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"Andrew Mawson" wrote:


I've totally given up washing gloss paint brushes. At the end of the
day I wrap them tightly in cling film. Next day I smooth them out with
a rag soaked in white spirit and carry on painting. At the end of the
job the brush gets thrown away and a new one bought for the next job.
Saves a huges amount of time and considerable amounts of white spirit.

AWEM


Interesting tip, but I wouldn't like to throw my brushes away as I've
had some of them for over twenty years, although I don't tend to mix
household synthetic oil paints with vehicle coach enamels as the
household paints tend to silt up the stock quite quickly.

I have other brushes reserved only for emulsions, cleaning is a pain but
worth it on expensive brushes, but I do recycle white spirit etc for
future use.

Stephen.


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