Silverline 244979 Disposable Utility Brushes 5 Piece Set

I needed a number of disposable brushes for some work on my home painting skirting boards and around doors ect ., I know from previous experience that I used similar method with disposable brushes and it really is the best way to go this time .I spotted these and thought they would do fine . In my experience *all * brushes and shed , these look fine and there is a method you can try to check the shreddy effect if that will happen ..get a bit of sandpaper , a piece I mean and go back and forward with your dry brush over the sandpaper see if anything comes off the brushes ..now to me these look FINE ..you have to remember with all brushes a hair or fibres and come out even with the good ones ..these are fine for me , I haven't used them yet but they are in the gallery ..shot ive taken..see image of how they arrived.

Feel nice and softHaven’t used them yetWould cost more in brush cleaner than they cost

Don't expect much for the price and you won't be disappointed. It says in the title disposable and you would be hard pushed to get more than a single use out of these.The bristles are not particularly well mounted so you can expect a few to detach with anything more than delicate use. The finer brushes are not bound well enough for fine cutting in or detail work but if like me you are painting and weatherproofing a shed or doing the garden fence then these are just the job.

If you're on a budget, or just can't be bothered to clean your brushes to use again, these are great for the money. I was actually doing a project for a paint brand and they supplied some brushes but I needed a bigger variety of sizes so ordered these, not expecting much.They look pretty basic but the bristles were quite tightly packed, and I got decent results when using them. They held the paint well and gave a smooth finish with only a couple of bristles coming loose.They're described as disposable but I cleaned and reused them several times. They do lose more bristles after several uses but they're not intended for that, and still gave a satisfactory result on my walls and wood work, with my project photos being used for promotional purposes by the paint brand, so clearly they thought the paintwork looked good.

At a price like this you can just use them once and throw away. No need to spend time trying to clean with white spirit. The quality of the brushes is as good as it needs to be and are comparable to brushes you would get from a diy store for a few pounds. Of course if you spend more at a diy store you can get high quality brushes that would be better for cutting in. But honestly these are perfect for most jobs around the home with a range pf sizes included.

Perfect. Have you ever tried leaving a brush in a jar of white spirit on a sailing boat? Neither have I, but now I don't need to chuck a half decent brush out when I need to touch up a bit of antifoul, hammerite, varnish or paint. Also invaluable for cleaning the nasty bits of the bikes, motor and pedal. I have bought cheap plastic brushes in the past, but chucking plastics in the bin never appeals.Although not a fully paid up eco warrior I do care, and despite the disposability of these brushes I think they are probably greenish. For a start the construction is natural; wood, metal, and bristle. Then there's the cleaning solvent question. Where does all that paint polluted white spirit go? Of course. Silly me, I forgot that everybody will dispose of it responsibly at the local recycling centre.Finally, there's the cost to think about. Have you seen the price of hammerite solvent?

I shouldn't complain for the price, but these are really not very durable brushes. I bought them to do the cutting in on a feature wall, which I was painting a light grey/blue colour. They were fine for the first few brush strokes, but the minute the brush was not completely stuffed full with paint, the bristles started shedding all over the place, which was awful when I was trying to do long, steady brush strokes. Being dark bristles, they really showed up on the light coloured paint, which I suppose was a blessing because it alerted me to the fact that a bristle or two was lodged in the wet paint.The ends of the handles I received weren't red, they were blue. Why am I mentioning this? Because the blue comes off everywhere. I tried to flick a couple of stray bristles off the wall with the end of the brush, and I had a blue streak on the wall, as if someone had run a crayon through it. I also had bright blue tinges to my hands.I've got two hairy dogs at home, and I don't think they shed half as much as these do. On the plus side, one of the dogs thought that running off with the packaging was a good laugh, so at least they're not entirely useless. The dog's had some use out of them.

Undertaking a major refit on my boat - and there are a hundred and one requirements for brushes. Adding rust treatment, primer, glue, undercoat, wood stain. all to small areas, and not as the 'main painting', just all the prep work, and touching up - so you don't need the grief of having jam jars of thinners with a brush stood in... That will be too full of thinners to be any use when you next want it., it is far easier to just chuck it away and get a fresh clean brush each time. Time is money and I believe this is saving time that more than justifies the process. When it's time to apply top coats and varnish I will step up to decent brushes - these do shed the occasional bristle - but there are so many of them in this pack, and they have decent wooden handles, so they feel good. Great value, and I expect I will still have plenty left over for the next project