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Painting concrete porches and floors.

Posted by brian on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
  Recently I completed some work on a basement remodel.  Several of my friends and clients were really impressed by the oil finish I applied to the basement floors.  It certainly isn't the hardest painting project to undertake but I have some pointers that will make it easy.
  Any time you sheetrock dust is an inevitability.  Before you apply a drop of paint you need to vacuum vacuum vacuum.  Nest step is washing down floors the day before paint application.  Using some TSP isn't a terrible id...
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Common Painting Problems Chapter 2 - Getting reds to cover.

Posted by brian on Monday, September 7, 2009,
This week we tackled a kitchen remodel overseen by Jason Ring of Scene Construction.  The color of choice for the kitchen was a salmon red to replace the existing light yellow.



Red is a translucent color and getting it to cover without showing the underlying color or having the hue effected by it is easy to achieve by using a gray scale primer.  Sherwin Williams fan decks will indicate what scale primer on the back of the color as a P1 through P4.  These numbers determine how dark the underlyi...
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