I'm having the aluminum siding on my home painted next week, and was wondering what is the best type of roller to use. The siding has a coarse wood grain texture to it and I want to be sure the texture remains as defined as possible. I took a sample piece with me to Sherwin Williams yesterday to match the color, and they applied two coats with a paint brush. The color is pretty darn close if not exact, but the texture looks different because they used a dryer to speed cure the paint, which obviously didn't give it time for the brush strokes to settle. Anyway, is there an ideal type of roller to use for textured aluminum siding? I'm taking a guess that a lower nap or even a sponge type roller would be best. Not sure if the type of brush matters.

[left]We’re working on staining our kitchen floors. The 12 year old vinyl was gross. We pulled it up, removed the adhesive w a stand up concrete grinder and angle grinders, cleaned with Neutra-clean and then laid down two different colors of Kemiko concrete stain with all plastic pump sprayers, waited 8 hours and then neutralized. The results are so so. I think we need to add another color to get the kind of depth we’d like. I’m not 100% sure if we can just layer it right on top and if we do, what’s the best pattern to spray it in - just coat everything? Avoid the areas we want the other colors to come through? I want a softer transition between the colors and I’m wondering if wetting the floor a bit before we put the third color on will work. I have two pics. One is the color we like and the other is the color we currently have. Trying to figure out the best way to add them. Thanks in advance for taking the time to help out. If all else fails we’ll be putting tile down! [/left]