Talked to an old timer at the supply house yesterday and he said something that stuck with me

I was grabbing a new brush at Mason's Supply in Akron when a guy who's been sweeping since the 70s told me I was cleaning my brushes wrong. He showed me how he taps them against a concrete floor after every job to knock out the fine soot. I had been using a wire brush to scrape them clean and it was wearing them down way faster. He said a brush like the one I had should last at least 5 years not 2. Has anyone else been ruining their brushes without knowing it?

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the_jennifer1mo ago

Funny enough, that tapping trick actually cracks some brushes if the ferrule isn't tight, so you're trading brush life for a different kind of damage nobody talks about.

wesley8011mo ago

Married a brush that way once, @the_jennifer... my bad.