Product Description

No need for a tray liner with this new Teflon surface protective coating. Specially made for latex paints. The tray cleans up fast with the dry, peel, and toss method. The dried latex paint just peels off of the protected surface. for use with a standard

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110613 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Shur-Line
• Model: 12400
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 15.13" h x 10.75" w x 2.38" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• Teflon metal tray
• Engineered for all paints
• Abrasion resistant
• Dry and peel tray coating

From the Manufacturer
The Teflon metal paint tray eliminates the typically messy and time consuming clean up. No need to wash and scrub with water; simply dry and peel. Engineered for all paints.

Customer Reviews

teflon isn't useful for real application
The teflon coating allows the paint to be peeled up only if the paint is thick enough, as shown in the illustration on the packaging. Because paint trays are designed for rolling out paint into a thin layer and for using up as much as possible of what is poured into the trough, the teflon feature is useless for real-world application. I found I had to scrape the paint out of the bottom with a thumbnail, which over time will mar the teflon finish, which will eventually lead to the tray being even more useless. The claim of "no need for a tray liner" is true only if you want to waste time meticulously peeling--probably easier to wash the tray, as you would do with a cheaper, standard non-teflon tray.

Non stick coating works too good!!
The teflon coating works too good. I found that as you are painting, the paint in the tray begins to dry, especially the part where you roll out the excess paint. The problem is that this dry paint starts to peel off the tray onto your roller and then onto your wall, so that you start getting globs of semi dry paint on the wall. I had to try and scoops these globs off with a brush, set up a new roller and paint tray to finish the job. The paint does peel off the tray very easily but the mess that you end up with on the walls makes this tray a piece useless junk. Maybe you can use it to bake brownies in?

Dries paint too fast, not an easy cleanup
As other reviewers have mentioned, in the time it takes to paint your walls the paint in the tray has already started drying. When you do one coat it seems to be fine, as long as you work in a timely manner. When you come back for the second coat the paint has already started to dry in the tray, and you end up getting globs of paint on your roller and on the wall. When you let the paint dry before peeling it off, if it's not thick enough it comes off in little sections. Then you end up having to scrape the rest off with your finger, basically. If you leave it on too thick it takes forever to dry and when you think the layer has dried you go to pick it off and end up with a glop of wet paint on your hands. Also, as I can be a sloppy painter I get it over the side, and then it gets stuck in the little screws that hold the thing together and that doesn't come off. It will NOT peel off in one sheet, and i've used mine over and over and just dealt with the old dried paint crusted onto the tray. My last paint job I just gave up and bought a plastic liner for the tray, and it didn't fit right in it because it has kind of an awkward shape. So basically just save your money and buy a cheap disposable one. It's a nice concept but it'd make a better baking tray than anything else!