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Common Painting Problems - Chapter 3 Bleed through

Posted by brian on Friday, October 9, 2009,
How many times have you painted a new piece of wood trim, old cedar, water stains, grease or ink that only to see that same stain bleed right back through?  I've personally tested how many times it would take to paint a water stain with normal latex paint before it would fail to bleed through.  I stopped at fifteen!  Latex is unable to handle many common stains.

Follow the punch list below for solutions to the toughest bleed through issues.  

- Grease around the oven.  Step one is to scrub th...
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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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