How to achieve perfect paint quality from a cheap roller: a life hack from painters

There are three categories of paint rollers on the shelves of home improvement stores: cheap, mid-priced, and therefore expensive. Expensive, as usual, are used exclusively by professionals. Everything else is purchased for painting walls and ceilings in an ordinary "average" home. Inexpensive velor rollers have their drawbacks, which can be eliminated, and thus achieve the ideal quality of paint application. How to do it - read on. Do not forget to like and subscribe to the channel - we publish only useful and interesting content!

Two troubles of inexpensive velor rollers

Let's start with the question: how do cheap rollers differ from expensive ones? The answer, it would seem, is simple - quality. To make it clear to people who are not related to paint brushes, we will explain in more detail what basic parameters distinguish these two categories of this painting tool.

• The first trouble is that cheap rollers leave pile on the painted surface. Lint and other debris from the fur coat during the painting process is mixed with paint and sticks to walls / ceilings. This defect is very “painful to the eye”.
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• Second, these rollers leave streaks around the edges of the roller. Also, the lint on the edges of the roller can spray paint. This complicates the work and leads to overspending of paintwork materials.

To avoid these problems when painting, use the tips for preparing the rollers for work.

Trim the pile around the edges

To prevent the roller from leaving streaks around the edges of the roller, trim the lint from the edges. This operation is performed with ordinary scissors. It is only necessary to trim the fur coat so that the pile does not go beyond the edges of the cylinder. This will make your work easier and cleaner.

Remove debris and torn lint from the fur coat

The new roller must be cleaned of various debris and loose pile so that all this does not stick to the surface. To do this, first wash the roller in warm water and soap, rinse, dry and roll on tape. That is, stretch the tape of adhesive tape by weight and slide it along the sticky side with a roller until all the pile remains on the tape.

After these two simple operations, the roller will not leave any lint, streaks or paint drops. This means that painting quality will be ideal even with the most common roller.

Do you prepare this painting tool before use? Write in the comments!

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