First of all the amount of water needed is a waste of the resource and likely will cost near as much in the end as buying new covers for the roller handle.
Besides that, any paint you rinse has to go somewhere,,,, agree??? I don't enjoy filling the soil or drains with paint.
If you have to keep the cover, clean it out with running water, perhaps the garden hose until the water runs as clear as possible,,, leave it on the handle, and maybe on the longer handle,,, spray, and let the roller spin as you rinse. There are roller cover spinners you can buy, but why bother unless you want to be in the business.
If you plan on reusing in a short time frame, keep the roller cover wet, and sealed in a plastic bag. If not then don't bother. Also don't bother saving if you are drastically changing colors that you will apply with that cover,,,IE: Going from a dark to a light.
Decent roller covers are not expensive, and I always replace them for the next job. The only time I save is when I know I'll be using the same or a similar color soon.
I also leave rollers loaded with a paint color and bag them, when I know I'll use the same color soon. Certainly by SOON I mean in the same day or within 2 days perhaps. As long as the air in the bag is minimal the loaded roller will remain intact.
Rev. StevenWhat is the best way to clean and especially RINSE water based paint from paint rollers?
there is a tool available that is like a large ring with handles just big enough to squeeze over the roller pushing the paint out while running water over it.
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What is the best way to clean and especially RINSE water based paint from paint rollers?
If they are going to be used the next day with the same color, I put them in a zip lock bag. They will store just fine.
I never spend time trying to clean a roller for future use. It just isn't worth the time, effort and mess.
If you feel you just have to wash them then when you think they are pretty clean add a little dish washing soap to the roller. It will help get rid of the last bit of paint.
Take a 5 gallon bucket hold the handle inside the 5 gallon bucket and take hose and spray as it spends water and paint out.
Than when its almost clean take off rollor clean inside of nap than rinse rollor clean and put nap on again and spend clean all the way.
The bucket is to keep the water off you as it spends
Use a nozzle so you want waste water plus the nap
will spend faster are you can do it either way.
Latex does not hurt the soil or grass cleaning a nap
Oil you have 2 choice's intil job is complete you can put in a sandwich bag in and freeze or oil base you can soak in water.
The next day shake out because it will not penetrate the oil will do this alot if we or coming back the next day when using oil base paints only. Than when you through with this oil base nap.
Take nap off pour thinner in the bucket spend around by hand are throw away.
The best way to remove latex paint is using water. Keep twisting it until no more paint comes out after rinsing. You will have to keep rinsing and it will take about 10 mins to properly rinse a paint roller. Once well rinsed, hold it in one hand and slap it with the other to make it spin to rid of excess water and fluff roller back out.
under the hose
OMG, LOL
They make a roller tool that you hook up to your hose and stick the roller cover in it, turn the hose on rinses it off open up the tool take out roller cover. TA-DAH clen roller cover takes about 30 seconds to do.
Get these at Hirshfields (depending where you are at u may not have a Hirshfields, Sherwin Williams, Ace, Lowels, Home Depot. Or any paint stores by you, Benjamin Moore, Pitsburg Paints.
Buy it for about $10.00
I've had that fun experience before. LOL Place paint rollers in your sink or in the bathtub. Wash paint off with water to clean the rollers and then RINSE, RINSE, RINSE and RINSE some more.
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After painting six houses, I have come to the conclusion that the most cost-effective and least messy way to go about this is to buy the economy packages of rollers at Home Depot or Lowe's, and throw them away when finished with that color. It may not sound like the most environementally friendly thing, but I feel like getting all that paint in all that water is worse than one dried up paint roller in the trash. If you are working with the same color, save the roller for up to a few days in a plastic grocery bag in the refrigerator. You can get it out and use it whenever you want, just like you never took a break. It keeps the paint wet and clump-free. I cannot tell the difference between the way the paint looks on a regular wall with an economy roller and a more expensive roller.
The best system uses a very deep sink and very hot water (in lieu of that, a hose and a five gallon bucket). Put on some rubber gloves, because no part of this is good for your hands.
Rinse it and run your hand down it to work out the water over and over again until most of the paint is out
Then use soap to really clean it. Then rinse it a whole lot more
Then put the roller on a spinner (available at any paint store) fill the roller with water, and spin it out. Then fill the roller with water and spin it out again, and just keep doing that until the water spins out clear. Then spin it really well, and leave it setting on end to dry so it's all fluffed out
I usually throw them away when finished.It's not worth the time to clean them.Don't buy cheap roller covers!People will pay over $30 a gallon for paint and then worry about throwing away a $5 roller cover,absurd!When you need to keep everything fresh for the next coat then wrap or cover everything with aluminum foil.Clean brushes under water with a wire brush.
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