Recommend your experience with type of paint rollers!

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southcoasting
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Recommend your experience with type of paint rollers!

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All,
Can you give some recommendations on paint rollers to use for:

2 part epoxy primers
2 part polyurethane finish coats
Non-skid coatings

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Recommend your experience with type of paint rollers!

Post by CapnK »

There are rollers made for epoxy primers/paint on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0168S0958/

I've used these from Ace with 1-part poly:

http://www.acehardware.com/product/inde ... Id=1278271

WRT non-skid, I know the Kiwi-Grip brand uses a special extra-foamy roller that looks like it makes the paint pull up and get "stringy" and create extra texture from that. If you are just putting an additive into your paint for the non-skid areas, then the rollers you used otherwise would still work fine.

I haven't yet used the KiwiGrip but plan to - it gets such good reviews.

HTH! :)
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