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More stories about Paints

  • Lead-Safe Paint Removal

    Choosing the right tool can make a nasty job easier and safer.

  • Restoring a Standing-Seam Roof

    Properly maintained, this elastomeric coating can protect a metal roof indefinitely.

  • How to Hide Rough Drywall Finish Showing Through Paint

    Q: A recent customer wanted to do his own painting and used an airless sprayer to apply primer to the bare drywall. He then rolled on the finish paint, but now he's complaining that the surface is rough wherever the drywall finisher sanded. He is blaming the drywall contractor, but I'm not sure...

  • Ladder Helpers

    A few years ago, Werner began equipping many of its stepladders with a top cap designed to hold a variety of tools and paint containers.

  • Safecoat Naturals Nontoxic Paints

    Safecoat Naturals nontoxic paints are finishes made from - in the maker's words - only "natural earth-based plant and mineral components."

  • Leading on Lead: A Rhode Island Renovator Creates a Lead-Safe Shop

  • Cordless Sprayer

    The new ProShot one-quart sprayer — made by Graco for Sherwin-Williams — is powered by an 18-volt lithium-ion battery for easy portability.

  • For Lasting Paint

    Polymatrx is an elastomeric paint additive that can make an exterior paint job last 20 years or more, says maker Gulf Synthetics.

  • Sticky Edges

    3M’s latest masking tape, ScotchBlue Advanced, has a moisture-activated additive that reacts with the water in latex paint to better seal along the tape edge.

  • Better Bucket

    Bercom’s Handy Paint Pail offers a couple of advantages over painting right out of the can.