Last three pictures.

 

Wonderful System! And to think all I did was drop mine in a bucket of water.

 

"banana roller"??????????????

 

Yes, made from bananas, actually from the fibers of the banana skins.
You never heard of it?

 

Yup, having 4-6 different paints going filling 4-6 buckets with water to store brushes and sleeves over night (or for few days) and changing the water
when starts smelling funny after few days especially in hot weather (therefore \wasting water)
also having to spin the brushes and sleeves next morning - NO, not for me.
That's old school, good on messy new construction jobs.
I like the progress that guys who came up with those plastic covers made, just needed bit of "improvement" and it's clean efficient way.
And no gallons of water loaded with paint going down the drain.

 

Actually I only have one bucket and all brushes, rags and sleeves go in it. At the end of the day, rags, sleeves, brushes and clothing, all, go into my front loader washer. An hour later I wrap my brushes in craft paper sleeves and hang, stand my roller sleeves on top of the machine 'til morning and throw the clothing into the dryer with a ball of tin foil and 5 tennis balls. (tennis balls and a foil ball work better than fabric softener sheets!) NO SPINNING INVOLVED / NEW SCHOOL!

No matter what method you use, eventually the paint gets washed into the soil or down the drain, take your pick. I prefer down the drain because the city purifies the water sent to waste water BUT my buckets and initial rinse water does water my grass to no ill effect. All those plastic container thingys along side all that wasted paper towel looks like a lot of excess stuff & work to do prior to cleaning my stuff. There is already too much plastic waste in the world and eventually those things you use will be "recyclable" trash too. (Most recycling does not get recycled so best to reduce at the front end!) ....but heck, we oldsters don't know 'bout being green, we were just brought up with limited resources and had to learn to 'make do" with limited resources. We had no fancy "environmental products" or products that used the resources like banana peel or bamboo shipped from thousands of miles over seas , we had to use what was locally available. It limited our options so we just used less. (REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE IN THAT ORDER!)
I was careful with spelling and punctuation on this post, too!:vs_smirk:

 

I have a banana hammock when I go to the beach in the summer.

Anyway, one day a lady from the utility company asked us if, instead of cleaning our brushes at the end of the day, we store them overnight in the refrigerator 'cause that's what she did. Bless her heart. We were outside of a warehouse on a 95 degree day so I politely replied that if we had a refrigerator on the truck or on the job it'd be full of beer. But, yeah, people do that but if you do have a fridge handy, you probably have a sink handy so, clean up. I try to only dunk if there's no water and no choice but I have wrapped brushes to take and clean.

 

If you ever have mixed up too much of a two-part epoxy to use that day, covering it up and putting it in the fridge overnight will keep it good as new for the next day!

 

ORGANIC paint sleeves, WOW! That is really amazing and will really do a lot to make painting an environmentally friendly business to be in! (Except for all the petroleum required to produce and ship)

 

Did you know that most of the "poly" used in paint brushes comes from recycled water and "pop" bottles? That's one of the reasons i found out that paint brushes suddenly started going downhill in quality a few years ago. The cost of recycled poly is a fraction of what "virgin" poly is, and every brush manufacturer in the world has switched to the recycled stuff so they can keep their profits high. All but one anyway. But we are having a hell of a time sourcing "virgin" poly brush fibers. Only two companies in the world still make them and they want an arm and a leg for them!

 

Good idea to keep your kit from drying out in between big jobs!
I used to used them too... but then apathy set in.

Weenie Rollers and Banana Rollers... guess it makes sense. My customer's will love the new jargon.

 

this is what i use for the last two years

 

...14" 1 gal tray + 14" roller in bag + 4" roller in bag + brush in plastic case...all day long...all in one Kovrd bag...call it a gimmick all you want but it works like a charm for me...

 

why not just wrap them in Press n Seal and be done with it? I used the same brush and roller all summer doing this when i built and stained my deck. I'd wrap them at the end of the weekend and they'd be ready to go the next Saturday. I even just put Press n seal over the 5'er we were working out of and it worked fine.

 

I never heard of Press n Seal but I'm thinking that only works if there are no color/sheen changes, am I correct?

FYI: No tide pods, I use Arm & Hammer for cold water because I never use hot water except for linens.

 

I often stop and wash my balls while golfing but, I never thought of doing that for tennis!

 

Golf is a more sanitary sport than tennis.

 

Please have some class and don't talk about your dirty laundry in this thread.
Keep those gross images out of here, please.

cloth line full of unwashed female undies swinging in the wind while children walking back from school.
feel sorry for the neighbors...

 

Hopefully all “plastic” will eventually be engineered to decompose within a reasonable amount of time. One of the reasons I don’t care much for doing interior spray work is the amount of waste that is usually generated by doing it.

 

Regarding "environmentally friendly" painting materials; to my way of thinking, painting is never going to be such! We may get a little less toxic over time but plastic or chemical free, I seriously doubt it!

 

Baggies for paint-filled covers

I use baggies with a zipper lock to store roller covers. Quart size for mini rollers, gallon size for 9" rollers and 2 gallon size for 14" rollers. Label them with a marker, open them up, insert the roller and cover and slide the cover off and down into the bottom of the bag, lay on a flat surface and squeeze the air out, then zip it shut. In the case of 9" and 14" sleeves, I make sure the cover is off of the metal springs on my Shurlock frame before inserting the assembly into the bag so I can easily slide the cover off. 14" cover must be left on the side of the bag as I have not found a baggy wide enough to fit it into the bottom of the baggy.

When doing multiple colors and sheens, this system seems to work well for me. After I take a roller cover out to use, I generally use a new baggy if I am going to store the cover for later use as the paint sometimes starts drying inside the baggy. If it looks too dry, I will carefully tear the baggy open to avoid getting the cover into any of the dried paint or primer.

As far as brushes, I usually clean them out periodically as I am using them to avoid build-up of dried paint or primer.

futtyos

 

I use baggies with a zipper lock to store roller covers. Quart size for mini rollers, gallon size for 9" rollers and 2 gallon size for 14" rollers. Label them with a marker, open them up, insert the roller and cover and slide the cover off and down into the bottom of the bag, lay on a flat surface and squeeze the air out, then zip it shut. In the case of 9" and 14" sleeves, I make sure the cover is off of the metal springs on my Shurlock frame before inserting the assembly into the bag so I can easily slide the cover off. 14" cover must be left on the side of the bag as I have not found a baggy wide enough to fit it into the bottom of the baggy.

When doing multiple colors and sheens, this system seems to work well for me. After I take a roller cover out to use, I generally use a new baggy if I am going to store the cover for later use as the paint sometimes starts drying inside the baggy. If it looks too dry, I will carefully tear the baggy open to avoid getting the cover into any of the dried paint or primer.

As far as brushes, I usually clean them out periodically as I am using them to avoid build-up of dried paint or primer.

futtyos

Try wrapping your rollers in couple of sheets of wet blue shop towels and then put them in the baggies.
That way baggies don't get covered in paint on the inside (or at least very very little that can be easily wiped off), so you can reuse them.
I don't leave much paint on the rollers when wrapping them in wet shop towels, water from wet shop towels will keep the rollers moist
so no need for much paint on them to do that job.
After trying few times you will figure out how much paint to leave on the sleeves (or the brushes) and how wet the shop towels should be.
After I wet the shop towels I squeeze some of the water out of them.
Satisfaction of not throwing so much paint covered plastic into the landfills is sweet.