Axus DecorCaptain Chunk Mini Roller (Onyx Series) for Professional & DIY Projects, Ideal for Masonry & Rough Surfaces, Excellent Coverage, 5"/125mm,2Pk

From a still active painter of 37yrs, these are the BEST mini rollers you can buy, here's why & what makes them better than the rest & why i only use these,purdy is a big name in painting & rightly so i use all there gear but they don't have mini rollers as good as these, & unlike other mini roller sleeves the pile on these covers the roller completely even on the edge which helps the paint roll into the corners of walls & ceilings so you don't have to use a brush & you get a continuous roller finish as opposed to brush finish in corners then roller finish on main part of area painted, more professional finish ? Also time saving as no need to use steps & a brush as before, these are heavy rollers & hold huge amounts of paint so a tip if you don't want a too heavy finish is add a tiny amount of water to emulsion & run off the roller in the tray so there's not much paint as it goes a long way, if you tape top of skirtings to stop spray from normal roller when doing rest of the area, then use it to do there too so it just leaves cutting in with brush at top, just tap the edge of roller on the run off part of bucket or tray to coat the edge with paint,im giving all my tips away here 😉

Brilliant

Worked well on tyrolean applied k-rend that had lost it's colour and was stained. It was as hard and jagged of surface you could find, awful to paint.This roller was the best way I could find of getting some coverage. It did loose chunks of bristles but it was hardly surprising given how sharp the render was. Tip- I found watering down the first coat worked to get the render covered, then doing two more coats of neat paint that went on better.Johnstone's Stormshield (trade) paint was used; expensive but excellent results.

Brilliant for pebbledash

Excellent for very rough surfaces and much quicker than using a brush

Didn’t realise it wouldn’t fit on too a standard roller handle & only just got round to using it so was a little disappointed but I suppose it’s my fault

There are three ways to paint very chunky pebble dash:1. Spraying - you need to be very careful of overspray, and you need to do a lot of masking off. The house I was doing had a lot of gables, and masking them all up would have taken way too long.2. Brushing - this is always what I used to do, with a good masonry brush you can get into all the nooks and crannies between the pebbles, but it takes a very long time.3. Rolling - you need a very long pile roller. I've tried this in the past with mixed results. The fibres tend to mat down into the pile somewhat, especially as you apply pressure to get the paint into the nooks and crannies.The advantage of the Captain Chunk roller is that not only does it have the long fibres, but it also has a partly foam core, so you can apply a lot of pressure to the roller to get it into crannies, and then the foam springs back. Basically, it works. It won't get into really deep crevices, of course, but that's when you go over these areas quickly with a brush after the first coat.The only problem I had with the roller was losing some of the fibres onto the masonry as I rolled. These had to be picked off the pebbledash. It was very sharp and lumpy pebbledash, so to be expected up to a point. I don't know whether this is inevitable or whether Axus to get the fibres glued onto the core even more tightly.Would I use it again? Yes - the next pebble dash house I have to paint will be painted with one of these roller sleeves.

Bought these on a recommendation and couldn’t be happier. Needed for a stucco exterior, did the job great…would recommend 100%

Night and day difference from a cheap roller. It holds a ton of paint and leaves no lint behind. The only problem now is that I don't want to use the second one until I have a job that's worth using such a nice roller!