# Painting, rollers, lint question(s)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-rollers-lint-question-s/532536>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 15, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-rollers-lint-question-s/532536 "2010-03-15T13:00:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-rollers-lint-question-s/532536/21 "2010-03-16T18:11:32Z")

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> [@CC](#):
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> Just curious - how much time do you spend painting an average sized room? Do you have a regular job, too?

If I can take all the furniture out, about 2 days. If I have to just move things around and do one wall at a time, about a week. My regular job is full time caregiver for my decrepit old mother, so in other words, painting her damn walls.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-rollers-lint-question-s/532536/22 "2010-03-16T18:16:38Z")

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> [@Cheshire\_Human](#):
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> A top line set, I hope. The camel-hair ones are available at art stores, but the ordinary house painting ones are in hardware stores. Don’t get the black ones. Go for the ones that have bristles consisting of a light brown shaft with a finer white tip. Tug on the bristles lightly. If any come out, ask to see another brand. Treat 'em right and they will last forever.

I picked them out with **Jimbo** - he wouldn’t let me buy crappy ones. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-rollers-lint-question-s/532536/23 "2010-03-17T02:40:42Z")

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> [@Cheshire\_Human](#):
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> If I can take all the furniture out, about 2 days. If I have to just move things around and do one wall at a time, about a week. My regular job is full time caregiver for my decrepit old mother, so in other words, painting her damn walls.

Man, and I thought by the time I finished (with rollers), it’d be time to start painting all over again!

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