How do you easily clean a roller after painting?

I have just finished painting and I plan on painting the same thing tomorrow, how do i clean the roller quickly and easily??How do you easily clean a roller after painting?
i just put the whole roller and handle in a plastic shopping bag and toss it in the freezer over night. make sure the bag doesn't have any holes in it, twist it around the metal bar on the roller handle, then pull the handles of the bag between the roller cover and the roller handle. also, i try to leave the roller cover kind of ';wet'; with paint, so the cover if about as full as it would be after you finish rolling it out in the paint tray, before i place it in the bag. in the morning, or whenever i am about ready to get back to the project, i just pull it out of the freezer, and place it in the sink for about an hour or so, while i start to set up the room to work in. the only thing i do is to roll it in fresh paint in the tray and roll it out a few times before i start using it again. this even works for up to a few weeks time, if you have to empty out a room and then move everything back in, before you start the next room.


also, check out roller spinners at the paint or hardware store, that is what the pro's use. they go for about $20.00, and might be worth it, if you buy good roller covers and want to save them for reuse again. they allow you to wash out the cover, then rinse it out several times to get all of the paint out. just be sure to do the spinning inside an empty 5 gallon pail so you don't spin the water all over the place,LOL! good luck, have fun, yeah, right. How do you easily clean a roller after painting?
Take a plastic grocery bag and stick the roller (leave on the roller carriage) into the bag then wrap the ends of the bag around the roller carriage handle to seal out the air.


Do not use aluminum foil. Aluminum sometimes reacts to the paint and leeches into the roller cover which will create little air bubbles that show up after you use the roller next time.


All you are doing is keeping the air from getting to the paint.


If you try to clean a roller cover you will think you have it all out, but the cover will never regain it's true shape or absorbtion qualities again.


Either throw it out or put it in a plastic bag like I mentioned.


Just unwrap roller when you are ready the next day and it will be fine.


This way if you are doing primer/paint of different colors, you can simply switch back and forth quickly. If you only have one roller carriage just use plastic sack to cover the roller as you pull it off the carriage - your hands never touch the roller cover. Rinse paint off carriage and put on the differenct color roller cover.


To make sure your roller carriage works properly - peal off any dried paint at the ends and run under hot water. This keeps dried paint out of the rod ends of the carriage so it will roll freely.
If you're going to paint again soon, don't wash the roller Wrap it tightly in plastic or tinfoil or both, it will be fine. I've had them last several weeks if they were wrapped tightly enough. I don't wash rollers any more, even when I'm finished the job. It takes an enormous amount of water, you often have to rinse them again a couple of times after the first clean, and even then they aren't so hot for the next use. Consider them disposable.
When I'm going to paint the next day, I just wrap my roller (wrap it REALLY well) in aluminum foil and stick it in the refrigerator. Works!


I promise!


Then when I'm done I just toss the roller and clean the holder with hot soapy water. ~That's after painting with latex paint. . . it's all I ever use.


Hope this helps you!
Some great answers for water based paint. If however it happens to be solvent based/ oil based then place the roller in a large bucket/pail of COLD water.


Next day shake off water in garden/backyard and continue painting.
If it isn't oil based paint, soap and water will do just fine. Put some soap on the roller and go up and down with your hand until it runs clear.
if water paint soak for an hour and blast with hose 5-10 minutes


if oil based soak in turps and shake wrap in a turps soaked rag