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;Posted on 08/15/2016 7:19:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, August 15, 2016— whigmaleerie
;Googling it, it says that if you scrub a small area well with a mixture of household cleaner and water, than towel dry, you should be able to tell by soaking a q-tip with alcohol and rubbing it around on the surface. If the paint comes off its latex, if it doesn’t its oil based.
i think it’s pretty soft, because like i said, when xshub tried to peel the paint after leaving the stuff on, he gouged a bit and he wasn’t pressing hard at all. so i’m thinking light sanding, so it will still look white but i can see the grain through it? is that light enough? should i use a primer just to be safe, after sanding?
wow! that’s a great tip, thanks!
You are welcome, and good luck, I love turning free furniture into something pretty :)
If you can see the grain and the finish is smooth, a primer would be necessary for the top coat to adhere properly.
You could use a paint and primer one coat type paint like Rustoleum or any other national brand......
The notion that we own property is just another whigmaleerie foisted on a naive public by a sardonic government. Dispelled once a year when property taxes are paid.
if this goes well i have the feeling i am going to want to do more! it appeals to me too!
thanks, i think that’s what i will do. i did buy rustoleum but it doesn’t have the primer combined with it, so i would need to do separately.
I am loving the DIY advice on today's thread. It is making me want to break out some gloves and brushes!
Don’t forget to remove the shelves, if possible, and paint them separately, to avoid an unpainted ‘stripe’ on the inside cabinet..........
Stripping or re-painting, or just painting over depends most (first!) on what you want the final product to look like, then (second) on what the current paint is doing.
For example, you want a “perfect” varnish/hand-rubbed (stained) finish showing off the “raw wood” with its beuty. (Like an old cabinet or bookcase. Then, well yes, you need to strip off the old paint (all of the old paint!) then begin with the new stain, the new polyurethane (replaces varnish). ANd you would proably want three-four coats of the polyurethane, each spread on very thin and uniform.
OK, now assume you want a interior grade (bedroom or workroom) solid paint covering. The old paint is in good technical condition (not peeling or mildewy or torn up. It just dirty and the wrong color. Or rubbed through in a few spots so it looks ugly. In that case, clean it with a household cleaner (Windex-409-or whatever), rub & rinse thoroughly but quickly to get the dirt and soap film off, let it dry well, and just repaint. (You don’t want to paint over the wet surface.)
Stripping is needed only when you must remove all of the old the paint from all of the surface.
Sanding works on the surface of the old paint (wearing it off), then on the wood below the surface when the paint is rubbed through. So think of it only as best and simplest and safeest on larger, flat, square-sided panels. It also works when you sand not to remove paint, but to get a smooth surface (remove irregular paint areas or rough areas) to leave a smooth flat surface ready for the next complete color. Sanding IS WORK. A iron-shaped vibrating sander with the stick-on pads is MUCH safer that the heavier rolling sanders - those things will tear up wood and gouge grooves if you are not strong enough to maintain complete control. The rollers are faster though.
Stripping is not harder than sanding (certainly messier) and must be respected, but not feared. Sanding will get a lot a dust that you need to expect to vacuum. Stripping leaves a greasy-like gunk that should be allowed to fall on a disposable surface, then wrapped up and disposed of. When I have to strip (to leave a bare surface ready to stain), I prefer to use the water-soluable chemicals that are “sticky” for verticals and flats.
Safety? If you get the stripper on you, and you wash it off quickly, you might get a sun-burn like irriatation. Leave it on for a while? Yes, you will get burned. Always use your heavy gloves that go up to near your elbows, and remove them like a surgeon does (invert as you roll them off to trap the chemicals in the rolled up glove.
Stripping required only if you to remove the old paint completely, and don’t have access to a nice flat even smooth surface for a square pad sander or a iron-shape flat bottom sander. (Trim, curlicues, curved moldings, and carvings? Yes - They’ll need stripping.)
Yeah. I’m fearful of the repubbies becoming the ex-opposition party. Like their decline from the 1830’s into 1856, I’m whigmaleerie of losing everything for many years.
The polls are entirely rigged. Independent sources such as social media are showing Trump up by 20+. The DNC game plan is to dispirit the Trump vote. Do not be dismayed. Clinton may well be the biggest loser in the nation’s history.
Take it outside. Spray paint it. Slap a bunch of cute stickers all over it.
Done.
I am leery of whigmaleeries.
I have to with Badger here, strip it down first, because you never know how nice the wood is until you strip it. Good wood furniture is almost always going to look better stripped and stained than if you paint it. If it’s junk, it will still look better painted after you strip off the old stuff.
If you do strip it and then decided to paint it, use the primer first, because you want to seal the wood to waterproof it and keep it from absorbing the solvents in the paint. If you decide to just paint over the old paint, you shouldn’t need primer.
Black Lives Matter’s whigmaleerie
Whites are racist; cops are scary
When one kills a Black thug
Loot for justice, be smug
Feed the Commie commentary
always good to leave yourself a day after vaca to get back to normal before going back to work, if at all possible.
love it!! A+++++
Louis i will be the first to give you due credit if that happens, but i am more than a little skeptical. Many, many times we were saying oh the polls aren’t accurate and then we ended up losing. I cannot put my faith in social media sources. Hope you are right, but i doubt you are.
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