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Soap & water cleanup with oil based paint.
This is a new one for me. I've prepped my deck & I'm using Wolman
Finish & Preservative to reseal it. The can says it's oil based. The warning says it contains mineral spirits. The cleanup instructions says wet brushes may be cleaned with soap & water or mineral spirits. Tacky or dry spills must be cleaned with mineral spirits. The product is clear & not milky. I dipped a just used brush in plain water & everything gummed up. I added a squirt of liquid soap to the pail, swished it a few times, the gummed up particles disolved and the brush was almost clean! Easiest cleanup I've ever seen. All my life I've been told water & oil are incompatable. Is this something new? If so, I darn sure like it. Red |
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Soap & water cleanup with oil based paint.
On Sep 11, 9:25*am, Norminn wrote:
Red wrote: This is a new one for me. I've prepped my deck & I'm using Wolman Finish & Preservative to reseal it. *The can says it's oil based. *The warning says it contains mineral spirits. *The cleanup instructions says wet brushes may be cleaned with soap & water or mineral spirits. Tacky or dry spills must be cleaned with mineral spirits. The product is clear & not milky. I dipped a just used brush in plain water & everything gummed up. I added a squirt of liquid soap to the pail, swished it a few times, the gummed up particles disolved and the brush was almost clean! *Easiest cleanup I've ever seen. All my life I've been told water & oil are incompatable. *Is this something new? *If so, I darn sure like it. The cleanup probably should have read to use mineral spirits first, then "soap and water". *My usual procedure is just that ... full strength Dawn really cuts into grease, so if enough is used it should eventually take out all the oil-based gook. *Just much easier to use solvent first. *Perhaps the switch is because of less VOC or whatever they are in "oil based" paint. |
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