Can you re-use your paint roller?

i will be priming my walls then painting, so i was wondering, when painting the same color/primer, can i just leave the roller in the paint thinner for the next day? or are the rollers a 1 time use only thingCan you re-use your paint roller?
Some rollers are one use only. If your roller has a paper/cardboard tube, you can't clean it without the pad and roller tube becoming separated. If your roller has a plastic tube/roller then you can clean it and use over.





If your paint in a latex base, there is no need for paint thinner, just use water to thoroughly rinse your paint roller.Can you re-use your paint roller?
Check out the roller covers you're buying. If their inner tube is made of cardboard/paper, they probably won't stand up to more than one good use and will start to disintegrate when you clean them. The plastic tube ones will last for a while, provided you can clean them well. But, if even a little paint dries on them, they're officially useless.





Cleaning a roller is a pain. Don't bother if you're painting with oil based paint. If you're doing oil based and the job will run over to the next day, put the roller in a plastic bag and seal well. And put it in the fridge to hopefully slow down any drying action.





If you're doing latex paint, you can also put them away in a sealed plastic bag, but you can also wash them, too, but it takes a while, especially if the roller has a long nap to it that holds a lot of paint.





It's really important to get ALL of the water out of the roller or you'll get all kinds of drips messing up your paint job. The one thing I find essential, and it's a little expensive at $15 or so, but you can use it forever, is the good old spin-style brush and roller cleaner: http://www.amazon.com/Shur-Line-Professi鈥?/a>





That thing will spin your rollers dry quickly. They will also do the same thing for your paint brushes. It's an ingenious invention that separates the real professional painters from the weekend warriors. Just spin the roller, or brush, in a five gallon bucket (to contain all the ';overspray'; from the spinning). Once you use one, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it!!





Another poster was correct - it's not about the cold so much as it is about stopping the air and evaporation. But I think that putting your rollers in plastic bags in the fridge is a good idea, at lower temperatures, things tend to dry more slowly.





Do NOT put them in the freezer - freezing temperatures will cause paints to break down and behave terribly. From personal experience I tell you do NOT put them in the freezer!! Bad idea!!
If you use a latex paint, all you have to do is wash it out. If you use an oil based paint, clean it with paint thinner. If you were using the same paint I would agree with putting it in a plastic bag %26amp; freezing it. There are always some differences in paint %26amp; primer, that is why we use both, so the freezer method probably isn't a good idea.
Keep in mind by doing this, you will be mixing some primer into your top-coat. If you are using anything other than flat, you will get flat spots in your finish coat.





But, yes. Wrap TIGHTLY in plastic wrap. Air is your enemy, not temperature.
put it in a plastic bag and put it in the fridge. It will be good to go the next day! You don't want it to soak up paint thinner all night! That would make a mess of your walls!!
If you're doing walls then it's probably a water based paint.


In which case just rinse under the tap and keep in a plastic bag.


No paint thinners needed.
either wrapped tightly in plastic wrap or foil it will stay pliable for at least 2 days