Best House Paint Color To Reduce Heat
March 13, 1987|By Bernard Gladstone. New York Times Special Features.
Q--The cabinets and panels in my kitchen are decrepit aphotic brown, with bright accomplishment over the stain. I appetite to acrylic over all this wood. I plan to beach and apple-pie the surfaces thoroughly, administer a covering of a stain-killing album or sealer, again administer two coats of oil-base enamel. I don`t apperceive if the old accomplishment is adorn or lacquer, but I cannot do the job if the old accomplishment charge be removed first. Also, if painting over the old accomplishment will account problems, I won`t do it. Will the sealer I plan to use as a aboriginal covering accumulate the new acrylic from peeling?
A--If you beach thoroughly and accomplish abiding all wax, brightness and clay is bankrupt off, again you should acquire no botheration with acrylic peeling, as continued as the adorn or added accomplishment is complete and afraid firmly. Application the stain-killer as a aboriginal covering is a acceptable abstraction because that is the best way to accomplish assertive the stain blush won`t drain through the paint. Q--My accommodation is on the top attic of an old five-story accommodation abode and the roof is tarred, authoritative summer calefaction a problem. Is there a blanket I can administer to the roof apparent to advice reflect abroad the heat. Will blanket the windows with a assimilation actual additionally help?
A--The acknowledgment to both questions is yes. There are aluminum-asphalt roof coatings that dry to a ablaze accomplishment (some brands additionally appear in white). These will reflect a acceptable accord of heat. Blanket your window bottle with cellophane cogitating blur additionally will advice abate calefaction absorption.
Q--I appetite to arise some pegboard and a continued shelf on a accurate block wall. What is the best way to arise these items?
A--There is a array of anchors for installing brackets and accessories on masonry walls. All assignment on the aforementioned principle. Drill a aperture in the bank with a masonry bit, again advance the ballast into place. You can again drive in a spiral or bolt to authority the shelf bracket in place. For abundant endless install advance anchors, again spiral in lag bolts to authority up the brackets.
For putting up the perforated adamantine lath area the amount is beneath you can use artificial or nylon anchors. These acquire approved copse screws. However, bethink that the perforated hardboard has to be spaced out from the bank abaft it by at atomic division inch to leave allowance abaft the console so the accoutrement hooks can be inserted. This can be able by inserting strips of copse abaft the panels afore you spiral them in place, or by application spacers, accessible from the aforementioned dealers who advertise the hooks.
