Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a roller
for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder - when were paint
rollers introduced and when did they get into common usage? Perhaps the old
"distempers" were not very 'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex,
Brolac.........................


Regards

John Plant

On Jun 1, 3:51*pm, "DerbyBoy" No-one wrote:
Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a roller
for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder - when were paint
rollers introduced and when did they get into common usage? Perhaps the old
"distempers" were not very 'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex,
Brolac.........................

Regards

John Plant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_roller
invented 1940
Still got some brolac somewhere


NT

On 01/06/2011 17:33, Tabby wrote:
On Jun 1, 3:51 pm, "DerbyBoy"No-one wrote:
Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a roller
for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder - when were paint
rollers introduced and when did they get into common usage? Perhaps the old
"distempers" were not very 'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex,
Brolac.........................

Regards

John Plant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_roller
invented 1940
Still got some brolac somewhere


NT

My parents had a spray painting attachment for the vacuuum cleaner! You
took the hose off one end, put it on the other so that it was blowing
and attached the spray painting unit - it was totally useless though.

They also had one of those wallpaper pasting machines. That was a little
more successful, but took way too much cleaning up and had a habit of
popping the rollers out mid-way through.

SteveW

Steve Walker wrote:
My parents had a spray painting attachment for the vacuuum cleaner! You
took the hose off one end, put it on the other so that it was blowing
and attached the spray painting unit - it was totally useless though.

Wonderful for that loverly veneer of dust and paint specks

JGH

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:33:24 -0700 (PDT), Tabby
wrote:


Still got some brolac somewhere

It only went off sale just over five years ago when it was replaced by
Macphersons, which was/is actually the same paint.

"DerbyBoy" No-one wrote in message ...
Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a roller for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder -
when were paint rollers introduced and when did they get into common usage? Perhaps the old "distempers" were not very
'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex, Brolac.........................


Regards

John Plant

# Non-drip Jellipex, makes good painting easy...#

# Hadrian, Hadrian the deep gloss paint, for a really professional finish, use Hadrian.#

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On Monday, 13 June 2011 at 21:41:46 UTC+1, Graham. wrote:
"DerbyBoy" No-one wrote in message ...
Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a roller for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder -
when were paint rollers introduced and when did they get into common usage? Perhaps the old "distempers" were not very
'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex, Brolac.........................


Regards

John Plant
# Non-drip Jellipex, makes good painting easy...#
# Hadrian, Hadrian the deep gloss paint, for a really professional finish, use Hadrian.#
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Graham.
%Profound_observation%

On Monday, 13 June 2011 at 21:41:46 UTC+1, Graham. wrote:
"DerbyBoy" No-one wrote in message ...
Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a roller for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder -
when were paint rollers introduced and when did they get into common usage? Perhaps the old "distempers" were not very
'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex, Brolac.........................


Regards

John Plant
# Non-drip Jellipex, makes good painting easy...#
# Hadrian, Hadrian the deep gloss paint, for a really professional finish, use Hadrian.#
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Graham.
%Profound_observation%

I guess its better than rolling with a painter?

We had a roller in 1956, in a flat we had in Wandsworth, but it was pretty
crude made of cheapo plastic foam and on ceilings, according to my dad, I
was only 6 at the time, left big bits unpainted and could not be cleaned. A
waste of money.
Brian

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On Monday, 13 June 2011 at 21:41:46 UTC+1, Graham. wrote:
"DerbyBoy" No-one wrote in message
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Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a
roller for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder -
when were paint rollers introduced and when did they get into common
usage? Perhaps the old "distempers" were not very
'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex,
Brolac.........................


Regards

John Plant
# Non-drip Jellipex, makes good painting easy...#
# Hadrian, Hadrian the deep gloss paint, for a really professional
finish, use Hadrian.#
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It must have been good they named a wall after him.
Anyway, My feeling on the old original roller was it was a name that
started with wall, but was much longer.
Brian

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On Monday, 13 June 2011 at 21:41:46 UTC+1, Graham. wrote:
"DerbyBoy" No-one wrote in message
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Just doing a spot of painting and remembered that my parents used a
roller for the first time in around 1960. It made me wonder -
when were paint rollers introduced and when did they get into common
usage? Perhaps the old "distempers" were not very
'roller-friendly'.

Remember some of the old names Walpamur, Jellipex,
Brolac.........................


Regards

John Plant
# Non-drip Jellipex, makes good painting easy...#
# Hadrian, Hadrian the deep gloss paint, for a really professional
finish, use Hadrian.#
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%Profound_observation%

On 22/09/2020 15:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I guess its better than rolling with a painter?

We had a roller in 1956, in a flat we had in Wandsworth, but it was pretty
crude made of cheapo plastic foam and on ceilings, according to my dad, I
was only 6 at the time, left big bits unpainted and could not be cleaned. A
waste of money.
Brian


Just bung paint rollers in the washing machine on a cold wash and they
clean up nicely (assuming water based paints).

I forget which of the varied paints I've used during lockdown caused the
problem but one of them destroyed foam rollers. OK for around 10 minutes
use but then the roller started reducing rapidly in diameter as the foam
disappeared.

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