Check Out the "Paintrifuge"

[chrisinhouston]

I've been doing painting for most of my adult life and have no trouble cleaning the roller using a strong stream from my garden hose, the trick is to angle the roller so that the spray does not go back on you and make the water hit the edge of the roller and not the center. The roller spins faster and faster and you go back and forth and the centrifugal force pulls the paint out of the roller and leaves the knapp just fine. I then remove the roller from the handle and rinse the inside and the handle and hang them to dry. Of course living in the south makes this easier then up north in the winter time but it does work.

That being said, one of my first jobs was for a guy who was a real skinflint, not only with my pay but with the materials. He had me use a roller to apply contact adhesive for making up a Formica counter top and when I discarded the sticky roller he admonished me that
I should have used a gallon of lacquer thinner to get the roller clean! Some rollers are just meant to be thrown away!