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Do's Of Painting | De-lint Your ROLLERS

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This video provides professional tips for preventing lint from paint rollers transferring onto walls, which can mar a smooth paint finish. It details two tape-based methods and an alternative pre-wetting technique to effectively remove loose fibers from roller covers before painting, ensuring a blemish-free result on walls, especially those with a smooth or level five finish.

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[Music] all right I recently been asked on my social media platforms why am I getting Lance on my walls when I'm rolling my walls so I'm gonna give you some information why that's happening and how to resolve it so rollers themselves your nine inch rollers and your four inch rollers they're gonna be made of some type of material that even if they say lint-free I don't know if you can see that but right there I just picked off some of those lints on this roller when I load up my roller and initially start rolling those um Lids are going to transfer from my roller and right onto a wall you're not going to notice that on a wall like this but if you do it on a Smooth Wall level five finish walls you're going to see those lens all over the wall and when it dries you're gonna have to sand them off and repaint your wall so one of the things we do is professional painters is we always delint our rollers it's a simple little process all right now I'm going to show you you know how you can just quickly delint your roller so you just take your an inexpensive tape it can be is whatever Crop Production case you have you'll lay it around I'm just going to wrap my roller up and tape just like this then I'll just put it right back on my frame and then I'll just unwrap it once you unwrap it I'll show you right there hopefully you can see that there's a lot of lengths on that roll right there all those lints would eventually transfer right to your wall now you can use tape to Delight your roller you can just take it out like you're actually cleaning it in with water in a hose and spin it clean and that pre-wets it so it kind of like pre-conditions the roller to start rolling I do that method quite often if you've got a hose available that has a short spigot on it that'll shoot it fast to do that and there's one other method you could use with tape I'll show you how you can use this method to delay your roller also the second method right here de renting a roller does take more tank so you know if you don't want to waste tape that the tape is expensive give you on the other method you just just like this get a roll of tape stretched out now just roll my roller let on the tape just like that and that's going to delay the roller so there's a couple methods to de-lend it so you don't transfer the lens from your roller to your wall especially on a smooth finish wall so you don't have that disaster that you have to fix that fix or clean up later foreign

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