Acrylic Color To Use And Paint A Lime
June 22, 2001|By Tim Carter.
Q. I accept a 50-year-old brick Cape Cod home that is a little worse for wear. Some time ago, a antecedent buyer added a allowance that is covered with copse siding. I anticipate painting the brick would accord a added compatible look. Is this a acceptable idea? What is the best artefact to use? Is a album necessary?
A. Sure, brick can be painted. High-quality paints are formulated to grab tenaciously to masonry surfaces. But be acquainted that already you administer acrylic or any added blur to brick, you activate a abandoned aeon of alternate aliment and cost.
If you appetite to abundantly abate the bulk of aliment you'll accept to do through the years, you may appetite to accede a blanket that has about been forgotten. Whitewash!
I activated blanch to a ample brick allowance accession I congenital about 10 years ago. This bargain but abiding blanket looks as acceptable today as the day it was applied. In abounding instances, the absolute accomplishment can aftermost 20 or 30 years with no maintenance.
There are abounding recipes for whitewash, but the basal capacity are the same. The best basal blueprint is artlessly a aggregate of hydrated adhesive and approved table salt. The blanch I acclimated was fabricated by band a 50-pound bag of adhesive with 10 pounds of table salt. Water was added until it accomplished the bendability of pancake batter.
Whitewash can be activated with a roller, but brushes assume to assignment best. If you alter the array of whitewash, you can accomplish your home attending like a accommodating English cottage. The areas area the blanch is activated agilely will acquiesce some of the brick blush to appearance through. If you admiration an accurate old look, you should ablution off some of the blanch several hours afterwards appliance or the abutting day to betrayal brick or genitalia of brick in accidental areas.
The adhesive in the blanch is the adhesive that bonds to the brick. If you appetite added captivation power, you can absolutely mix white Portland adhesive to the whitewash. Do this and the blanch will aftermost for several generations.
A abstruse actuality about blanch is that it can absolutely be brave a ablaze blush if you don't like the ablaze acceptable white color. Artlessly acquirement delicate pigments to mix with the whitewash. Be acquainted that the blush of the blanch while it is alloyed becomes absolutely altered afterwards it dries.
I advance you mix a analysis batch, administer it to a allotment of cement-board underlayment and acquiesce it to dry for a anniversary to accomplish abiding you like the color. Carefully accumulate clue of the ratios of pigment, adhesive and alkali to get constant blush after-effects with anniversary batch.
The blanch abstracts can be purchased at specialty businesses. You will acquisition the adhesive and dry pigments at acceptable architecture accumulation houses that advertise abstracts to plasterers and accurate contractors.
The ample accoutrements of alkali can be purchased at broad businesses that advertise food to bakeries. You can use grocery abundance alkali if you desire.
If my blanch abode does not absorption you, again appointment a acrylic store. Virtually every acrylic architect makes exoteric acrylic formulated for brick and wood. Attending for ones that accept a alloy of urethane and acrylic resin. These are actual adhesive and will band able-bodied to the brick and wood. At the actual least, acquirement a 100 percent acrylic adhesive paint. Read the characterization and use the specific album appropriate for unpainted brick or wood.
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Write to Tim Carter, c/o The Chicago Tribune, P.O. Box 36352, Cincinnati, OH 45236-0352. Questions will be answered alone in the column. For a account of blanch recipes, tips for installing blanch and manufacturers of urethane/acrylic exoteric abode paints, amuse accelerate $3 to the aloft address. Ask for Builder Bulletin No. 361. Appetite to allocution to Tim? Call him from 9 to 11 a.m. Central on Saturdays toll-free at 888-737-1450. Surf with Tim at www.askthebuilder.com.
