The Best Paint Rollers for a Better Finish on Your Next Project

Best paint roller guide
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Getting your hands on the best paint roller will help make your next paint project a big success. Whether you're painting walls, ceilings, doors, furniture or the outside of your home a paint roller will make it quicker, easier and give a great finish. 

If you're painting a ceiling and walls, the common 9-inch medium pile roller is your best choice. Try it with an extension or use a pole roller to reach those out-of-reach areas such as stairwells. If you want to give your doors, kitchen cabinets or furniture a smooth finish you’ll need a 4-inch foam roller. 

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Steve Jenkins

Steve Jenkins is a freelance content creator with over two decades of experience working in digital and print and was previously the DIY content editor for Homebuilding & Renovating. 

He is a keen DIYer with over 20 years of experience in transforming and renovating the many homes he has lived in. He specialises in painting and decorating, but has a wide range of skills gleaned from working in the building trade for around 10 years and spending time at night school learning how to plaster and plumb.

He has fitted kitchens, tiled bathrooms and kitchens, laid many floors, built partition walls, plastered walls, plumbed in bathrooms, worked on loft conversions and much more. And when he's not sure how to tackle a DIY project he has a wide network of friends – including plumbers, gas engineers, tilers, carpenters, painters and decorators, electricians and builders – in the trade to call upon.