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I've been using tray liners, but this seems alot more environmentally friendly - I guess you could even put the peeled paint in some water, reconstitute and reuse?

I saw these on tv - so cool. The company also makes teflon coated rollers that are supposedly much more efficient at getting more pain on the wall rather than soaking into the roller.

pain=paint. Freudian slip, me thinks!

somehow i think teflon seems unnecessary here. maybe it's the kind of paint i've used, but i've been able to peel the layer right out of a regular pan.

i think teflon's on the toxic side.

Don't be fooled. I bought one from HD. Yes it is easy to clean, but it's not just a matter of peeling a single sheet away. But, all in all, I did like it much better than disposable paint tray liners.

I bought one of these too, but it's teflon effect wore off completely after I used it for priming.
I think pinko is right, I've got a regular one too & that peels off well enough, & what doesn't peel off can be washed off. My suggestion is if you buy the teflon one, buy another one for the primer.

bepsf,

Latex-based paints (those that clean up with water) dry water-proof. A chemical change takes place as they dry. Pretty cool, huh?

This is probably expensive and teflon is environmentally 'heavy', more so when it is eventually disposed of.

And what is the purpose? A tray, roller and handle set costs (or needs to cost) next to nothing. 70 cents for a laquer set, and 1,60 for a full size set. That's Euros, but still...

From the usual ones it is also posible to peel some kinds of paint. However paint will stick wherever there are scratches, and spatters of paint are hard to get rid of.

Let the paint dry well before re-using the tray, and use a new one for the final coat of critical laquer work.

Maybe I let too little or too much paint dry on the teflon, but I ended up scraping off tiny bits of paint with my fingernails for about an hour. And it has these little metal legs that can do a number on your sink.

WARNING: We bought one of these when painting my office along with two of the shurline twist and reach roller frames and the tray was too narrow to accommodate the twist and reach rollers. The actual roller fit into the tray, but the 'axle' (or whatever it may be called that connects the roller to the handle) would impede getting the roller fully immersed in the paint.

It was a total pain in the ass and resulted in a second trip to the paint store. Afterwards, we tried to remove the paint skin like in the photo and it was far from easy.

I could see one company's product not working with another, but it's just terrible planning when something like this happens. lame...

i use aluminum foil as a paint tray liner as i always have it and it's the easiest cleanup of all!