How do you keep a paint roller fresh between painting?

I am in the process of painting my house and do not do it all at once. So instead of using a new roller each time I do a new wall or coat with the same color how can I keep the same one usable?How do you keep a paint roller fresh between painting?
My husband who owns a construction/remodeling company has his men wrap the roller tightly in plastic wrap. It keeps the paint and the roller moist and ready to use. He's done this in our home too and even waited more then a week to paint again and the roller and paint that was wrapped tightly worked just fine.How do you keep a paint roller fresh between painting?
huh? bags? freezers? no need for any of that if you CLEAN the sleeve Properly. For latex paints, which you'll undoubtably be using for walls, use water. Take the sleeve off and hold it and turn your hose loose on it. don't just spray it while it's on the roller and think that'll work. You have to get the nozzle right on the naps to get the deep down paint out. It takes awhile to get most of the paint out. Once you've gotten most of it off, keep it under the stream and continually squeeze and release. until barely any paint can be seen in the water. Then take a bucket and fill it with some water. enough to cover the entire sleeve. so, like half of a 5 gallon. take the ';clean'; sleeve and attach it back on the roller. submerge it in the water, and vigorously pump it up and down in the water for a few seconds, then dump and repeat a time or two more. once they're not tinting the bucketwater very much, they're clean enough. And this takes about 10 minutes to do, and I do it almost everyday. then just keep them wherever.





For oil based you would use paint thinner, but I've never used a roller for oil and i've been doing this for a grip. Either way if your sleeves or brushes are messed up with dried paint and thinner isn't doing the trick, pick up some laquer thinner. soak the sleeve or brush for about a minute or two and that stuff will have them in brand new condition. Lacquer thinner will get anything off.
A regular size roller fits perfectly inside an empty Pringles can. Snap on the top and it will stay fresh for days.
they are correct about clean film or airtight bag,this only works for emulsion paints.x
the way i find it easiest to keep the roller from drying out is wrap it in a plastic bag this will stop the air from drying the paint it will hold it for up to two days or more if you use a rubber band around the handle to close it up air tight hope this helps.
Use a gallon sized plastic bag.. that seals tight or plastic wrap to keep the paint moist until the next use.
Everyone is correct with the plastic wrap. do that and put it in the freezers. lasts a long time.
I wrap it in a plastic sheet, the kind I use for food containers in the fridge. This way I don't need to wash it too often. It will keep it moist overnight.
When your tired and sick of painting, wrap the roller in an old carrier bag, and try to make it air tight, this will keep it fresh and ready to pick up and start again the next day.


You don't have to keep washing it out. Same goes for paintbrushes. :)
wrap the sleeve in saran wrap and store it in the fridge....it will last for weeks