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These are my basic brush & Roller cleaning tools Not pictured is my water spray gun
I had a crew of 10 guys working for me during a SUPER-8 Remodel, At least 5 of them were seasoned painters, On about the 6th or 7th day I noticed that they would wash all the paint out of their brushes and rollers each afternoon. NOTE: They all had a HUSKY 7 in 1 tool in their pockets with the same curved feature on it.
When I pointed at the large curved part of my Paint Brush comb and asked if anyone knew what this was for. (Insert Cricket sound effect here). NOTHING!!!!
I told all 6 of the guys painting that day to bring me their rollers and proceeded to demonstrate how much paint is in a roller no matter how dry you roll it onto the wall. With the 6 rollers I almost filled a 1 gallon bucket with what this tool squeezed out of the rollers. One of them actually had a response... "This guy has enough money, it doesn't matter if we waste paint!" I made the same face you just did!
Figure on a 2 month+ job, 5 days a week these rollers not being properly drained each day, we would have been way short on paint by the end of the job. Luckily I caught it early and only lost about 5 gallons.
Back to the subject... Do you use chemicals, soap or just plain old water? Besides the above tools of course.
My preference is water. the chems seem to stay in the brush.
MZ-HANDYMAN

I had a crew of 10 guys working for me during a SUPER-8 Remodel, At least 5 of them were seasoned painters, On about the 6th or 7th day I noticed that they would wash all the paint out of their brushes and rollers each afternoon. NOTE: They all had a HUSKY 7 in 1 tool in their pockets with the same curved feature on it.

When I pointed at the large curved part of my Paint Brush comb and asked if anyone knew what this was for. (Insert Cricket sound effect here). NOTHING!!!!
I told all 6 of the guys painting that day to bring me their rollers and proceeded to demonstrate how much paint is in a roller no matter how dry you roll it onto the wall. With the 6 rollers I almost filled a 1 gallon bucket with what this tool squeezed out of the rollers. One of them actually had a response... "This guy has enough money, it doesn't matter if we waste paint!" I made the same face you just did!
Figure on a 2 month+ job, 5 days a week these rollers not being properly drained each day, we would have been way short on paint by the end of the job. Luckily I caught it early and only lost about 5 gallons.
Back to the subject... Do you use chemicals, soap or just plain old water? Besides the above tools of course.
My preference is water. the chems seem to stay in the brush.
MZ-HANDYMAN