Home Restoration: Paint and aging

When you talk about painting in home restoration you are, without a shadow of a doubt, talking about one of the most delicate parts of the whole process. This is because there is a series of factors you need to take into consideration when you start painting.

First and foremost you need to select your paint carefully (remember, price is not the sole thing to define the best paint for the job), you might be asking why since normally a painting contractor would tell you to go and buy the most expensive paint, well for a start there is a very important thing you need to take into consideration when it comes to paint. Aging. This is process in which, as time goes by, painting remains covering the surface without damaging it. Not all paints can achieve this and not all paints are suitable for it.

That´s why you need to check not just the price, but also the most important details, meaning the surfaces in which a determined paint has been used on and how it works on it, specially over time. This is very important because it will help you choose the paint that it’s best for the surface in which you are going to apply it.

Also you need to be very careful with the form you are going to use to apply it, not all paints are good to be applied with rollers or spray guns. Also, and this is very important, if you are going to thin the paint (with water or solvent) you need to be well aware of the measurements you are going to use in terms of amount of paint vrs amount of water/solvent. A paint too thin will not cover well and least of all, age well over time.

If you are going to use rollers you need to be very careful when you thin the paint, a paint to thin will likely spill all over and result in unnecessary wastes.

All in all, in all your home restoration projects, when it comes to painting remember, price is not all, surface and aging are the real keys for a successful paint job.