Hammilton brushes? Went to my local b&q for paint brushes and thought i would...
Went to my local b&q for paint brushes and thought i would buy hamilton brushes as i heard they are good but which one's do i choose for undercoat and interpret and emulsion.
They sell
hamilton super contractor paint brush
hamilton perfection paint brush
hamilton perfection gold paint brush
hamilton trade paint brush
Hamilton perfection for your grease work, (gloss/undercoat)
The trade range for everything else If you go to http://www.hamilton-acorn.co.uk/hamilton... you can download a (quite large) brochure nearly all their products.
Perfection myself failing that perfection gold ones. The basic difference between most brushes your find in b&q etc are the density of the bristles. Own brand tend to be fairly scraggy and thus your get more drips. Don't be fooled by fancy handles.
Advice
If your simply after creosoting a fence, big cheep brush.
Cutting in brush, feature name and as big as you feel comfortable next to and make sure its dense (feel the brush).
Pasting brush, big style emulsion brush (looks like a average brush but will be wooden handle, striped bristles and copper band round the bristles fairly than cheap white metal) not the cheap little brown brush with that silly hook edge (your in recent times end up ripping ya paper as you brush out the paste).
This brush will cost a bit but last a life time if kept correctly.
Had mine over 15 years now!
Emulsion Brush
Same as above for Pasting.
Glossing and undercoat
Just clear sure the brush is dense as said above, gloss is the last point you want dripping.
Also look after them, clean with preferred fluids and wirebrush out the paint.
Answers: Hamilton Perfection for oil-based paints, a 1 inch and a 2 inch for undercoating and glossing (a professional will prob. make the addition of half inch onto those sizes). Just use quality brushes for white paint and don't interchange the colours - preserve white brushes white and buy a cheaper brush for a coloured front door and don't try to turn it into a white brush afterwards (I chuck coloured brushes once I know I will never use that colour again).
A synthetic bristle brush for cutting in wall emulsion (flatten paint beside 4 inch foam roller as you go).
Don't wash out your oil-brushes every night. Brush cleaner and white spirit is greatly hard on the bristles and unecessary. If your oil brushes can't find air, they cannot dry out - so every night put your grease brushes into a pot of water just covering the bristles - subsequent day, take them outside, shake past its sell-by date the water, wipe the outside down with a tablecloth, and off you go again. You can leave your job your oil brushes in dampen for weeks.
Overnight put your water based brushes and rollers into plastic food and plastic shipper bags, squeeze out the air, and again they can't achieve air so cannot dry.
Trade ones are fine for all your wishes 1 set for water based and another for grease with spares for strong colours