But soft brushes make for a super smooth surface because they don’t leave nearly as many brush strokes. They hold their shape and won’t wander like a soft brush. Hard brushes make it easy to paint a straight line. Less strokes makes for a better and smoother finish and allows you to cover the whole surface in one uniform pass. Also, if you are using a 1″ brush to paint a 2″ wide surface like a window sash, that means you have to make two strokes instead of just one with a 2″ brush. The larger the brush, the less often you have to reload (dip into paint) your brush. The best tip I can give you about selecting the right size is this: Find a brush that will cover in as few strokes as possible.
On the flip side I would never try to paint a wood window with a 4″ flat brush. Do you know how long it would take you to paint a fence with a 1″ brush? Forever! Go get a 3″ or 4″ flat brush for something like that. Size MattersĪ smaller brush means more control but slower production. In general today, an angled brush will be the most useful brush to have in your arsenal. Today, most of us use rollers to paint wide flat surfaces, so a big flat brush isn’t as useful as it used to be before the roller was invented. You’ll cover more ground with a flat brush in this type of application. Angled brushes really shine here and do a great job at painting a perfectly straight line with no wandering bristles.įlat brushes are designed for coverage on flat surfaces. Cutting in has to do with painting straight lines or in tight corners which seems to be a lost art since the invention of blue tape. Angled (sometimes called “Sash”) brushes are designed for cutting in. Even if you use a brush that is designed for multiple paints keep them two of them and dedicate one to water-based and one to oil-based coatings. I keep both types of brushes in my shop and go back and forth between different paints. There are brushes that can do both and they do a decent job of it, but if you plan to use a lot of one type of paint over the other, the best paint brush is the one designed for your type of paint. It’s a matter of how the bristles are able to hold onto and release the paint. Synthetic bristle brushes are for water-based paints. Natural bristle brushes were designed to work best with oil-based paints. What you plan to paint with will determine what kind of brush you need. Perfect use for a chip brush since it gets pretty gummed up by the end of the day I can just trash it and move on. I keep a chip brush sitting in a cup of oil-based primer to dab on the end cuts. Every time I make a cut, I reveal fresh wood that needs to be primed. For example, I have a bunch of siding that has been pre-primed and it is now being cut and installed onsite. These are called chip brushes usually and I use them as disposable brushes for tasks like primer touch up.
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Buy quality and learn how to clean and care for your brush. Don’t be fooled by this though because a high quality brush (if cared for properly) can last decades compared to just a few months or years for a cheaper brush. Just like a Maserati is a better car than a Ford, a quality paint brush will cost several times that of a low-quality one. Pay For QualityĮxpensive paint brushes are better paint brushes. So below I’ll give you Scott’s 5 Laws of Paint Brush Selection based on those important lessons my grandfather taught me all those years ago. One important thing he did teach me was how to select the right brush for the task at hand and how to make that brush last for decades.
He never did take to latex paints being an old timer, but that’s a story for another day. How can you decide? Glad you asked. My grandfather was a master painter and and drilled a lot of the old techniques into me as a kid. There are a lot of things to consider like size, angled or straight, material, and of course cost. PaintWell increased its Industrial Paints offering with the acquisition of Promain UK Limited, the preferred UK distributor for many of the world’s leading paint and surface coatings manufacturers.ĭue to its expert technical knowledge of the technologies and materials available across the industry, Promain has a reputation for outstanding service among its trade and retail customers.Ĭhoose from our most popular categories to shop Industrial Paints and Coatings at Promain today.Today let’s dig into the details on picking the right paint brush.Fire Retardant Paint & Intumescent Coating.
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