Paint brushes

[tabbypurr]

helps it to splatter everywhere in tiny drops that you don't notice until it's set like rock.

NT

[tabbypurr]

good tips. I've been caught out once by overnight bagging a roller - turned out it was card cored not plastic - the result was a soggy heap next day.

NT

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Dust sheets. It really is not that difficult.

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[F]

I got some Harris Trade Fine Tip brushes from the local Screwfix. Excellent and a revelation. Thank you.

[F]

A pity you didn't tell me that a few decades ago!

I got a 4" 'No-nonsense' mini roller and tray along with a pack of spare foam sleeves from Screwfix. I'm not cleaning the used sleeve: it's gone in the bin. At 50p each I can't be bothered.

Much easier and much faster. Even if applying gloss paint with a foam roller is counter-intuitive.

Thanks for the life-changing suggestion: appreciated!

[F]

I used the 4" mini roller to roll the paint on and then a brush to brush it out and to get into the recesses in the panelled doors.

Much faster and a thinner, but more than adequate, coat of paint.

[F]

As I have discovered.

[tabbypurr]

Dust sheeting absolutely everything including the walls when you do a ceiling is a right pain. I prefer a brush.

NT

[alan_m]

In my (recent) experience painting high ceilings in a stairwell it didn't matter if I was using a brush for cutting in or a roller for the large area to how much paint ended up on the floor. I got a few drips from the edge of the roller and a few from a slightly overloaded brush when working at awkward angle at the top of a ladder.

[alan_m]

I also recommend getting a decent sturdy pole for the roller. In the past I have had "cheap and nasty" poles to hold the roller for painting walls/ceilings which have flexed and didn't hold the roller to well. For my last bout of ceiling painting I invested in a much better pole with a

6 sided metal inner where the extension firmly locked in set positions. It made a big difference to the ease of painting and because of the better control of the roller possibly less paint splatter/drips.

[Andrew]

I just use a roller, and only use a paint brush for fiddly bits.

OP hasn't told us if the paint is water-based or solvent based, which needs different types of brush.

Oil paint needs a good bristle brush, which are not good for water-based paints and vice-versa.

[F]

Solvent.