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amalthiaHello everyone,
I'm seeing mixed messages online about how to clean your paint brushes. Some people say use buckets and other articles say if it's water based paint and on city water line you can rinse in sinks. I'm also finding a lot of youtube videos of painters washing their paint brushes in sinks. Even home depot instructions show someone rinsing the brush in a sink under running water.
I sadly didn't look at this topic until after I'd already washed my 2 inch paint brush in kitchen sink. Otherwise, I would have just tossed the brush in the trash and moved on with my life already.
I think my plumbing should be okay because the paint I used was water based, I used warm water and dish liquid soap, and I don't think I had that much paint on the brush. I also only ended up rinsing this brush one time.
It seems weird that rinsing brushes in sinks would clog drains. If that was the case how are artists cleaning their brushes? I have a hard time imagining them be rinsing all of their brushes off with buckets of water and waiting for the water to evaporate before they throw away the paint pieces that fell to the bottom.
Also, how are professional painters handling their brushes? Based off youtube videos they are rinsing the water based paint off into sinks. Not sure if that's a good idea or not, but I think they'd lose a lot of money if they had to throw away their brushes every day instead of cleaning them for use.
Home renovations are hard. With every step I'm discovering more things I don't know, worse I don't even know I need to know something before it's too late. I'm just glad I had used paper towels to clean the worst off my tools when I fixed the grout holes in my shower. Basically, you do not want to rinse grout down sinks either, or caulk. I did end up rinsing some of this stuff down the sink because it was on my hands but I tried my best.
I'm seeing mixed messages online about how to clean your paint brushes. Some people say use buckets and other articles say if it's water based paint and on city water line you can rinse in sinks. I'm also finding a lot of youtube videos of painters washing their paint brushes in sinks. Even home depot instructions show someone rinsing the brush in a sink under running water.
I sadly didn't look at this topic until after I'd already washed my 2 inch paint brush in kitchen sink. Otherwise, I would have just tossed the brush in the trash and moved on with my life already.
I think my plumbing should be okay because the paint I used was water based, I used warm water and dish liquid soap, and I don't think I had that much paint on the brush. I also only ended up rinsing this brush one time.
It seems weird that rinsing brushes in sinks would clog drains. If that was the case how are artists cleaning their brushes? I have a hard time imagining them be rinsing all of their brushes off with buckets of water and waiting for the water to evaporate before they throw away the paint pieces that fell to the bottom.
Also, how are professional painters handling their brushes? Based off youtube videos they are rinsing the water based paint off into sinks. Not sure if that's a good idea or not, but I think they'd lose a lot of money if they had to throw away their brushes every day instead of cleaning them for use.
Home renovations are hard. With every step I'm discovering more things I don't know, worse I don't even know I need to know something before it's too late. I'm just glad I had used paper towels to clean the worst off my tools when I fixed the grout holes in my shower. Basically, you do not want to rinse grout down sinks either, or caulk. I did end up rinsing some of this stuff down the sink because it was on my hands but I tried my best.