The best brushes have a generous filling of long bristles and are an even, tapered shape. <\/p>\n
Cheaper brushes have short, thin bristles and big wooden filler strips to pack them out. <\/p>\n
The ideal sizes for wood are:
\n\u2022 25mm (1 in) or 50mm (2in) for panel doors, skirtings
\n\u2022 50mm (2in) or 75mm (3in) for flush doors, skirting, large areas
\n\u2022 25mm (1 in) cutting-in brush for window glazing bars
\n\u2022 12mm (Vfein), 25mm (1 in) or cheap paintbox brush for spot priming, applying knotting<\/p>\n
Alternative to brushes<\/em><\/p>\n Paint pads are more widely used on walls than on woodwork, but the crevice or sash paint pad will do the same job as a cuttingin brush. It should be cleaned with white spirit or hot water and washing-up liquid (paint solvents might dissolve the adhesive between the mohair pile and foam). <\/p>\n TIP: PREPARING A BRUSH <\/p>\n Before using a new (or stored) brush work the bristles against the palm of your hand to remove dust and loose hairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The best brushes have a generous filling of long bristles and are an even, tapered shape. Cheaper brushes have short, thin bristles and big wooden filler strips to pack them out. The ideal sizes for wood are: \u2022 25mm (1 in) or 50mm (2in) for panel doors, skirtings \u2022 50mm (2in) or 75mm (3in) for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}