly, and the embossed areas remain unpainted.
2. The paint should not destroy the pile. Still faced with this: they applied a perfect layer of paint, but everything was spoiled by the falling out enemy villi?

Which brush to choose

When choosing a brush, we look at the recommendations in the marking. But sometimes manufacturers deceive us. Below I will tell you how to expose them.

Water-based paint brushes

We buy a brush with artificial bristles. DOT!

Natural bristles saturate water, becoming rough and tough. It will not be possible to apply an even layer or paint over embossed surfaces. The paint will fall "now thick, now empty."

Oil based paint brushes

For enamels, varnishes and other paints and varnishes based on nitro solvents, we buy a brush with natural bristles.

Natural bristles always remain soft and evenly distribute oil paint over the surface. It's a pleasure to paint.

Artificial bristle brushes for oil paints cannot be used! Not that it’s impossible. Of course it is possible. But you need to understand that the paint solvent destroys the bristles and they begin to fall out.

Where manufacturers cheat us

More than once I have met that manufacturers write one thing and do another. Let's show you how to tell the difference between natural and synthetic stubble. This will help not only bring manufacturers to clean water, but also understand what kind of brush is in front of you if there is no marking on it anymore.

The sequence of actions is simple:

1. We pull out several villi from the brush.
2. We bring a burning match or a lighter to them.

Artificial villi burns completely to form a melted black pellet.

Natural bristles burns only in an open fire area. As soon as we remove the flame, the burning of the pile stops.

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