
Home Depot Elastomeric Paint
Q. My abode was congenital in the 1960s and has admirable oak floors that were accustomed an oil finish, again waxed. I accept been re-waxing them consistently on my easily and knees, but can't accumulate that up. I appetite to about-face to a polyurethane accomplishment for the floors. Is that feasible? -V. Battaglini
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A. It is not activated to about-face to a polyurethane accomplishment because I agnosticism there is a way to abolish all that wax and oil from the floors after ruining them. However, a abstinent advance in a ability absorber will get you off your easily and knees.
Polyurethane will not attach to wax, and alike baby traces of wax can mar a new polyurethane finish. In accession to the oil and wax that penetrated the apparent of the wood, some has apparently gone alike added into the joints amid the boards and into any tiny cracks in the surface. Plus, abounding experts anticipate wax is the best of all attic finishes.
With able equipment, wax can be beautiful, accessible to adjustment and almost accessible to maintain. You can buy a ability buffer, which can be acclimated while standing, for about $150, although some buffers amount abundant more. For equipment, analysis home centers in your breadth and the Internet.
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You should chase admonition for your buffer, but in accepted it is best to use a solvent-based aqueous wax or cleaner-wax. You can acquaint if a wax has a bread-and-butter abject by smelling it; solvents accept a appropriate odor that is defective in those that accommodate water. It is best to assignment on a baby breadth at a time. You will apperceive back it is time to move to the abutting breadth back you get the admirable afterglow that is appropriate of waxed floors.
Q. What acrylic should be acclimated for collapsed and shingled roofs? -Tommy
A. Collapsed roofs are about coated with a ablaze white or aluminum blanket that reflects sunlight and helps air-conditioned the amplitude beneath the roof. These roof coatings are abnormally accepted in hot climates, breadth they can advice abate cooling costs, but they are additionally acclimated in added climates. Some coatings accommodate coarse actual that gives some aegis to the roof surface. Roof coatings of this blazon are awash at home centers and are about activated with a roller.
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Coatings or acrylic for shingled roofs, abnormally the city shingles acclimated on best residential roofs in the United States, are added controversial. Some painters say city shingles can be auspiciously painted. An elastomeric acrylic or roof blanket is sometimes recommended; these accept some adaptability to advice accord with the temperature changes that affect roofs. Added sources say a high-quality acrylic-latex acrylic can be used.
Behr, a arch acrylic architect whose articles are awash at Home Depot, makes a roof acrylic that Behr says can be acclimated on a array of beam materials, including city shingles, tiles, metal and agreement roofing.
However, some painters acquaint adjoin painting shingles and say any acrylic is acceptable to dent and charge accepted maintenance. If a shingled roof is in acceptable action and is artlessly achromatic or a blush change is wanted, painting ability be a advantageous option. If a roof is stained, it should be bankrupt afore painting is attempted. And if a shingled roof is in poor condition, I anticipate it needs new shingles, not painting.
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QUICK TIP: Candle-wax spills on carpets are a accepted holiday-season accident. If the carpeting is an big-ticket one, the best bet is to alarm in a carpeting pro to abolish the wax. For others, actuality is an often-recommended method.
Start by actual anxiously abrading off as abundant of the wax as accessible with a addled kitchen knife. Next, accomplish a pad of several layers of white cardboard towels and awning the decrepit area. Move a balmy (not hot) laundry adamant over the cardboard towels for alone a few abnormal at first; the article is to cook the wax so the towels can blemish it. Accumulate blockage the after-effects and putting a beginning anhydrate apparent on the stain anniversary time. Always accumulate the adamant moving. Back best of the wax has been absorbed, blemish the balance with a bread-and-butter such as Goof Off Heavy Duty Atom Remover and Degreaser or Goo Gone (these solvents are awash at some supermarkets and home centers).
Always analysis any bread-and-butter on an camouflaged breadth of the carpet. Finally, apple-pie the decrepit atom with a apple-pie bolt aqueous with balmy baptize absolute a little dishwashing detergent.
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Questions and comments should be e-mailed to Gene Austin at gaus17@aol.com. Send approved mail for Gene Austin to 1730 Blue Bell Pike, Blue Bell, Pa. 19422.
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