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Prepare Test Brushes with Paint

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Best Paint Brush Cleaner. Remove Dried Paint

What happens here

To ensure a fair comparison for the cleaning agents, five identical new brushes and one small roller are thoroughly coated with white latex paint. These freshly painted items are then set aside in a warm, dry environment. They are allowed to dry for several days (the video mentions 2-5 days) until the paint is completely hardened and stiff, simulating the condition of neglected or abused paint tools.

Goal: Create uniformly painted and hardened brushes for a fair cleaning test.

Tools and materials

  • New Paint Brushes — The primary test subjects for the cleaning agents
  • Paint Can Opener — Opening the paint can
  • Paint Can — Holding the paint
  • Small Paint Roller — An additional test subject for the cleaning agents
  • Stir Stick — Mixing the paint
  • White Latex Paint — To uniformly coat the test brushes and roller

What they say

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cleaners. How are we going to go about doing that, John? Well, we have five of the exact same brushes. They are used. They're uh what we would probably qualify or categorize as duster brushes, but we're going to dip all of them in the same product. We're going to let those dry and then we're going to see how they do in each of these cleaners. And then we also have just for our own curiosity some of these brushes that are extremely dried out rollers and things like that. We're going to test those out in a couple of these products too. These would be the three items that my daughter used. And this would be the 4-in roller. This was a brand new white dove pretty roller. We're going to see if you can restore a roller back to life. This is um pretty much as hard as rock. So I don't think that's really going to work too well. But this was a brand new chalk brush that she kind of destroyed, too. So, we're going to put those to the test. But we're going to put the products in each one of these plastic containers, let it set overnight, 24 hours, and then we're going to come back and take a wire brush, clean them, and see how simply it works or how difficult it works or whether it works or not, and whether the brush will function properly when it's done. We did take a $45 Deck Boss brush. It was brand new. We were staining for a couple days with it. And what happened to that brush, John? You know, it got left out in the sun and then that semi-transparent stain just dried it hard as a rock. So, and it was um the brush was pretty much ruined. We did uh and I heard from some people that Simple Green worked. I soaked it in Simple Green for 24 hours and it was amazing. It cleaned up and the brush was almost like brand new again. I was shocked. And so that got us very curious. Will these other items work? So, we're going to put it to the test, let you know. So, stay tuned because we're gonna do something and then go to bed and get back up and do something and then see what happens. It's like a science experiment. We'll see you soon.

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