Rolling Application Note

Rolling this product is a bit trickier than rolling normal latex paint. This means that attention must be paid to application method and roller handling. The roller should be a lint free fabric type 1/4" or 5mm nap (pile) type. No foam or soft haired rollers. We have found that this fabric type of roller gives the best combination of texture and rolling control.

Place about 200mL of Basecoat in the paint tray to do your first coat. Load the roller very lightly. Dab some on one side of the roller, rotate and dab some on the other. You should have enough paint on the roller to complete approximately two vertical columns with a bit left over.

Roll the coatings using vertical strokes covering the full height of the screen. The coating density should be just sufficient to cover the underlying surface. After the first stroke, apply the second full height stroke, with a slight overlap. Place approximately the same amount of paint on the roller again, and lay down an adjacent two to three rows of coating. Then go back to the start of the screen and complete a full finishing stroke over the original first stroke, in a straight run, from top to bottom of the screen. You must go from over the top edge, to off the bottom of the screen. This is to prevent marks caused by stopping the roller on the viewing surface. From this point, continue the screen coating job by moving across the screen, bit by bit, two rows at a time. The finishing strokes should be applied very lightly, making sure the open end of the roller (which receives less pressure) is on the just coated side, so that the overlaying layer will have a somewhat feathered edge. The wire support side of the roller mechanism naturally presses harder on the surface of the screen, so it should be oriented to the least recently coated side of the screen. The finishing strokes should be done no more than 2-3 minutes after the original paint strokes in a given area. Remember, the finishing strokes should have a slight overlap, run from top to bottom of the screen travelling past the perimeter edges.

After applying the first full screen layer coating of the Basecoat, you should have a better idea of usage levels. After allowing the Basecoat to dry thoroughly (typically 1-2 hrs.) repeat the above procedures for the second layer of Basecoat. Use the same procedures to apply two coats of Topcoat.

Larger screens may benefit from small amount of an extra agent called Goo Systems "Flow Release" mixed into the coatings. This will slow the drying process enough to minimize potential problems in application in very dry environments. A little Flow Release goes a very long way. One or two drops per 200mL is a good place to start. Add incrementally more if your first stroke starts to dry before the second is applied. Please ask for our advice if you are intending to execute a substantially large screen. Flow Release will dramatically slow the drying time (double it, or more) and allow for a much more perfect surfaces on large screens. It may take 3-6 hours to have a layer dry with this product in use, but the "lay" of the coatings on the surface will be noticeably more correct and you will have more time to work the surface.