Paint Pads

Paint Pads: Ditch the roller! (933 words)
by Shazzy - written on 15.02.02 (Very useful, 2303 readings)
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Paint pads have been on the market for a good few years now, and I honestly thought that just about everybody who’s done any recent decorating would’ve tried them at some point. Not so. My best friend had never tried them. She’d stuck with her faithful roller through thick and thin. Well there’s nothing wrong with loyalty, but sometimes it’s worth trying something new. It’s a long time since I last used a roller and I doubt anybody could persuade me to go back to them. We built our own house once, and part of my job was to paint the whole thing. It was a big house too and I wanted it to look nice without getting too fed up ...

MAKE IT EASY (1027 words)
by thingywhatsit - written on 10.05.05 (Very useful, 3398 readings)
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I have painted for most of my life, both for myself and for other people and am very acquainted with new products that come on the market as well as knowing a lot about painting techniques. When I first saw Paintpads, I was a little cautious. They looked as if they could work, though a little voice inside me told me that my nine years of training preferred traditional methods such as rollers and paintbrushes. Open to all new inventions, I decided that I would give this little gizmos a go, and in some ways was pleasantly surprised. These are made by Flock Development and Research Limited, and they have obviously done their homework. What they found ...

And on the 7th Day, God created Paint Pads (1095 words)
by Scooobydooo - written on 08.03.04 (Very useful, 587 readings)
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It is great having an artist as a husband, but his ideas of painting is totally different to mine. Darling the Hall needs painting, should we do it this week? I come home from work and fine a 3ft by 3ft canvas on the wall and the walls are the same colour as what they were when I left for work that day. He seems to think this is hysterically funny but no matter what I say his idea of painting is only on canvas. He has tried all sorts of get out clauses in the past and one of his favourite is to get a paint brush and paint the walls but I usually find the floor has more on it or he has so many drips on the wall, ...