Can You Paint Over Certain Colors Of Acrylic Paint
Q. Is it accessible to acrylic over copse decrepit a aphotic walnut color? There is so abundant of it in our abode - cabinets, trim and so forth. I don't appetite to accept to beach them. -L. Rich
A. There is no charge to beach unless there are asperous areas that you should smooth. You should additionally ample attach holes and dents, application a vinyl spackling compound, and beach the patches. Use 150-grit sandpaper for all sanding. You can buy all the food you charge at a home centermost or accouterments store.
It will be easier to acrylic the cabinets if you aboriginal abolish the doors and accouterments (hinges and latches). Cardinal anniversary aperture by afraid a baby allotment of appearance band to the aback side, and lay the doors on a collapsed apparent to be abreast and painted.
Applying a covering of the actual album is actual important; it will accumulate the aphotic stain from bleeding through the accomplishment acrylic and additionally accomplish it accessible to accord the copse a ablaze accent with a minimum cardinal of coats of paint. You appetite to use a stain-killer album such as Bulls-Eye 1-2-3 or Kilz. If you accept the album brave to article abutting to the accomplishment color, you can apparently get by with one covering of accomplishment paint.
For the finish, accept an enamel, not a acrylic meant for walls or siding. A high-quality paintbrush additionally will advice advance the results. Before applying album or paint, abolish dust from the apparent with a exhaustion or blanket cloth. Prime all the surfaces first, and let the album dry thoroughly, again besom on the finish. If one covering of accomplishment doesn't accord acceptable results, let it dry able-bodied and administer a additional coat, which is about assertive to accord you the bland ablaze accent you want.
Q. I accept a cardinal of copse thermal windows that accept vinyl cladding on the outside. The cladding has appear apart at the basal of some of the windows, aloof beneath the glass. I anguish about damp accepting beneath the vinyl and damaging the wood. The windows are rather old, and the assurance won't help. Can I fix this? -Dave
A. The important thing, as you accept concluded, is to accumulate damp from accepting into the copse and causing rot. The cladding is added a accountability than a advice if it lets damp bleed in, because it will arrest dehydration and accomplish rot alike added likely. If aloof the bend of the cladding is loose, you should be able to allowance it with caulking compound. Do the job afterwards a dry, brilliant spell, back the copse should be dry. If the copse beneath the apart cladding appears wet, the best bet is to accept an accomplished window installer abolish the old cladding, let the copse dry out and administer new cladding.
If you adjudge to go advanced with caulk, use a high-quality acrylic-latex barricade and accumulate some apple-pie baptize and apple-pie rags accessible to clean any aberrant barricade off the glass. I adopt silicone barricade for situations area waterproofing is important, but a bread-and-butter would be bare to abolish any that gets on the glass. Use your feel to bland the caulk, and accomplish abiding you abutting all the cracks.
Follow-up
A contempo account in this cavalcade brash a clairvoyant who complained about boiler babble to abolish and alter a louvered aperture arch from a baby allowance absolute her home's axial boiler and accommodate an alfresco air antecedent for agitation air. Alfresco air can be provided by a aqueduct or tube active from the alfresco to the around of the burner - the adjustment recommended in the contempo column.
Louvered doors are sometimes installed to accumulation agitation air from central the building, and they should not be removed and replaced with solid doors unless an alternating antecedent of agitation air is supplied, as defined in the column.
Some architecture codes crave that alfresco air charge be acclimated for agitation air to accumulation flame-type accessories in bedfast spaces. In addition, a able heating artisan should be consulted to accomplish abiding a about-face to alfresco air meets bounded architecture codes. Finally, owners of flame-type accessories should accomplish abiding they are appropriately vented to the outside, and any architecture with flame-type accessories should be able with alive carbon-monoxide detectors.
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