Applying Emulsion With a Roller
Applying gloss with a roller is the quickest way of canopy a huge surface area, although you may need higher coats than when painting using a brush now the paint goes on quite thinly using a roller. Roller sleeves can be found in frequent different sizes and textures. Choose #a short# - pile sleeve for the smooth wall surface, and a shaggy sheepskinstyle sleeve for the increased textured surface. The parts the roller cannot reach will have to get finished with a brush. Solid non - seep dye, which is supplied in a tray, can and be meet using a roller. Considering you apply the roller, the paint liquefies and allows the roller to capture up the correct quota of paint.
1 Drizzle the emulsion paint into the paint tray reservoir - it needs to be about a 3rd full. Dip the roller sleeve into the paint and roll it confidently up and down the trays ribbed slant to spread the paint evenly. Dont overload the sleeve or paint will splash far and wide.
2 Move the roller over the wall surface, using random strokes applied with a lightweight, even pressure. Try not to paint too fast or you will probably make a fine mist of paint spray. On every occasion 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 with the wet edges.
Using Paint Pads:
Paint pads come in different sizes. These are flat and rectangular with closely packed short fibres bonded with a foam backing strip, which makes the pad bendy. Pads are good for painting big areas with liquid paint - the bigger the pad, the faster you cover the surface. They create less spray and mess than rollers, but they do need reloading with paint more often. Use a paint pad tray that has 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 its loaded unequally, and will drip if there ' s a lot of 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 on the wall, move it up and down the surface with a gentle scrubbing action.
Painting Edges - Cutting in
Rollers and larger paint pads are excellent for covering whole walls rapidly, but they can ' t reach the whole way into the edges, you will have to finish off these areas with 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 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# fresh paint. 2 Painting parallel towards the edge, #go over# the very first brush strokes in a long sweeping motion. Repeat until the whole edge is painted.
