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Another issue for avoiding repairs
For example, at higher latitudes, even a clean rain gutter can suddenly build up an ice dam in winter, forcing melt water.
Examples of home maintenance
That should be regularly forecast and budgeted include repainting or staining outdoor wood or metal, repainting masonry.
Periodic maintenance also falls under
These are inspections, adjustments, cleaning, or replacements that should be done regularly to ensure proper functioning.
Perhaps the most perplexing repairs
In today’s era of built-in obsolescence for many products, it is often more convenient to replace something rather than attempt.
Therefore, painters, architects, chemists and engineers agree
That the use of varnish sealing coats is not the proper procedure in the painting of plaster walls.
The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company has always recognized and maintained the correctness of the principle of oil base wall paints and oil base primers.
The application of paint on interior plaster surfaces has become increasingly difficult
Inferior plaster work and the tendency to rush painting on damp walls.
Uneven suction effects on poor walls may be generally counteracted by the use of varnish type priming coats – at the risk of cracking and peeling of later paint coats. A better looking job is often temporarily secured on non-uniform plaster, through the use of varnish base primers, but the prospect of future failures is always great.
The Painting of Interior Walls
Again, as with exterior painting, the preparation of the surface is of prime importance. Far too often this is neglected and results are disappointing.
Before starting to paint, wash or scrape off all calcimine, loose paint, grease and dirt. Fill (jracks with patching plaster and sand to a smooth surface. Touch up patched spots with first coater. Even though no spots or cracks need patching, wash the surface before painting. The work involved will be well worth while.
In attacking the problem from this angle, the fact was lost sight
Of that such a priming coat permitted most of the oil to be drawn into the porous wood, leaving only an oil poor pigment on the surface. This inelastic, oil-drained film became brittle and offered but little resistance to the elements.
The problem, then, was one of obtaining a primer that would not penetrate excessively, thus retaining sufficient elasticity to be durable and resist moisture.
The solution came from the development of Vitolized Oil in the Research Laboratories
A study of paint application problems under these changed
Circumstances brought out the importance of the Priming Coat. Prior to the discovery of Vitolized Oil, little or no attention was given to the part which the priming coat played in achieving satisfactory results.
The general practice had been to attempt to overcome the difficulties involved in exterior painting by providing a first coater that would penetrate deeply into the wood, the theory being that such extreme penetration would seal and satisfy the absorption.