Wash Twice & Dry Upright: Brush Cleaning Tips for Latex House Paint (Interior and Exterior) for muralists and people who are painting their rooms or houses: I use dish soap to clean my brushes and want to share what I’ve been doing over the years because it seems to be working and I rarely have to buy new ones! I’ve also seen people throw out perfectly good brushes after only using them once just because they don’t know that they can clean them. I wash my brushes in the sink or the bathtub where the stream of water is stronger which makes cleaning faster. First I put on gloves and rinse the paint out of them one at a time until the water runs pretty clear, then I wash them each with soap one at a time. I usually go from largest to smallest because the biggest ones take longer so then as I clean each one the process goes progressively faster. I pour dish soap on the brush and “shampoo” it with my hand then also smash the brush into the base of the sink quickly and repeatedly to ease the color out from the base of the bristles. Then I rinse it out with water and REPEAT the soap-smash-rinse process again on the same brush. When I’m done, I dry them outside on a piece of plastic to protect the ground from any paint water and I face the bristles toward the sky so any residual paint dries within the base of the brush and doesn’t ruin the tips. They’ll be dry in a day or two and voila! You can use them again. Should I make a reel about this and about how I dispose of my paint water? Let me know if you’d be interested to see!