Green Toad Pivoting Paint Brush Review
April 21, 2011 by Sandy
An Eco-Friendly Pivoting Paintbrush!
Congrats to Karen @Karenmed409 for winning the giveaway! Random.org picked #54!
Painting walls of your home, is not a chore very many people enjoy. I know I sure don’t. I get sore, my hand cramps up from the paintbrushes or rollers and I actually broke my ankle painting one time – although that had nothing to do with the paintbrush. Hint: Don’t use a chair to stand on… it may tip. Just sayin….
I got the chance to review the Green Toad Pivoting Paint Brush last weekend when I painted my dining room. I used it for the trim and corners. I told them I didn’t want to review the roller because I was reviewing a different paint roller system, but I wish I had offered to try that too – just to see what it was like.
As you can see, the handle is bent! The ergonomic pivoting paint brush was designed with the help of physical therapists. Which I think is cool. So many people have issues like carpel tunnel or arthritis and something like painting can be really hard to do. I will tell you that as I was using my old traditional paint roller to do my dining room walls, my hand was cramping up like crazy. That is the reason I said I would have liked to have tried their paint roller with this handle – to see if it had the same effect. But I bet I wouldn’t have had the cramping.
Now… the other cool part about this brush. The pivoting part. The brush head turns 360-degrees and locks into eight different positions! You don’t have to do any fancy stuff, it just turns and kind of clicks and then you can tell when it is locked in place.
So…. let’s say you are painting around a light socket. (Ok… so I forgot to get more than picture of when I was actually painting, so I took most of these this morning and yes… I know the electrical socket cover comes off when you paint. But I do have video down a little further from when I painted)
Turn the brush head this direction to do a space like this.
Then to do underneath it, you can turn your brush head this way.
The rubber grips make it easy to hold and the built in finger grooves help to make it comfortable to hold. It is also very light and that makes a difference.
Yes.. this is the picture of when I was actually painting. Notice light socket off the wall, paint on the brush and on my hand! lol! You can see the natural finger grooves and a rubber place where your thumb naturally sits. There is a small black button underneath that you push to release the brush head. Then the black oval grips on the actual paint head help make it easy to turn the brush head when changing positions (especially if you have paint on your hands) Look at the flat edge of the brush – the black right by the bristles – that is a drip guard that helps any dripping you may have. I didn’t have any problems with any bristles coming out. I hate that when you get a paint brush and you have to pick the bristles off the wall that have fallen out of the brush. ewww…
(Update: I used these again this last week to paint my bedroom March 2012) and I had a terrible problem with bristles falling out. The one brush I was opened, but I do not think I had used it with any paint. The other brush I opened and it wasn’t as bad, but I still lost a few bristles out of that one.)
Now you can see it in action:
Now for the “green” part. It really is green! I mean it is environmentally friendly! All the plastic parts which include the handle, the brush, the brush heads, the bristles and most of the internal parts are treated with Earthgreen polymers. Evidently this makes them biodegradable. They can be recycled and they are even compostable! So how can you argue with that? I think that is great that the company went to the effort and extra step to make them “green”.
There are different size brush heads. The 1.5 and 2.5 inch tapered brushes, the 2 and 3 inch straight brushes and the 4, 6 and 9 inch rollers.
They are also have roller extension poles, paint pad attachments (I love those!) and earth-friendly paint trays in development! So this is only getting better.
I am extremely happy with the Green Toad pivoting paintbrush. I actually hid them from my husband and kids! They are going to be painting the shed out back, and I want to keep these nice to work on some other painting projects I am going to undertake soon.
What I liked:
1) Comfortable to hold
2) Easy to turn angle & change paint brush heads
3) Bristles didn’t fall out
4) Nice edge on the tapered brush. I could paint my ceiling edge without taping off.
5) The rubber grips were in the perfect place
6) Easy to clean up
7) Environmentally friendly
8) Priced right!
What I didn’t like:
1) I didn’t also ask for the paint roller
2) It would be fun in pink
3) I don’t know if there would be a time that I would want the handle to be able to be all the way straight like a traditional paintbrush or not.
To Enter to Win a Green Toad Pivoting Paint Brush system!
Go to the The Green Toad.net and look at the paintbrush on the main page. There are 8 highlighted green dots. Tell me what 2 features of the paintbrush are, according to those dots. You will be entering to win a system like in the last picture on this post. **Be sure to come back here and leave me your answer in your comment. Your e-mail has to either in your comment or on your profile.
FOR EXTRA CHANCES TO WIN:
**Each of these HAS to have a separate comment to win. The winner is picked using Random.org. It just goes the number of comments….not by what you say.
1) Stumble this post with a brief review – The button is the first one at very bottom of this post under where it says “Sharing is Caring” (For 5 extra chances to win! I have to see the review – leave separate posts)
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This contest will run until 11:59pm est on Monday, May 2, 2011 *THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED*
Any comment that comes in after the above time will be deleted. This is open to US mailing addresses only. One person per mailing address only. Winner will be chosen by Random.org
You will have 48 hours to reply to my e-mail if you are picked as the winner, or else I will go on to the next winning number.
I was given the above paint system to review. The pictures and videos and opinions are my own.
Be Sure to check out my other painting supply giveaway here that ends May 12, 2011
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The Green Toad paint brush has a heavy duty locking pin to firmly secure the painting head in place.
The Green Toad paint brush has a Brush Drip Guard to reduce messes.
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Ergononomic grip design reduces hand and wrist fatigue and Deluxe Contour Handle fits in any hand and has the feel and performance of a durable hand tool.
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The brush drip guard reduces mess and the quick release button makes switching brush attachments a snap.
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detachable brush heads & ergononomic grip design reduces hand
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Detachable brush heads function crisply and smoothly for quick color and size changes.
Deluxe Contour Handle fits in any hand and has the feel and performance of a durable hand tool.
lifetime warranty on handle and quick release button makes switching brush attachments a snap.
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The brush drip guard reduces mess and there’s a lifetime warranty on the handle.
brush drip guard reduces mess and the quick release button makes switching brush attachments a snap.
Two highlighted points are:
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2.Deluxe Contour Handle fits in any hand and has the feel and performance of a durable hand tool
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Two features of the brush are that it has a lifetime warranty on the handle, and it has a drip guard that reduces mess.
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1.Heavy-duty locking pin firmly secures painting head in place
2.Deluxe Contour Handle fits in any hand and has the feel and performance of a durable hand tool
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“Heavy duty locking pin firmly secures paint head in place” and “a drip guard that reduces mess”.
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Our products are biodegradable and compostable.Deluxe Contour Handle fits in any hand and has the feel and performance of a durable hand tool.
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Hey Sandy,
I’m not sure how StumbleUpon works ..but here is the link where I reviewed it:
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I have definitely been following you by email subscribed to the site a month ago i think:).. Have definitely enjoyed seeing your projects and gettting great advice:)!
I definitely Twitter-ed this. My screen name is :
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heavy duty locking pin, deluxe contour handle
The contest was over last May… but cool paint brush isn’t it? Thanks!