Anyone who wants to paint their walls themselves, faces a multitude of tools. There are also special devices for painting work.
With the right tools, renovating your own four walls is a simple matter. A prerequisite for a good result is the correct drainage of the wall- and ceiling renovation as well as the choice of the necessary tools. Before starting work should be checked, whether the walls are smooth or need to be filled. Is the substrate porous or sandy?, a primer is needed, who takes care of it, that paints adhere better to the surface. There are practical devices for every work step, which have proven themselves above all in commercial use and which also make private renovation work easier.
Ten tools in one go
Who doesn't have the opportunity, to become familiar with the tools, can manage with all-round equipment. painting container (hardware store, that. 15 Euro) consist of paint buckets,
Uncle roles (18 cm), a plaster cup with spatula, Cutter, div. brushes, Tarpaulin and masking tape.
lambskin- and nylon scooters for every need
Roller changing systems make it easier to quickly change and clean the rollers. The covers are made of new wool, polyamide, polyester or velor and are suitable for solid and viscous paints.
Special roller for difficult jobs: The angle roller is suitable for inside corners. The radiator roller has proven itself in niches that are difficult to access. The curved roller is used to paint pipes.
Scooter sets are available from hardware stores 3 to 10 Euro. They consist of a roller and a scraper grid or are also offered with a telescopic rod.
Special painting tools and painting aids
Where working with brushes can become tedious, help prank pad, equipped with fine mohair hair instead of the usual brush hair or lambskin. Paint pads are especially for dispersion wall paints, but also for paints, Suitable for glazes and wood preservatives. They guarantee clean edges and sharp color boundaries. Other rolling systems offer an ink tank, the constant up- and getting off the ladder is not necessary.
The Superstreicher has interchangeable mohair pads just like the Edger, there is also a paint tray.
The color tank of the roll can be easily filled with a funnel. The small reel has a protective plate with line puller.
Special brush for surfaces and corners
The simple brush is no longer the universal painter's brush.
Here, too, there are different qualities and areas of application. Smaller brushes are called surface brushes. Nylon bristle brushes are used for priming, they are solvent resistant. Some have a light cinchona bristle coat (natural bristles) and inside a dark synthetic fiber bristle mix.
These brushes pick up the paint well and are particularly suitable for thin wall paint coats.
paint container, wiper pans and grids
Not every bucket is suitable as a paint container: Especially rectangular buckets made of shatterproof plastic offer enough space, to dive into the role. container, used for colors, should stack well. Large paint trays can also be used for wall paints. They also have a sloping rolling surface, on which you can wipe the role. For this purpose, there are different scraping grids for the large buckets. They are made of plastic or galvanized wire.
Paint buckets should not have more than twelve liters. Otherwise they will be too heavy. Wiping grooves that are already embedded make it easier to wipe off the paint roller.
Wiping grids must fit exactly into the bucket. Are they too small?, flutter back and forth. An integrated grid in the lid of the paint bucket saves additional material.