Maybe I'm crazy but I live in an area with many historic properties and I've
seen some new paint jobs where the paint has the appearance of a leaded
paint (hard to describe - a dull metallic sheen, I guess). Is there
anything to this...is there some way to achieve this appearance or is it
purely coincidental?

Interior or exterior

Jason Rogers wrote:
Maybe I'm crazy but I live in an area with many historic properties
and I've seen some new paint jobs where the paint has the appearance
of a leaded paint (hard to describe - a dull metallic sheen, I
guess). Is there anything to this...is there some way to achieve this
appearance or is it purely coincidental?

I don't recall lead paint having a special look. The lead in it was
lead compounds, not metallic lead.

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"Jason Rogers" wrote in message
...
Maybe I'm crazy but I live in an area with many historic properties and
I've
seen some new paint jobs where the paint has the appearance of a leaded
paint (hard to describe - a dull metallic sheen, I guess). Is there
anything to this...is there some way to achieve this appearance or is it
purely coincidental?

Leaded paint has not been sold in this country for a number of years now.
I'm sure those historic homes may loaded with it from the past, but it is
not in the past twenty or so years that it was available. Leaded paint was
much nicer to work with though. You could get a high gloss and bright
white.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

"Jason Rogers" wrote in message
...
Maybe I'm crazy but I live in an area with many historic properties and
I've
seen some new paint jobs where the paint has the appearance of a leaded
paint (hard to describe - a dull metallic sheen, I guess). Is there
anything to this...is there some way to achieve this appearance or is it
purely coincidental?

Leaded paint has not been sold in this country for a number of years now.

Yeah, like about 30 or 40...

I'm sure those historic homes may loaded with it from the past, but it is
not in the past twenty or so years that it was available. Leaded paint was
much nicer to work with though. You could get a high gloss and bright
white.

Really very little difference, if any, in the painting properties at
all....it was simply a pigment choice that was the easiest/cheapest at
the time. The flow and sheen properties were/are nearly independent of
the coloration.

You can _still_ get a high gloss and bright white...just that high gloss
is more expensive to produce and doesn't appear to be as popular these
days...

Jason Rogers wrote:

Maybe I'm crazy but I live in an area with many historic properties and I've
seen some new paint jobs where the paint has the appearance of a leaded
paint (hard to describe - a dull metallic sheen, I guess). Is there
anything to this...is there some way to achieve this appearance or is it
purely coincidental?

I don't think you could tell a leaded vs an unleaded paint by visual
inspection in a blind test (one where you didn't know which was the
leaded sample a priori). The sheen is a function of what flatting
agents are used. There are some lines of paints make specifically for
reproduction use which attempt to match the appearance of early paints
as nearly as possible. If they are real historic reproductions that may
be the case they're using some specially formulated paints to achieve
the look w/o too much concern for budget.

Duane Bozarth wrote:

I don't think you could tell a leaded vs an unleaded paint by visual
inspection in a blind test

I'm not sure anyone can tell anything by "visual inspection" in a "blind
test".

Jason Rogers wrote:
Maybe I'm crazy but I live in an area with many historic properties and I've
seen some new paint jobs where the paint has the appearance of a leaded
paint (hard to describe - a dull metallic sheen, I guess). Is there
anything to this...is there some way to achieve this appearance or is it
purely coincidental?

Huh? Those of us who grew up with lead paint, the
kind that was banned, know that lead paint doesn't
have any distinctive look, and it certainly
doesn't have a metallic sheen. Don't have a clue
what you are talking about. Maybe someone painted
a house with an aluminum or metallic enamel.

Well, on second thought, lead paints tend to be
very opaque and the colors are often bright, but
many other oil paints achieve the same values.

According to Jason Rogers :
Maybe I'm crazy but I live in an area with many historic properties and I've
seen some new paint jobs where the paint has the appearance of a leaded
paint (hard to describe - a dull metallic sheen, I guess). Is there
anything to this...is there some way to achieve this appearance or is it
purely coincidental?

Older homes tend towards a certain look in paints - semi-gloss or gloss
oil paints - especially after a few successive paint jobs. It was simply
a matter of what style was popular at that time, and reproducing that style
again with newer paints.

Obviously, lead paint has been banned for quite some time, so a "new paint
job" won't have lead.

Seeing an _old_ paint job looking like that is somewhat more indicative of
the presence of lead, than, say, a flat paint of similar vintage. But
without testing you can't be sure, and of course "new paint jobs" won't
be lead-based no matter what they look like.
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It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

Lead paint can't be matched. I went thru this a few years ago.
They get close, but you can't polish it like the old stuff. It's over,
just like the old road asphault and good duct tape.
(Old rubber adhesive duct tape can still be had thou)

Dawn wrote the following:
responding to
http://www.homeownershub.com/mainten...ook-49798-.htm
Dawn wrote:

this_is_so_over_done wrote:



Lead paint can\'t be matched. I went thru this a few years ago.
They get close, but you can\'t polish it like the old stuff. It\'s
over,
just like the old road asphault and good duct tape.
(Old rubber adhesive duct tape can still be had thou)


Original message posted November 13, 2005

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