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| Wednesday, September 10 | | · | Garden Sprayer for Staining a Log Home |
| Tuesday, August 07 | | · | HVLP (high volume low pressure) |
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| Wednesday, June 27 | | · | How much do I thin my paint? |
| Sunday, January 21 | | · | Caulking Tips |
| Thursday, November 16 | | · | Benjamin Moore Aura Paint, Prince George, BC Canada |
| Friday, October 27 | | · | testing colors on walls before painting |
| Thursday, October 12 | | · | How high to hang pictures or art work? |
| Wednesday, September 13 | | · | Painting on HGTV - show us how to paint like a pro |
| · | Buying or Building a new home in Prince George? |
| Friday, August 18 | | · | Painting Dark Colours ? |
| Sunday, August 06 | | · | Choosing Colours |
| · | Fast & Cheap Painting |
| Saturday, August 05 | | · | Prince George - New Home Construction |
| Wednesday, May 10 | | · | Painting Bathrooms (around toilets) |
| Tuesday, April 18 | | · | Painting Fiberglass Doors |
| Monday, April 17 | | · | Using Fans to Clean Dust & Paint |
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| Saturday, January 28 | | · | My Paint is lumpy, what do I do? |
| Tuesday, January 24 | | · | High End Painting in Prince George |
| Wednesday, January 04 | | · | Removing Sikkens |
| Tuesday, January 03 | | · | Drywall |
| Monday, January 02 | | · | Cedar/Pine Walls - T&G Staining & Finishing |
| Sunday, January 01 | | · | Wallpaper Removal - Painting Over Wallpaper |
| Sunday, December 18 | | · | recommended sundries (paint tools) |
| Monday, November 14 | | · | Benjamin Moore Painting & Decorating |
| · | Choosing a Painter |
| Wednesday, November 09 | | · | Painters Equipment List |
| · | Painting Baseboards With Class |
| Tuesday, November 08 | | · | Painting Kitchen Cabinets |
| Monday, November 07 | | · | Painting Crown Moldings |
| · | Painting Baseboards with Production |
| Saturday, November 05 | | · | Contractors Grade Verses Top Line Paint |
| Sunday, October 30 | | · | About Chris... |
| Saturday, October 29 | | · | Painting Costs |
| · | Painting Trim |
| Friday, September 23 | | · | Painting Windows With Class |
| Wednesday, September 21 | | · | West Vancouver Benjamin Moore Painter |
| · | Abbotsford Benjamin Moore Painter |
| Friday, September 02 | | · | Painting Eagle Mountain Homes in Abbotsford BC. |
| Saturday, July 23 | | · | Cedar Log Finishing with TimberPro UV - The Manitoba Project |
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Finishing Terms
- Acrylic - A family of synthetic resins made from acrylic acids.
- Adhesion - The ability of one material to stick to another.
- Alkyd - A family of synthetic resins made from organic acids, combined with oils and alcohols.
- Alligatoring - A reference to a certain failure in paint that looks similar to an alligator hide. Also known as checking.
- Binder - An ingredient or blend of ingredients in stain that holds the pigment particles together.
- Bleeding - A reaction in the stain or dye that causes the pigment to rise to the surface of the wood.
- Blushing - Trapped solvent or moisture in the finish that gives
a white/grey cloud look to the coating. It can appear in spots or
across the entire piece.
- Bridge - The ability of the coating to dry over a crack or void in the wood.
- Bubbles - The formation of air bubbles in the top of the finish
- Catalyst - An agent that is added to finish that causes a
reaction in the coating. This reaction causes the finish to be more
durable than without the catalyst.
- Checking - Small cracks or lines in the finish. Also known as alligatoring.
- Cold Checks - The cracking of a finish due to exposure to cold
temperatures.Usually exposure happens before the finish has completely
cured.
- Craters - The appearance of small holes or depressions in the finish. Also known as fisheyes.
- Crazing - Very fine lines or crystalline patterns in the finish usually caused by too much catalyst.
- Cross linking - The molecular reaction in a finish from adding
catalyst that causes the finish to harden more than without added
catalyst.
- Distressing - Intentionally marking, gouging or scratching a finish to give the piece an antique look.
- Dye - A type of color that soaks into the fibers of the wood
instead of being left on top like pigment. Commonly used to evenly
color wood before staining.
- Filler - A very heavy bodied, slow drying pigment used to fill in grain and create a flat, smooth surface to topcoat.
- Fish Eye - A small crater or depression in the finish. Often caused by silicone or oil contamination.
- Flatting Paste - An additive used to reduce the sheen or gloss of a finish.
- Flash Point - The temperature at which a finish will ignite when exposed to a flame.
- Flow-out - The ability of a liquid to level itself as it dries.
- Ford Cup - A brand of viscosity cup.
- Glazes - Slow setting heavy bodied pigment stains commonly used to accent grain or for other color accents like antiquing.
- Gloss - The sheen or reflectivity of a coating.
- HAPS - (Hazardous Air Pollutants Incompatibility) - The inability of one finish product to work with another product.
- Lacquer - A generic term for finishes using nitrocellulose as a main ingredient.
- Lifting - The separation of one coat from another often seen as "alligatoring" or checking".
- Mar - A scratch or rub mark on the finish.
- Mar Resistance - The ability of a finish to resist scratch or rub marks.
- Mil - One thousandth of an inch. 0.001.
- N.G.R. - (Non-Grain-Raising) - Usually refers to certain stains that do not raise the fiber of the wood when applied.
- Nitrocellulose - Lacquer's main ingredient. A very flammable material that has a tendency to yellow with exposure to sunlight.
- Opaque - The opposite of transparent. The hiding quality of a pigmented coating.
- Orange Peel - A rough finish surface reminiscent of an orange peel's texture.
- Pigment - The raw ground colorant used to give a stain its tone.
- Pinholes - Small holes in a finish.
- Primer - A specialized coating made for application to raw wood as a first step in a finishing process.
- Precats - A finish that arrives already catalyzed from the manufacturer.
- Reducer - Thinner.
- Sags - A ripple in the coating caused by excessive millage when sprayed. Usually seen on vertical surfaces.
- Sealer - An undercoat of finish who's function is to stop
further absorption of successive coats into the wood, thus helping the
successive coats to level.
- Stearate - An additive to the coating or to sandpaper that makes it sand easier.
- Substrate - The material or product to be coated.
- Toner - A pigmented sealer or topcoat reduction that is used to
color certain areas of the wood over the existing stain, giving a
uniform look to the stain.
- Topcoat - The final finish coat, usually a specific finish
product designed to give better flow out and durability than the sealer
coat.
- VHAPS - Volatile Hazardous Air Pollutants.
- Viscosity - The thickness of a coating in its liquid state.
- Viscosity Cup - A small cup used to measure the thickness of a coating.
- V.O.C. - (Volatile Organic Compound) - The solvent ingredients in a finish.
- Washcoat - A reduced finish that is applied over raw wood to
reduce stain penetration, or over stains and fillers to promote
adhesion of the next coat.
- Waterbase - A coating that uses water as the main vehicle for carrying the resins of a finish.
- Water White - A high grade of lacquer that shows very little amber tone when applied.
- Zahn Cup - A brand of viscosity cup.
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| | Dr Best Posted: | Dear Chris:
We just want to thank you so much for your superb paint job that you completed in the interior of our home. We have had various painters over the years do work for us, and no one has even come close to the professional work that you demonstrated. Your ceiling/wall interface is flawless; the walls are smooth due to your meticulous preparation work;
there was no paint splashed on cupboards or floors; the various colours and designs requested by our daughters for their rooms were brushed and rolled like an artist. You offered wondeful painting/colour/paint brand suggestions, without being too pushy. You were consistently punctual and delivered what you promised! What more can we say - You are a real pro with a pleasant personality and an accomodating smile! We will be calling you again and will highly recommend you to others! Already people have asked us, "Who did your excellent paint job?"
Gratefully yours,
Dr. Dale Best
North Vancouver |
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