How to Clean Paint Rollers

Video Transcript

"I'm Tim Gibson, and I want to talk to you about cleaning paint rollers. Now I have a basic roller that you'll find on any job that you would use in the house hold. And a good tool to have, of course, if you don't have anything, you can, and I'll go ahead and demonstrate, when you're cleaning, you want to hold it up like this, you want to run it under the water. You don't have to worry about paint getting down, most of the latex paints, they'll break down, as long as you run a lot of water, you don't have to worry about those, about the paint getting down in to your drains or causing any trouble there. Alright, now if you don't have any tools, the basic thing is you need to form a ring with your fingers, go ahead and put it down, and then you want to run your fingers down. You want to do that to get all the excess paint out of the roller. Now a good tool to make it a lot easier is that you can get one of these in any home improvement store, or hardware store, and it has this nice little ring on it. So you can take this ring, and you can see it splits a little bit right there, but now you can push it down over the roller, and so what that helps is it helps to squeege that paint out of the roller, and makes it a lot easier. If you're going to be reusing rollers it's very important that you get all that excess paint, and then you're, and then you need to run it, squeege it, probably do it at least three or four times in alternating of rinsing, squeege, rinse, and then squeege again. Then you also have, you know, a nice little scrapper on the end, so if you have some, some hard places, this particular roller does have a hard place. So you can actually use this scrapper, if you've had any dried paint, to actual just lightly scrape away so you can continue to use that roller. On the other end of this tool, we have these fingers, and these are great because one of the problem areas, and we're going to talk about a brush now, when we use a brush for paint, and particularly if we're doing a large painting job, you have problems with getting paint up in this area. So as you're washing this out, these fingers help you clear a lot of that paint out from with in the bristles, so that's a nice tool. Now the second thing is if you're doing a large job, you can also get one of these attachments. And you see it's made to go on your hose, and it has an inner ring in here that puts out a tremendous amount of water, and of course you want to do this part outside, but again, it, it fits down over the roller, and the water forces out so it does a much better job of getting at, that paint out of the roller. So if you clean like that, you can keep your rollers and be able to use them many times. I'm Tim Gibson with cleaning a paint roller."