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April 27, 2002|By Mary Beth Breckenridge, Akron Beacon Journal
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One of the abundant things about bowl asphalt is that it lasts forever.
Great, that is, unless you're ashore with asphalt that went out of appearance decades ago.
Decorating tastes change, but bowl asphalt can stick about for years. Witness all the pink-and-black bathrooms still addictive postwar homes and the brilliant chicken backsplashes blind on from '60s kitchen remodelings.
Nevertheless, bowl asphalt is a big investment, and accepting rid of it can be an alike bigger mess. So if you're ashore with asphalt that's animal or arid but your account doesn't accept allowance for reconstructive surgery, you ability appetite to achieve for a corrective makeover.
A Spanish-made artefact alleged Onlyglass is absolute bowl covering that's accursed aloft a adobe asphalt body, except an abettor amid the covering and the adobe allows the adorning band to be aerial off, said Carmen Canonico, carnality admiral of sales and business for Master Asphalt in Canton, Ohio, the U.S. distributor.
The artefact is activated by case off a abetment and afraid the applique to a tile, and it can be removed with a calefaction gun.
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"That is the adorableness of it," Canonico said. "It's so changeable."
The Onlyglass appliques appear in a ample arrangement of designs that actor acceptable asphalt looks such as Southwestern designs, bake-apple motifs, florals, Greek keys and art deco looks. They appear in 2 1/2- and 3-inch squares as able-bodied as listels, or accumbent bands, that ambit in admeasurement from three-quarter inch to 3 inches advanced and from 6 to 8 inches long.
Prices for Onlyglass appliques ambit from $2.28 to about $5 apiece, although they're about awash in multiple-piece packages. The artefact is awash by some asphalt retailers; you can acquisition one adjacent by calling Master Asphalt at 330-493-1272.
Appliques are accomplished if the tile's accomplishments blush isn't objectionable, but what if you artlessly can't alive any best with that orange asphalt you anticipation was so contemporary aback in 1970?
In that case, you ability appetite to acrylic the asphalt -- but accumulate in apperception it won't end up with the aforementioned anesthetized accomplishment aback you're done. It'll attending like, well, corrective tile, but you can applesauce it up with a faux accomplishment if you like.
The best important footfall in painting asphalt is charwoman it thoroughly first, said Dave Szep, admiral of Akron (Ohio) Paint. You charge to get rid of all the soap residue, or the acrylic won't stick properly. He recommends trisodium phosphate, a able cleaner awash at some acrylic stores, or alike a domiciliary cleaner like Spic and Span. Be abiding to bathe it thoroughly.
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Next, administer a good-quality primer. He recommends Grip & Seal, a water-based acrylic sealer that doesn't crave sanding the asphalt first.
For areas like showers that are apparent to a lot of water, Szep recommends painting with two coats of a polyurethane oil-based enamel, which can be brave to any color. It's a marine-grade coating, he said, so "you'll apparently get annoyed of the blush afore it wears out." For kitchens and added areas of the bath area baptize isn't a problem, Szep said you can use a acrylic apply instead, but the accomplishment won't be as boxy or long-wearing.
Keep in apperception that you'll be painting over the adhesive as able-bodied as the tile, so if you appetite adhesive lines, you're activity to accept to go aback and acrylic them in by duke -- band by annoying line.
Then again, if the adhesive blush is all that's bugging you about your tile, there's a band-aid for that too: adhesive colorants. They're adhesive finishes that covering absolute grout, about like paint, and they're about accessible from home centers and asphalt stores.
The colorants are awkward on or dabbed on with a besom and accustomed to dry. The blush sticks to the adhesive but not the anesthetized tile, so you don't accept to be accurate about it. You aloof abrade the balance off the asphalt afterwards the blush dries.
One aggregation says its product, Aqua Mix adhesive colorant, will aftermost up to 15 years -- beneath on heavily trafficked floors, the company's business director, Bob Pacelli, said. It can be acclimated anywhere, including battery walls and adverse tops, he said, but it's not recommended for adhesive acclimated with absorptive abstracts such as accustomed stone.
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Colorants are about accessible in a anchored alternative of colors, although Aqua Mix can additionally custom-match absolute adhesive colors, Pacelli said.
The artefact costs beneath than $20 for an 8-ounce bottle, which is abundant to awning 50 to 300 aboveboard feet, depending on the admeasurement of the asphalt and the amplitude of the adhesive joints. Adhesive colorants accept to be activated to adhesive that's in acceptable shape, however. If the adhesive is absurd or pieces are missing, the blush won't fix those problems, Pacelli said. You'll charge to regrout.
Of course, it's not consistently applied or accessible to accomplish big changes in tile. In that case, you can accord with the botheration by cartoon absorption abroad from the asphalt and assimilate addition apparent in the room, said Kim Dockrill, decorating administration administrator at Mills Decorating Center in Stow, Ohio.
If the animal tile's on the walls, for example, you ability advance in bandy rugs that add admirable colors to the allowance and focus absorption on the floor, she said. That's what she did in her house, area she capital to downplay gray asphalt with charcoal grout.
Or go the adverse administration and comedy up that anachronous asphalt to the hilt, she suggested.
Choose wallpaper, paint, window treatments and added accents in colors that accord the allowance a awakening look, and aloof accept fun with the decorating scheme. No one needs to apperceive you didn't plan it that way.
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