Spatulas and paint tools: types, how to choose, manufacturers

Without the spatula, brushes and painting accessories can not do any cosmetic or major repairs. hand tool selection is often neglected, although this type of equipment is responsible for the appearance of the surfaces. It depends on it, and the final quality of the finish.

Types of paint tool and spatulas

To Paint tools include spatulas, rollers, brushes, mounting guns and related accessories.

What are the spatulas

All spatulas can be divided by size into three groups:

• small spatulas with a blade up to 150 mm. Used more often as a toolbox. Helps to remove solution from the container, gently put it on a large spatula. They handle small surface defects and bumpers.
• average spatulas with the blade 150 to 450 mm. Convenient to use on door and window slopes, sealing drywall seams, leveling perforated corners. It is also used as an accessory with the trimming of wallpaper and applying liquid wallpaper.
• large spatulas a blade width exceeding 450 mm. The tool requires a stable skills. It is used for rapid and uniform coverage of large areas and as a mini-rule. Finishing is performed is large spatulas. With such a finisher tool can process direct walls to 300 sq. M. per shift.

Additional Illumination is on functionality:

conventional spatulas

Spatula with a flat blade is used for applying putty and plaster. B can be used for any finishing needs an auxiliary tool - from trimming corners before removal fugue. To the usual trowel apply and trowel - tool with a platform in the form of a fixed blade and a handle on top.

Notched trowel or rake

To work with the solutions, which should not be void. This tile adhesive, mastic and other materials that are difficult to apply a uniform mass without the formation of air gaps. Dents spatula expel voids formed, which affects the strength and quality of stacking.

notch size is adjusted for the particular kind of material with the surface roughness. For example, a mastic is applied on bulk semi notched trowel with teeth to 3 mm - it is sufficient to glue the surface with the small cavities.

rubber spatulas

Spatula for use with non-abrasive materials on smooth surfaces. Most often used for applying grout on the tile seams. Do not leave traces on a smooth surface and do not scratch it.

rubber color tone is adjusted for material with which to work with. For example, for light tiles more appropriate trowel white rubber.

plastic spatulas

This kind of spatula is more often with jagged edges, usually rounded. Used as a trowel for the ordinary and liquid wallpaper or smoothing other thin materials, which damaged a metal tool.

What are the rollers

Korotkovorsnye rollers

Such rollers are preferred for materials prone to splashing. This primer, paint and thin-layer impregnation. There is a separate type of korotkovorsnyh rollers - Velor, more seamless. It is used for the uniform application of the paint on smooth surfaces without streaks and transitions.

Rollers with long pile

Apply for mixtures with thick and hide small defects in the surface, for example, for painting walls and ceilings with insufficient alignment quality. Dlinnovorsnye rollers are optimal when working with all types of wallpaper paste. Allow to capture the amount of solution necessary for rapid impregnation segments.

Also long pile serves to apply a uniform and dense layer of solution on the walls and ceiling, although there are exceptions. This type of roller is not suitable for impregnating the glass fiber adhesive top layer - the web can move entirely due to the excessive weight of the solution.

rubber rollers

These rollers are used for pasting premises wallpaper. Analogue plastic spatula, trowel, often applied to him in a single package.

Standard video size 15-25 cm is used for smoothing fabrics wallpaper on the freshly applied adhesive layer. Gently expels bubbles and removes excess material from wrinkling.

foam rollers

The type is considered to be disposable. Used for solutions that problem rinse: epoxy primer and acrylic, oil paints, penetreks. Roller quickly fails, use it for more than one day is impractical. Foam intolerant to corrosive and may start to fall apart, leaving the slices on freshly painted surfaces.

Typically, these rolls come with a few extra coats that are easy to change, as soon as the previous becomes unusable.

Needle rollers

Rollers made of rigid plastic with distinctive protruding needles. Used for leveling liquid solutions. Such a roller is able to expel the excess of fresh mixture of air bubbles. This is analogous to the toothed comb, but is intended for the less dense material than the tile adhesive. In the treatment of self-leveling floor cushion is worn on a telescopic stick. Using it, a worker per shift handles 100 or more square. meters of floor.

plastic rollers

This roller type in most cases covered with a texture in the form of ribs or patterns. Used to set the relief structural plasters. Rollers increasingly seamless, so that no transitions between the layers.

What are the brushes for painting

flat brush

Labeling KP or EC type-hammers finishing. Used with any paints, adhesives, varnishes and enamels. Suitable for use in hard to reach places, corners of rooms, the processing of carcasses curly plasterboard. Brush universal. It can be applied as a wide band of paint and narrow the skip - turn the knob perpendicular enough.

roundbrush (Brush-handbrake)

Marking KR, sometimes with the addition of "C" or "O". There are thin and thick type. Thin used for spot staining the surfaces, is compatible with all types of enamels. Thick type is used for priming works and blur whitewash wallpaper joints.

radiator brush

Brush-like hammers finishing, but with the characteristic bend bases and a long handle. Used for painting radiators. As they apply wallpaper paste in hard to reach places. This brush does not replace fleyts under normal repair work. Bend inconvenient for continuous use.

Brushes

Marking KMA, wide thick brush, more reminiscent of a flat brush with long bristles. Used for painting with aqueous solutions, coating of whitewash, thick layers of glue or lacquer is suitable for the primer, including - applying Betokontakt. Due to the thickness and length of the pile carefully studies deepen and difficult places.

Filenochnye

Marking CK, brushes with a working portion to 22 mm. Used for finishing work, drawing fine lines, handling of narrow joints and ends.

Other painting tools

Lace dye

Marking thread, tool spacing straight lines on the surface. Most often used for pasting the walls with wallpaper. In this case, the line bounces on the vertical level. Applicable in the paint work, paint sets a smooth transition joints.

The principle is simple - in a container with a cord is dry dye. When shaking it settles on the roughness of the thread. To operate the cord gently pulled the metal tip to the desired length. The tip can attach to metal screws or give into the hands of an assistant.

The thread is pulled gently, it is important not to knock her paint. When the maximum cord tension gripped with two fingers and abruptly pulled from the surface. He shoots paint on the wall trim level line.

Painting trays

Designed for easy work with liquids. In most cases represent trough sized platen and platform with sloping edges, allowing to remove the excess paint or primer from the instrument. There are also models without fins, but they are not so comfortable. Trays are manufactured by small and large size rollers.

telescopic stick

Tool for extending roller pens. It represents a sliding stick with a narrowed tip. roller pens are usually hollow and depth - especially the top for receiving. The tip conforms to the shape of the cavity. To lengthen the stick is enough to twist its central part - is razozhmet lock, then the tool is pulled out to the required distance. Repeated torsion bundle clamps into place.

Float and trowel

Tool for mashing the top layer of plaster. Allocate polyurethane and wood variations. In the lower part models polyurethane coated fine plastic mesh for correct gripping is overwritten solution.

scrapers

The tool is a handle with a clamping blades. Used for the treatment of difficult places - remove stubborn glue and fugues with tiles, wallpaper strippers, remove excess epoxy and plastic water stains and irregularities. scraper blades are trapezium-shaped with a notch. Despite the apparent similarity with the writing, variations for knives in tool does not vlezut.

Mixers (ink-agitator)

For mixing solutions. Used as a nozzle on the electric or pneumatic tools. The shape of the mixer depends on its functionality. Variations for paint and slightly tapered mixtures contain 2-3 rows of coils. Most often this type has a painted surface. Mixers for solutions produced without protective coating, do not rust. The number of spiral turns increases.

mounting guns

For sealants and adhesive mixtures in cylinders. Most manufacturers considers this instrument in the category of paint, as it is used more often in conjunction with finishing processes. The device is a hollow frame with the pin, spacer and a long handle, a reinforced spring.

The balloon is inserted into the cavity with a pre-cut sealed by welding. The bottom of the package using the handle prozhimaetsya pin, wherein the extruded uniform stream of material. To stop the process, is bent at the base of the latch handle.

pros

Advantages of the paint tool are to simplify and accelerate the routine processes.

spatulas

• Steel models are not afraid of rust, can be used for years whether it is professional or consumer type tool. Same durable as metal ladders.
• The elasticity of the blades allows you to choose the optimum pressure for taking into account the weight and plasticity of the material fillings.
• Spatulas with increased blade length - 500 mm - suitable for a smooth and rapid solution covering large areas with a minimum of effort. Width depends on the instrument transitions number of layers and the need for frequent team fights material. The longer the spatula, the less time will be spent on corrective work solution joints.
• Tool with handle made at an angle, it is considered ergonomic. Spatula confidently holds the weight of the solution. Hands get tired less than using models without bending.

rollers

Advantages of the roller should be seen in comparison with the brushes:

• layer uniformity and lack of unnecessary transitions;
• possible to create a glossy or a matte surface depending on the type and coat of paint;
• acceleration processes for avoiding desiccation adjacent layers of the resulting paint and handling of transitions;
• Can be used with extension - telescopic stick (standing on the floor in the middle of a small room, you can paint the entire ceiling).

brush

Advantages similar brushes compared with rollers, although often practiced their sharing:

• Access to the corners and intricate machining position roller;
• lowering labor costs in order to bring the tool after operation;
• ability to weaning fine lines and curves - roller that work is not done properly;
• controllability ink volume and number of drips, rapid correction without unnecessary material expense.

Other painting tools

Benefits increasingly self-sufficient and do not require a comparison:

• lace - saves hours of routine work on the layout of the room. Line, broken-off tool, do not have kinks and generally more accurate than the pencil.
• trays - allow dosed paint consumption, improve ease of use with rollers and brushes. You do not have to wrestle with how to shove a 25-inch roll into a small jar at an angle without spilling its contents. Ribs for excess paint spin eliminate the sag.
• telescopic stick - facilitate access to high roller or a distant point. Painting and Wallpapering possible without the use of a telescope, but with the filling liquid floors and mastic in the absence of the extension becomes a problem.
• graters - none of the spatula can not wipe fresh plaster in a single plane, there will always be breaks and transitions. Poluterok not distort leveled surfaces. Tool impossible to spoil a plane - going point alignment on a single line.
• scrapers - accelerating the processes of purification of complex surfaces. More convenient than knives and spatula due trapezoidal blades. Tool quickly processed corners, seams and joints.
• Mixers - provide uniform promeshivanie all types of solutions. When there is this tool, the paint is often kneaded with a wooden stick, and dry mixes - a small spatula. The result is an uneven texture, lumps and transitions. Mixer neutralize these problems, raising the bottom of the solution. The acquisition of this nozzle pays on the first day at work with quick-mix - alabaster or fugenfyullerom.

• mounting guns - ensure uniform application of balloon sealants and adhesives. Metered volume and yield rate of the material from the tube contributes to the quality finishes.

Minuses

Disadvantages and inconveniences should be considered in relation to the types of tools and materials manufacturing.

spatulas

• Models with sharp corners at the slightest bending of the blade can spoil the clock alignment surfaces.
• Tool in most cases has a "built-in" curvature - gets the bends in transit, hanging in the window, in the production. The uneven plane on the blade or dents are left on the surface and crack fillings overlaps solution, which are difficult to correct.
• Putty is applied to the wall with the opening of the valve outlets and switches. The wet solution in combination with a plastic handle facing shpaklevschiku blows constant current. Models with rubber grips do not have similar problems, but they are presented in the category of professional tools, therefore, require excessive costs.
• Spatulas low elasticity complicate work. Application solutions such tool laborious, much time is spent on the correction of defects produced by the same tool. The same set of problems and there is too flexible spatulas.

rollers

• The tool is inconvenient for bottlenecks, ledges and corners. The application of paint to such surface is accompanied by its constant hit on the perpendicular plane in the form of thick smears or streaks. If they are not immediately seen, it is not always possible to correct correction.
• When working with acrylic paints increased attention paid to the quality of her coat and pressing roller. Acrylic does not allow room for error when applied, sometimes one is left out to repaint the entire villus makes glossy ceiling.
• Rollers with sutures leave noticeable transitions plane that can not be corrected without re-surface treatment.
• Rubber models often have incorrect plane roller - bulging or sagging. Such an instrument is difficult to expel air bubbles by rolling wallpaper joints required increased pressure on the roller, which is often the cause of breaking the plastic handles.

brush

• The tool is not suitable for setting the glossy surface - leave marks and transitions from the bristles, even with proper as a tool.
• If the room is colored roller brush and is used only for internal angles requires mandatory doprokatka transition between the layers. The difference in the texture and density of the coating material without this procedure is visible to the naked eye.
• The bristles on the basis of a weak adhesive, or under the influence of solvents and aggressive colors begin to split and fall out, leaving marks on the work surface.

other tools

Plastic parts painting tools - their weak point. Break, melt crumble from old age or contrasting temperature regimes. Require frequent replacement. If the instrument housing made of plastic, while its wear repair impossible. This performance made the majority of paint baths and otbivochnogo cords.

• telescopic stick - lock often fails, leaving only the base of the working length of the tool.
• mounting guns - tools with a tight swing pin is more powerful and easier to work with, but quickly breaks down. Often knocks back the membrane cylinders.
• Mixers - model paint for the most part are prone to corrosion. In continuous operation, the bumps and mixtures with the coating peels slightly tapered during mixtures, spoil material.
• scrapers - a specific form of the blades for replacement requires a mandatory visit to the store building in contrast to the knives. Working with the device requires strong pressure and pressure when cleaning surfaces with solidified material. pig pen often can not withstand the pressure.

How to choose the putty and paint tools

Choosing a paint tool is based on the tasks that use it to be resolved.

How to choose a spatula

The principle of selection is one flat trowel. In his hand clamped a few pieces of the blade exposed for viewing angle. In this position any appreciable metal bumps. They are not important when it comes to a small spatula, but are critical when selecting a tool larger than 500 mm.

Pay attention to these parameters:

• Presence enhanced platforms around the blade - it eliminates deflection trowel during operation and reduces the load on the hands.
• Rubberized grip - plating on plastic it is replaced. It prevents electric shocks that occur when working with wet solutions near the wirings, and also eliminates slipping tool.
• Collapsible design - part of the spatula is made in the form of blades, poured into plastic, but there are models with screw mounting, they are suitable for continuous operation, allow you to configure and monitor the status of the work surface.
• Corrosion resistance - some have a glossy spatula spraying against rust. When working with abrasive mixture is evaporated in a few hours. On the following day a spatula will be covered with dark spots, able to leave unwanted marks on plastered walls or wallpaper. Preferred models of stainless steel.

How to choose the rollers

Common points for all of the rollers having a nap:

• quality coat - threads should not freely vypadyvat, adhesive agent should be strong;
• in models with seam need to check its integrity, strength plating yarn;
• single roller plane without distortion and kinking verified by analogy with blades spatulas - instrument is set along the long side of the viewing angle setting is important when painting smooth surfaces;
• Knitted coat is used for coarse or rough surfaces - plaster or textured walls and ceilings, it absorbs a lot of paint, drips;
• paint rollers with a fur coat from a woven material suitable for smooth surfaces, doors, walls and ceilings finishing putty.

How to choose a brush to paint

Selection of brushes is reduced to determining the quality of the installation of bristles:

• Check the reliability of adhesive base of the villi in a weight loss brush is discarded.
• It is important that the rim pile was protected against corrosion.
• The evenness of the bristles and the ability to line up in the string are checked for dry. These parameters are critical to the paint work with a large number of diverse junctions and bottlenecks.

Which is better

Sets of optimal performance of the tool types.

What better spatulas

• reinforced blade clamping platform - the so-called two-component spatula;
• material - stainless steel;
• smooth blade medium flexibility without dents or bent parts;
• rubber handle, located at a slight angle;
• direct form the blade convenient trapezoidal.

What are the best rollers

• smooth roller plane, no edge protrusions on the edges;
• ability to change the coat;
• handle made of strong plastic, standard size - check the connector can be pushed on by the whip stick;
• coat ruptures and without traces of protruding villous;
• handle pin, onto which the roller should be made of stainless steel, or in the process of working with glue and paint will flow out of the skins brown liquid;
• roller end - in some models provided it fur coating, it is not suitable for accurate work with corners if the pile length exceeds 0.5 cm, but in appropriate velor types.

What better brush

• Brush with natural bristles are soft and porous. They are not destroyed by oil paints.
• Synthetic bristles are preferred for use with latex paints.
• Villus height and width of the base of the brush is adjusted for the particular type of work.
• Wooden handles with sputtering comfortable than plastic.

another tool

• clamps and clips should require medium effort - moving or too tight variations complicate the work;
• Soft plastic will quickly fail, preferred hard variation;
• quality fasteners, welds and joints in the assembly handgun determines their life;

Exploitation

Features of use painting tools do not contribute to a long service life. Liquid solutions, a mixture of abrasive and chemicals at a constant contact quickly lead unusable all types of devices.

• If the front spatula used for cleaning of floor coverings, the blade was bent, curved corners, the tool will not suitable for plastering work. The crude instrument with pieces of dried solution is also subject to distortions in trying to remove the excess. Model, volatile corrosion, lose gloss and covered with rusty spots.
• The rollers used for priming and works with enamels, should be washed immediately after use. Once is enough to forget the timely cleanup to spoil the tool. Working with latex paints also involves constant washing, the material is not settled on the pile indelible rubberized pieces.
• Brush after any work should be cleaned with solvents or running water, depending on the type of material with which tools to use.

Guarantee

On painter tool extends the standard warranty, which in most cases the period does not extend beyond 12 months. Must be replaced only devices with factory defects. Incorrect operation and mechanical damage, which may include working with krupnofraktsionnymi abrasive mixtures - reasons for denial of warranty.

Faults and repairs

The painting tools more rapid wear occurs in the plastic elements - handles, clamps, casing. Fixing reduced to temporary fixation parts masking tape, electrical tape or a suitable type of glue. Full repair is unprofitable in most cases.

• Two-component putty - the correctness of the blade bending corrected manually. Line quality is defined as the purchase. Edit required if during the operation occurred bend over the spatula or the curvature of the blade of the working plane. In models with cast plastic handle such repair can lead to a complete scrapping tool.
• mounting guns - wear retainer or clamping ring in the bottom of the device. In the first case the item is replaced with an analogue or cut out of a temporary plastic lever. Working with the tool when it loses speed and comfort. In the case of breaking the ring without welding the correct repair is impossible. As an interim measure, instead of the ring is placed thick wire.

Manufacturers spatulas and painting tools

Manufacturers Directory in the budget and mid-market.

BIBER - German manufacturer of the instrument. Budget average quality series. Paint tools: spatulas, rollers, brushes. Large dealer network.

FIT - manufacturer of the budget. Positions itself as a Russian, but the head office of the company located in Canada. The basis of the range of electric and pnevmomodeli. Paint tools presented by brush and roller. The warranty for the manual model to be announced. Website: www.fit-instrument.ru

KRAFTOOL - the German manufacturer of professional hand equipment types. The series has single-component masking spatulas, brushes and scrapers. Warranty terms and conditions to be announced. Website: kraftool.com.

Santool - wholesale supplier of hand tools, the Moscow company. It acts as an aggregator, which is a model different manufacturers, but develops and its brands. Website: santool.pro.

STAYER - the manufacturer from Germany. It specializes in all types of repair facilities. Decorating accessories in the middle price segment, reinforced by the variation with an ergonomic design and rubber grip. warranty conditions are stated only for the equipment - 2 years. Website: www.stayer-tools.com.

Zubr - Russian manufacturer of the equipment budget for household and professional use. Spatulas are presented in plastic and two-component variations. The standard warranty is 5 years, but mentioned only electricity and pnevmomodeli, conditions of painting tools not specified. Website: zubr.ru.