Before the inception of the BruKon brush container, a tool created for the cleaning and storage of paint brushes, I owned and managed “Exclusive Painting Service” or E.P.S as I liked to call it.

E.P.S. had as many as 13 painters working at the same time on multiple overlapping jobs in different areas. We painted the inside and outside of domestic homes as well as small to medium commercial properties. I remember well the time we “coated” the original & well-known Mushroom Records building (an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne 1972 and where the famed Kylie Minogue was discovered), along with a number of exclusive face lifts on National Trust buildings and much loved stately homes. These needed specialised finishes including the painting of intricately colored plaster cornices, floral roses and the like.

As a young business owner inspecting my monthly costs I became aware of the continuous outlay for replacement paint brushes. It seemed that the painters needed replacement paint brushes costing around $30 per brush x 4 brushes (x 13 guys!) for every medium sized job they started. It just seemed too often for my liking and I wanted to reduce these excessive overheads. I was also keenly aware that my business was consuming way too many litres of mineral turps and other cleaning fluids each month. I didn’t mind the need to replace paint brushes that were in continuous daily use nor to re stock turps and other cleaning fluids, but the system seemed unnecessarily wasteful to me.

My business was also getting the occasional complaints from customers about paint residue left around drain areas and on plants. This really seemed to get customers annoyed at times, and who can blame them?

I knew there had to be a better way to control not only the waste factors attached to the painting industry (in those days I saw it as efficiency, but these days its in the sphere of the broader concept of sustainability) as well as customers’ annoyance with paint & cleaning pollutants. I thought I could: save paint brushes too by clever maintenance during and after job completion; invent the perfect way to take care of a brush; reduce consumable materials; minimize cleanup mess at customers’ sites; and most importantly save on the time that was allocated for clean up at the end of each painting day.

The idea for the BruKon brush container was born and after a number of prototype designs were trialed I perfected the container which is available today. I am happy to offer painters of all persuasions a modestly priced product that is of genuine benefit to both themselves and our precious environment.

Born out of a need, the BruKon brush container is designed to cater for the professional master painter, tradesman, and handyman, as well as being modestly prices so that its affordable for D.I.Y. painters & the general public.