How to clean paint brushes and rollers. The quick and effective way!
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- Please welcome Chris Berry to HGMM! Visit and subscribe to his channel: / idahopainters . In this episode, Chris shows us how to clean paint rollers and brushes quickly and effectively.
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I love your tips. I’m the interior painter of the family so I always appreciate great tips. One thing I do before painting is very lightly dampen my brush with water before painting. Just a mist of water on each side, not too much or you get annoying drips when you’re painting. The bristles don’t get as much paint soaked into them and it makes cleanup real quick. Very little bristle brushing required
I have watched many of this guy's videos and he is a painting beast. He does not use those cheap roller covers like most nubs in here!!! I like his paint methods. He paints the trim and doors first which I never thought of. He can paint empty houses without a roller if he chooses. The best painter I have personally seen and I painted commercially in the past. I have a 4500 square foot house to paint and wish I had his help.
I've done the spinning thing before, but I don't know why I never thought to use a bucket to keep from slinging paint on myself. Great tips!
CMR Woodworks | Chris McDowell Me too, didn't think of the bucket, great tip!
***** How much caffeine did you have? LOL! Big contrast from when I seen you on the wranglerstar channel. Great tips by the way. What section of the hardware store do you find the nozzle in? The goofs at my store kept showing me regular garden hose nozzles.
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Same here. I always got a bit wet but I'll try the bucket trick next time.
Thanks Steve and Chris! What I do before taking it to the hose, I love your method, for a roller I use the round portion of a heavy duty paint scraper and kinda sueeze out whatever is left in the roller back into the bucket. Or waste bucket. By doing this a few times you'll be amazed how much paint is stored in the roller.
Great work. Keep the vids coming!
Lots of roller cleaning products and methods I've seen and tried. Yours is both THE best and cheapest and simpler. Well done. Thanks.
That roller cleaning method was a revelation! Thanks!!
Cool! Unloading the roller first using a blunt kitchen knife over the paint tin helps this go much faster. Strip it in a spiral motion, repeat a few of times. Saves an awful lot of paint too!
Wow, very efficient! This will help with all the recent interior painting I've been doing on my rental! Thanks!
Can't wait to give the water hose nozzle approach a try. Looks so much faster than cleaning a roller in the sink or tub.
I should also say that I have A LOT of painting to do this summer on a house we just bought in December. Thanks for the tips!
I like the bucket tip im going to use that now for my rollers. You should mention that if you us a 5in 1 to scrap the majority of the paint out of the roller it cleans even easier.
I live in Meridian Idaho! Sweet Idaho represent !
Welcome to the channel Chris.
I have used the idea of spraying water on my paint rollers and I usually get all wet but in the future I will use the bucket idea. Liked the idea of using the wire brush to clean paint brushes. Well done!
OMG so easy, I've been running my roller under water for like 40 min, and it's still not clean, ty for the tip x
Hi ya Chris, excellent tips on how to clean a roller and brush. Instead of patting the brush on the toe of you're shoe ,boot or whatever I like to put the handle of the brush in the palms of both hands holding the brush vertically and move both hands back and forth spinning it over a bucket or open container. That method gets all the cleaning fluid out and on to the edge of the container leaving your brush nice and clean. I also use this method for cleaning enamel brushes in turpentine also. quick and easy
***** Thanks for your reply Chris .Another method I like to use is in particular after painting with enamel or oil based paint is to everything that I mentioned before plus after spinning I wash the brush in soap and water by lathering up the brush bristles over a cake of soap, then with the bristles between thumb & forefinger pull down from feral to bottom a few rimes then wash out in cold water and spin out. leave the brush to dry, and when it is dry you have a nice soft brush ready to go again. This method is great if using brushes on & off.
I've done that wit the hose and roller for quite a while, just seems like such a good and easy way to clean them. As for brushes, i also spray the hose into the brush to give it a good clean.
This way a lot easier than how I've been doing it. Good info.
Great Tips Chris, been cleaning my rollers and brushes like this for a long time.
I once saw this gizmo on an infomercial that lets you connect a painting brush to a drill and then you simply spin it in a bucket to get it clean. It seemed to work perfectly on the infomercial.
Hey Chris, welcome aboard.
A couple of GREAT tips. I have used the hose B 4, but not the nozzle and bucket.
Good job and I look forward to more tips.
Great tips! Gonna have to put these into my memory bank. Thanks for sharing.
Great addition to this channel. This guy and his channel rock. If you have any interest in painting or staining techniques his channel is a must subscribe!
Im a commercial painter in WA. Neat little trick when in a ti, keep a stick attached to my ladder; put that over the sink to wire brush my paint brush. So as not to damage the sink.
If I use white emulsion paint for a few days on the run eg on ceilings and walls etc, as it's a water based paint I put my roller in a small plastic bag and tie or twist it up, it doesn't dry out and you can use it till you finish the job then clean with running water, give it a good shake dry and you are done, a clean roller for another paint job.Take Care,Barry from England
Whoaaaa! I wish I'd seen this before I attempted my first painting project a couple of weeks ago!! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the video! I truly appreciate all the tips! What is the best way to dispose of dirty paint water? Where I live we have many aquifers under the ground and I'm worried about rinsing things in the yard as it might eventually works its way down to our ground water.
the only thing I do different is I take a 5 and 1 with the roller cleaner side and squeeze the paint back in the paint bucket to save some of the paint in the roller,but besides that I do everything the same,you have great easy tips for the diy person!
Awesome video. Thanks. Very helpful.
Great video. How many times do you use your rollers?
Really enjoyed the video. Welcome to the team, you seem like a very good fit :-)
***** Yup, I just thought the same thing when browsing his channel. Tons of good stuff there. Absolutely love how you find friendly and competent people and bring them together to form this DIY kindof community. You're super awesome, Steve!
Raking the excess paint out of the roller cover with a 5 in 1 will speed up the cleaning process and conserve paint..you probably know that but maybe forgot to mention it in the video..otherwise I clean my tools essentially the same way..nice tips for people tho!
Good information Chris. Thanks for the video.
Great tips! Thanks:)
Dude is JACKED!
Great tips. Thanks. How about cleaning brushes used with oil based paints?
Good tip on the roller cleaning, might not work in the winter when the hose is off till spring.
Backyard Woodworking Why would the hose be off? Do you only pay your bill in the spring?
xnamkcor X because it freezes stuck if you live in a colder climat
xnamkcor X Like the man said we get down to 8 degrees in the winter and it can freeze a hose solid and break the pipes.
Backyard Woodworking We just keep the water running enough to keep it from freezing. How do you empty your pipes?
It's the outside pipes that freeze. Where you from Mars.
Hi there, as a painter of over 35 years, I know that latex paint does not hurt grass. I just spin the roller and spray the grass and it works fine. About brushes? I use to kick them dry but it really tears up your shoes. So my better solution is to just spin the brush by the handle between my hands. Try it! That is if you get tired of tearing up your shoes.
Great Video!!!
Welcome Chris! Enjoyed the video, and hey you must be good, your clothes were still white at the end of the video! LOL
Fantastic!
use roller spinner or a short roler pole works gr8 scrape paint out with ur paint thumb first
here are some ideas back for you.
Look at using FABRIC SOFTENER after you clean the brush, and actually, before you ever use it.
Make the bristles super smooth and they are much easier to clean up after each use.
Also, try Murphy's Oil Soap on encrusted, hardened brushes. Let them soak for a week or 2 or until you can use a wire brush on them effectively.
Do you use the wire brush on Purdy and other high-dollar brushes? Seems like it would tear them up and those brushes ain't cheap.
GREAT idea on the bucket and roller.
Five in 1 works great as well for the rollers
This tip really helped when i was cleaning the roller and it saved me a pain in the ass :) Thank you very much!
lol this is stuff i teach newbies the first week I been painting for over 30 years there are other ways but we old school guys clammed up when you tube came out ;-)
Like the brush technique! rollers are farely inexpensive at the big box store, use once and pitch them.
good to see this! for years, i've used brillo pads to do the same thing. never thought to use a wire bush, can't wait to use your method!
i usually toss the rollers after use because they are cheap and i figure i spend more money in water/time cleaning them than they are worth but i will try this method. seems a lot quicker.
Great idea!!
Guy gives really good tips on how to clean roller. Comment section full of people triggered he MIGHT of hurt HIS lawn. -__-
And by extension our lawns if we follow him. That's what I came to TH-cam to find out- what do you do with the paint water?
Quick question for any professional painters, do you use a wire brush like this or do you use a brush comb for cleaning? I am working on a design project in one of my college classes (for context).
I am in a condo so I can't see that all that spraying would work for me. But the wire brush is and a good idea. Thanks!
You can really scrape out most of the paint with a putty knife, then keep the bucket upright while it spins. As long as you keep the roller below the rim and vertical very little comes out of the bucket, and it's very watered down if it does.
if you need to go for a break or have finished painting for the day wrap the brush or role in clingfilm so the paint won't dry out and you can use it the next day and you won't have to clean the roller or brush...if that makes sense
So you pour the waste water (water with paint) into the yard? I have pets, I would not want them to come licking that up. Any other suggestions. Second question how do you store your brushes and rolers?
does this work with all kinds of paint, or just on waterbased?
The way I was taught you fill up 1 five gallon bucket with water plug up electric heating element and put it in the water let it heat up then empty the warm water into two other 5 gallon buckets now you have 3 rinses. When you have a lot of brushes or not.
Fine
If the roller is sticky with water proofing paint is there any solution?
when you are doing your wash out of paint brushes and rollers, what do you do to prevent the grass from dying?
how do you clean oil base products and finishes? the same way but with paint thinner?
It's kinda funny, when I was a kid I had always asked people why they don't clean a paint roller like he just did and I was always told "it's 'cause it would destroy the roller" and yet there he is doing it and it took less time and came out cleaner then before.
Awsome!
Thanks for the tips
gr8 tips ty!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mmmmm What to do if it’s winter outside and I’m painting inside garden hose wet up hardwood floor
does it matter if the paints are not water based?
does the trick works for painting tools with non-water based paint on those?
Thankyou very much!
It might be worth pointing out that you should check local laws before cleaning paint (even latex paint) where the waste water can flow back into the ecosystem. I live in a suburban area of Houston, and I almost received a citation for doing that. I was told to rinse paint brushes in the sink so that the water would instead go to the local treatment plant.
This may or may not apply to your specific location, but it's something to think about for an instructional video.
Wouldn't doing in the garden destroy the grass (because of the paint i mean)?
Can i use this method to clean epoxy resin before it hardens?
Would the paint water kill your grass?
Probably not if it's water based.
which end of the bucket?
Any tips for cleaning an 18 in roller like you recommend using?
There is a professional cleaning kit for brush and rollers it called The Dandy pro.... check it out
Are those pro. painters shoes? What shoes do you recommend .
thanks
Is it safe to poor the watered down paint residue on a lawn?
YES
kills the grass ,know from experince !!
Doesn't paint water kill grass?
I'm yet to find ANY utube clip on how to clean rollers with OIL based paint on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You'd probably need to use thinner or similar strong fluids to wash it out. Do NOT pour it out in the sink though! It should be left at a chemical disposal place. Same place you leave motor oil and such.
a $2,000.00 fine in Coastal California.....Try a Clean N' Roll for far better overall results
What about oil based paints?
Donald Schlicht i use gasoline, cleans it right off
gas eats away at the glue that holds the bristles in
Donald Schlicht same process but first you set the brush in paint thinner for a while then you rinse 3 Times with wire brush
now if i could only work out how the hose turns on
Now you have a clean brush you might worry the wire brush goes rusting, actually just use a plastic comb.
I think I've just got to use cheap brushes with Kilz so I can toss them afterwards. Too hard to clean the oil-based stuff..
Slow down turbo, i can't keep up. 😭
Why didn't you just spray the bush too?
my system is i cant be bother to paint , i save water , brush, rollers ,etc .
I'm sure the city and people in your town are very happy your pouring latex paint into the local environment. How many gallons of paint do you figure you've poured into your environment over the years? I hope your local EPA sues your ass, completely illegal.
using tape to get some fluff of a new roller.
I'm a big baller.... new brush and roller every time :P
I clean brushes, but never bother cleaning rollers. Roller covers are too cheap to worry about.
If I am not done with that color, I will wrap it in plastic and toss it in the fridge. The plastic and the cold temperatures keeps the paint from drying and you can keep on using it.
When I am done with a color, I just throw the roller covers away. That is too much work to save a couple of bucks.
Jonathan Mulzer So cheap you're willing to spend extra time, money, and space buying and potentially storing them to save a minute or two?
seigeengine When I buy the paint, I buy a few roller covers. Same as Johnathan, I refrigerate the cover until I am done with the color, then discard the cheap cover. I don't paint often so I see no reason to take up shelf space with a used cover. No time wasted, no space wasted, and I'm out less than $10. If you are worried about painting you fridge, double wrap the roller cover. or use three plastic grocery bags if you wish.
evilhorde1 Or, you could not waste the money buying the roller covers, not waste the time having to pick them up and purchase them, and, if you already have the paint on hand, not have to go to the store at all. Also, considering you already are storing the roller, there's not much difference in space here between zero and one.
All because you weren't too lazy to take 2 minutes out of your life* to demonstrate that you realize wasting things is bad, and that you're part of the problem.
By the way, I wish people would stop repeating how you store wet rollers to me every time they comments at me. It's getting really annoying. It's neither relevant to what I'm saying nor something I was ignorant of to begin with.
* = And, to narrow down on one issue, even if we say it would take you 5 minutes, and it would cost you $10, you're effectively saying you value your time at greater than $120/hour, which is an amount, given you're a fairly typical person, I doubt you make doing whatever it is you likely also spend thousands of hours a year on.
EDIT: And to clarify, I was combining several potential situations there. The money and time apply to everyone, the space was mainly aimed at people who paint regularly, and so might be inclined to purchase a large number of roller covers to keep on hand as needed.
I buy cheap rollers (3 for $7) so I am saying I value my time at closer to $30 an hour. Aside from me, who is repeating how they store wet rollers? or do you troll all of the 'how to clean and store paint roller cover' forums?
seigeengine WTF are you getting on about? When I buy paint, I buy roller covers. If I do have any left over, it is not like they are made from dairy. They are not perishable and 2-3 roller covers take up a very minimum amount of space.
You forgot to take the roller off the frame because paint collects inside the middle so no matter how much you spin it that paint will splatter out
I'm just saying you forgot a step that's all
Of all the colors available for clothing, why white? Why do painters always wear white? Seems like *the* most stain-able color available.
Adam R That's an interesting question.
Arbitrary guess at an advantage: It's easier to see paint on the white clothes, so you're less likely to have paint on you, and not realize it, and do something silly and get that paint on something you don't want it on.
I think it began way back when painters whitewashed buildings. And continues today because a majority of their work involes white or some very light colors.
cool, but 5 Liters spayed in the face ...
Stroking it down ward just like this..
If i use that much water in California I think the neighbors will call SWAT down on me.
Dumping paint/water mixture into the soil? Mkay.
thought so too.... :/
+bkboggy
I'm sure it is not an oil base paint but one that is harmless to plant life.
+Sandra Roe It may be "harmless" to plant life, but there are plenty of harmful chemicals in paint that will enter the soil, which, in turn, will jeopardize wildlife and water reservoirs. Even if by some astronomically remote chance that their paint is some "all organic purely harmless super magic paint that hasn't been invented yet," they're teaching others to do this and make no note of the possible harm.
Latex paint is fairly inert, so kids can eat it. Your yard acts as a wetland to hold the material until it breaks down. I've washed down on the same spot for years, grass grows fine and the bugs thrive. If you really want to freak out, walk outside and look at all the houses with 3 tab roofing, tar is being washed into the ground water every time it rains! Maybe go door to door and tell your neighbors about that.
Thank you for coming to my rescue here.
"My buck-kate!
Why do painters wear white? Makes no sense