When it comes to achieving a flawless paint job, the choice of roller sleeve can make a significant difference. Enter the Turbo Roller, a game-changer in painting technology designed to revolutionize your painting experience. Unlike standard rollers, Turbo Rollers offer the following benefits:
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26% More Fabric Surface Area: Provides more paint per dip, reducing the number of trips to the paint tray.
21% Reduced Rotational Velocity: Results in less spatter, less mess, and less waste.
Heavy-Duty Solvent-Resistant Core: Suitable for both acrylic and solvent-based paints.
Resealable Packaging: Eliminates water and paint wastage, ensuring your rollers stay clean and ready.
No Special Frame Required: Compatible with most standard cage and yoke roller frame designs.
With these features, Turbo Rollers make painting faster and easier with less spatter.
At iQuip, we’ve developed two exceptional options for professionals: the Turbo Roller USA Polyester Knit Fabric and the Turbo Roller USA Dacron Woven Fabric. Each offers unique advantages tailored to different needs. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you understand the key differences and benefits of each fabric so you can choose the best roller for your next project.
Turbo Roller USA Polyester Knit Fabric
Characteristics: The Turbo Roller USA Polyester Knit Fabric is a proprietary product crafted from inter-looped yarns, offering exceptional flexibility. This knitted fabric is renowned for its high paint capacity, allowing you to cover larger areas quickly and efficiently. Coupled with the Turbo Roller’s advanced design, this fabric holds a substantial amount of paint, making it ideal for fast applications.
Benefits:
High Capacity: The knit fabric holds and releases more paint, enabling you to cover expansive surfaces with fewer trips to the paint tray.
Fast Coverage: Thanks to its flexibility and paint-holding capacity, it delivers rapid application and efficiency.
Stipple Effect: While it covers quickly, it leaves a slight but even textured surface, making it suitable for most paints and coatings, including solvents.
Considerations: The Turbo Roller USA Polyester Knit Fabric may experience some fabric loss, which can slightly impact the finish. However, it remains a popular choice for those prioritizing speed and paint capacity.
Turbo Roller USA Dacron Woven Fabric
Characteristics: The Turbo Roller USA Dacron fabric features a proprietary woven design, interlaced from multiple yarns to ensure a smooth, lint-free finish. This fabric excels in providing a superior, low stipple finish with minimal fabric shedding, making it ideal for achieving a professional-grade result.
Benefits:
Smooth Finish: The woven construction delivers an exceptionally smooth, lint-free surface with minimal stipple.
Shed Resistance: Designed for durability, the Dacron fabric resists shedding, maintaining a clean application throughout the job.
High Capacity: Combining a smooth finish with high paint capacity, it enables professionals to achieve the recommended coating thickness with ease.
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Considerations: While the Dacron fabric provides a refined finish, its paint-holding capacity is slightly lower than the polyester knit, making it better suited for projects where finish quality is paramount.
Ease of Cleaning and Maintenance
Utilising the Turbo Roller's resealable bag helps streamline the cleaning process, reducing the frequency of washes and saving time, paint, and water. This practical feature ensures your rollers remain in top condition and ready for the next job.
Making the Right Choice
Choosing between the Turbo Roller USA Polyester Knit Fabric and the Turbo Roller USA Dacron Woven Fabric largely depends on your specific project needs. If you are after a good finish, high-film build, and efficient application, the polyester knit is an excellent choice. For a smooth, professional finish with minimal stipple, without sacrificing on film build, the Dacron woven fabric is the way to go.
Picking the perfect paint color is never as easy—even choosing a white (will it be snow, dove, or mascarpone?). Likewise, choosing the best paint roller requires some decision making. (Do you need a four-inch or nine-inch paint roller frame? Polyester or foam? 3/8-inch or 1/2-inch nap?) But with this guide to picking the best paint roller, you’ll spend less time agonizing in the aisle for painting supplies and more time choosing that paint color.
As a general rule of thumb, Dennis Fiorilli, director of product excellence at Sherwin-Williams, says to check your paint can for any instructions on recommended rollers. “In the past, one type of roller cover would work for most paints,” he says. “Today, however, with all the new technologies, it’s important to follow the recommendations for the specific paint you’re using to ensure the best results for the project.”
And once you know what roller you need, Octave Villar, painting and applications manager at Behr, advises against going with a low-quality version to save a few bucks. “You may think you are saving money on a bargain bin roller, but you may end up putting in extra time trying to achieve a reasonable paint finish if the roller application makes painting more difficult,” he says.
Keeping paint-specific recommendations and quality in mind, here are all the paint roller details you’ll need to get you, well, rolling….
Roller size depends on the scale of your paint project, but nine inches is standard for covering interior walls and ceilings. Jumbo rollers, such as 12 inches, are geared for professional painters working on heavy-duty commercial projects. “Unless you’re painting lots and lots of walls, you won’t really see the time-saving benefits of a larger roller, says Annie Sloan, a paint and color expert and the creator of Chalk Paint. “And I personally find them unwieldy.”
Small rollers can be helpful for tight corners, windows, and doors, while mini paint rollers are ideal for narrow surfaces, like trim and painting kitchen cabinets. Sloan says she also uses small rollers for stencil work. “You get a pattern that’s very flush to the wall and untextured, which works well for grand millennial, Regency, or contemporary aesthetics,” she says. “The smaller the roller you use for woodwork, the better the effect.”
Once you know the size of your paint roller frame, it’s time to zero in on the cover, which comes in various materials. Below are the three most common types of rollers and what they’re used for.
Polyester“Polyester is the general-purpose material for all paints, stains, and surfaces,” Villar says. “Most rollers used today are comprised of a poly (synthetic) material.” One exception: Sloan says she’d steer clear of using polyester roller sleeves with a gloss paint.
Lambswool“Lambswool is a traditional material that is good for solvent-based paints,” Sloan says. They are an animal product, so she notes that vegan DIY’ers wouldn’t use lambswool rollers. Villar adds that this material does take a bit longer to break in, but once it does, it can last for numerous jobs. “This type of roller is often prized by professionals for this reason,” he says.
FoamHere’s what Sloan would use for those gloss paints. “Foam rollers are also best for protective products, such as lacquers or stains,” she says. And Villar points out that foam rollers come in a variety of densities, which are chosen for specific projects. He says, “For example, high-density foam rollers may be used with thinner coatings or when trying to achieve a fine finish on smooth surfaces, while a slit-foam roller may be used to paint over acoustic or textured surfaces.”
Roller cover thickness, or nap, is most commonly determined by the texture of the surface you’re painting. “A more textured surface (like brick, masonry, or stucco) requires a higher nap, such as a 3/4-inch to 1 1/2-inch roller cover,” Fiorilli says. “For smooth walls, a 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch nap works best.”
“Mini covers work best,” Fiorilli says. Typically six inches or smaller, this size is ideal for the narrow width of baseboards. “These are also available in different fabrics that provide the best finish for trim, including foam and mohair.”
Once you’ve picked the perfect roller, get the most out of it by breaking it in—typically done by soaking it in water. “This will help remove any loose material, dirt, or debris on the roller while conditioning the fabric to absorb paint,” Villar says. After wetting your roller, he recommends wringing it out until it’s damp or using a roller spinner to remove excess water.
Though you’ve expertly picked your roller and come to rely on it, it’s important to note that your cover won’t last forever. So when do you replace it? “Once the fiber stains or stops accepting paint and sliding,” Sloan says. But before that happens, you can extend its lifespan by cleaning your cover with a mild detergent after each use.
“Shed-resistant or lint-free rollers can be less prone to leaving loose fibers on the painted surface, making them a good choice for a beginner,” Villar says. “But beware that these rollers may not pick up or release as much paint as other rollers labeled ‘high capacity,’ for example.” Villar also mentions that you’ll want to survey your entire home improvement project before heading to the store. He says to ask yourself, “Are you painting large surfaces, tiny areas, or a mix of shapes and sizes? Are there hard-to-reach areas or different surfaces and materials to be covered?” It’s likely you’ll need more than one type of roller, plus other accessories in addition to your paint roller kit, such as an extension pole or a paintbrush for touch-ups.
Speaking of additional tools, Sloan notes that your roller tray is just as important as the roller itself. She says, “Avoid plastic and invest in a good-size paint tray so you can play with the paint a little and coat the roller evenly before applying it to the wall.” Investing in the right tools will make your DIY project a breeze.
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