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What should I use a roller or brush? These are just two of the many questions you may ask yourself before you start painting your home. Experts know what a challenging and rewarding experience painting can be and that's why they've provided some simple tips to make your next paint job easier. It's generally a good idea to paint a room in the following order: ceiling, walls, doors, windows, radiators and baseboards. For the best results, always take the time to read the label instructions carefully. Paint product improvements and new developments are constantly being introduced„so the way you applied paint yesterday may not be right for the product you buy today. Make sure you prepare the area properly as this will have a major effect on how long the job will last, as well as how good it looks. Remove all furniture, pictures, plants and loose items to create a safe and neat work area and then cover it with drop sheets. And, make sure you wear proper clothing including a hat, gloves and protective eye wear. It is important to ensure that steps ladders are properly positioned. Ladders should be a foot out for every four feet high. Never try to overreach — that's when accidents happen. Paint in good daylight to avoid any missed patches. When painting, try to complete a whole area (wall, door, etc.) at once, or you will leave marks owing to different drying times. Rollers are ideal for painting large areas and brushes get right into corners or edges. For the best results always, use good quality brushes and rollers since it directly effects the quality of the finished job and the ease with which the paint is controlled and applied. When using a brush, dip up to one-third of the bristles in the paint to load the brush. The brush should be held like a pen, leaving a free wrist to move in both directions. When painting with latex products use a synthetic brush; when painting with alkyd products use a bristle brush. Like brushes, there are several types of rollers to suit different paint jobs. A roller will cover walls and ceilings quickly and evenly. Pour a moderate quantity of paint into a clean roller tray. To load the roller, roll it backwards and forwards in the paint tray, pushing it up to the top of the slope to remove excess paint in only one direction. The roller should rotate freely and not skid over the surface. Apply with criss-cross strokes to the surface, ensuring a smooth start and finish to each stroke. Hurried roller movements will cause "splatter". Blend the edges of the next application while the paint is still wet, or a hard edge will show. When cleaning, latex paint can be cleaned from hands and tools with water and alkyd paint can be cleaned from hands and tools with paint thinner. When finished, use a brush spinner to dry your brushes and rollers. 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But what about that chain-link fence, those concrete patio stones or that vinyl lounge chair? How do we replace the thousands of tons of ore that went into the manufacture of steel, or the millions of litres of petroleum that went into making plastic components? The answer is — we can't. Those resources are finite. Once we consume them, they are gone forever. And the manufacturing process has added to the world's pollution problems. A study by the Canadian Research Alliance examined the relative environmental impacts of various building materials. The results clearly demonstrate that the manufacture of wood products is cleaner, less wasteful, and consumes less energy than the alternatives. Life-cycle analysis shows that a steel wall requires three to six times more energy to extract, manufacture and construct than a wood wall. The steel wall also uses 25 times more water in its manufacture, and releases three to six times more carbon dioxide than wood, and results in five times more solid waste. The production of aluminum generates eight times more polluting emissions in the air and 300 times more in the water, than the manufacture of lumber. The manufacture of aluminum siding requires five times more energy than lumber. So when you go to buy the materials for that new fence or deck, consider the alternatives — and make an informed choice.