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What are the issues with using sour smelling paint?
My husband touched up the paint in our bedroom. The smell was rancid, like sour milk. I cannot believe he used the paint that went bad. I have a horrible headache and watery eyes, an obvious ...
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How do I prepare this exterior concrete wall for paint?
I have a an exterior concrete wall that had some loose paint and started scraping away. The paint in some sections was so loose that I went all the way to the bare concrete, peeling away over 6 layers ...
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How to repaint an antique exterior door?
I am about to repaint my 100 year old front door, from white to black. I have reviewed the existing Q&A on the site, but none seem to specifically cover my issues. The door
has been previously ...
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What type of paint and how many coats should be used to paint a radiator?
We've moved into a new house with a fairly incompatible sense of interior design. To illustrate one room in particular, the walls are orange, the floor to ceiling shelves are orange, the fireplace ...
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How can I remove small paint specks from a wooden floor?
The painters I had hired (and quickly fired) to repaint my apartment spilled some paint (little specks and spots) on the wooden floors and let it dry off without cleaning it.
The paint was "glycéro", ...
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Paint got ripped off when trying to remove double-sided foam tape
I was trying to remove a picture frame which was adhered to the wall with some double-sided foam tape.
Unfortunately, the foam tape was so sticky and ripped some of the paint off the wall (see ...
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What is your top tip for painting?
Simple really - add your best tips for painting (a room, that is). Ideally one tip per answer for ease of voting.
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How to quickly fix botched latex paint area on exterior door?
I need some help here. We recently primed and painted an exterior wood door. The second coat of latex paint was still semi-wet and I accidentally touched an area of the door with my fingertips which ...
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How do I prepare concrete walls before applying water-dispersion paint?
I had a concrete wall painted with white water-dispersion paint. Every here and there the old paint was chipped and dark gray bare concrete could be seen.
I got a can of white water-dispersion paint ...
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Why don't the textures of drywall patches match the room?
I recently remodeled a bedroom and installed new drywall. We painted the walls and ceiling with flat paint (since this is in the master bedroom and it is supposed to "hide" imprefections better than ...
