So that the brushes serve us more than once, they should be properly taken care of and cleaned in a timely manner of paint or varnish residues.
For cleaning the brushes, this is what we need: washing powder, solvent, rag, comb, tank for solvent, container for soap solution. At leisure it will not be superfluous to find out everything about the pride of the ELFA on the site.
Using a rag, remove the remains of not dried paint from the pile. You need to do this gently pressing the brushes to the rags so that the bristles do not glue even more. We dip the brushes into a container with white spirit (or any other suitable solvent) so that the pile is well soaked. Wipe the residue of the solvent with a rag. We dilute the washing powder with warm water and rinse the brushes in this soap solution, rinse with running water. If necessary, the procedure should be repeated several more times, until the pile of the brushes becomes soft and low -fat, and water – transparent.
Now the brushes should be combed with a comb. Try to do it carefully so as not to damage the pile. Next – drying. To do this, we suspend the brush vertically with bristle down. If you have taken a break during painting, to avoid drying the paint, wrap your brushes with polyethylene or foil.