I wanna paint runner

tapilicious

I've seen an ad with a non-drip paint roller and brush. Is it worth the money?

mandybear

I got one of these for Christmas as we have just moved into a new house that needed a lot of decorating. I have to say that we tried it out once and then ended up using normal rollers for the rest of it! It just didn't seem to cover as well and to clean it out was a complete nightmare! The advert said that you just run water through it for a few minutes and it would be clean - if by a few minutes they meant a few hours and a lot of scrubbing then they are right! We were going to send ours back but as usual, we forgot.

tapilicious

Cheers for that.You've just helped me save £35...........I'm of to B&Q to get the traditional stuff.

Little_John

I thought about buying one of those a bit back but after a little thinking the cost is high it is cheaper to buy a normall one and keep getting up and down the ladder, a normal medium pile roller is heavey enough when charged with paint never mind a roller with 750ml or paint in the thing

LouLou

I've seen the adverts for these too, but £29.99 + £6 postage puts me off! Someone on ebay is selling a similar item to Paint Runner for £12.99.

The main appeal is not getting splashes and drips of paint everywhere. It's not much use if it doesn't give good coverage though!

ianian99

you might not have to up and down a ladder but you need to keep filling every 5 minutes. If you are gonna spend that kind of money buy a decent roller with extention pole or just use a brush handle if the handle is hollow as they tend to be same size.
If you use decent paint it wont be runny therefor it wont drip as long as you make sure the paint is on the roller evenly and not too much. The main reason for splashes is people doing it too fast so go slow and you wont be covered from head to toe in splashes.

Dukie_Boy

Hi
In ALDI today was a power roller pumps the paint to the roller
you just stick a pipe inthe paint can and start painting it internally feeds the roller, extension handle, vairiable flow rate controller
for Emulsion & water based paints
Cheers Dukie Boy