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Paint Brushes

The Trade1st.co.uk web site offers a comprehensive and unique range of brushes. We list the highest quality trade specification, natural bristle brushes and synthetic filament brushes, suiting personal preference and differing painting requirements. We supply high quality brushes, such as the Purdy Monarch Elite paint brush or the Hamilton Perfection paint brush to cost effective cheap paint brushes such as the Trade1st Basic Paint Brush range.

We select and list the leading Brands in high quality brushes. These are tested using UK paints and are from the World’s leading brush manufacturers. Manufacturers from the USA such as Wooster and Purdy who manufacture some of the finest synthetic brushes and have done so since the 1970’s when trading relations prevented the supply of Chinese pig bristle, thus forcing the US manufacturers to develop man made synthetic brushes. The UK’s leading brush manufactures such as Harris and Hamilton Acorn are renowned for high quality natural bristle brushes, however the short supply of high quality Chinese pig natural bristle due to a change in farming practices is forcing the development of synthetic brushes.

Selecting the correct brush for quality or specialist use is a personal and logical choice. Selecting cheap paint brushes is ideally suited to the application of paints when cleaning of the brush is not an option. Many decorators use cheap paint brushes and dispose of the cheap paint brushes to avoid cleaning. High quality brushes will last much longer even with regular cleaning and reduce paint application time, therefore saving valuable time. Saving money on the purchase of cheap paint brushes can be a false economy as a cheap paint brushes will need replacing sooner, adding more cost to the work.

Trade1st also offers a unique range of sizes and specialist use brushes, many of the specialist sizes are only available from Trade1st.co.uk. Narrow width brushes 0.5 Inch, 0.75 Inch and 1 Inch are ideally suited to detailed painting where accuracy is essential, as are small sash painting brushes No 5/0, No 3/0, No 0 and No 2 and also fitch brushes which are available round, flat and slant lining. Medium width brushes 1.5 Inch, 2 Inch and 2.5 Inch are best suited to cutting in around window and door frames; these also include sash painting brushes No 4, No 6 and No8. Large width brushes width 3 Inch, 4 Inch, 5 inch and 6 Inch are best suited to painting large open areas, high quality brushes of this size will hold a large amount of paint, speeding up the work.

There are many other specialist paint brush and cheap paint brushes types many of which have self explanatory names angled trim brushes such as Purdy Glide Elite Paint Brush - these are designed for greater accuracy cutting in and angled handle brushes hard to access painting. A masonry brush has hard wearing bristle and most suited to painting rough surfaces. Striker or industrial brushes have long handles and allow the user to paint areas where access equipment is not an option. Wallpaper paste brushes and varnish brushes have self explanatory uses.