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gloss paint not drying
I glossed the kitchen and bathroom woodwork around the windows
yesterday. The kitchen window is fine but 24hrs later the bathroom window is still tacky. What's causing this and do I simply wait for an extended period of time for it to dry? Thanks |
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neil leslie wrote:
I glossed the kitchen and bathroom woodwork around the windows yesterday. The kitchen window is fine but 24hrs later the bathroom window is still tacky. What's causing this and do I simply wait for an extended period of time for it to dry? Thanks Cheap paint or unsound surface, i.e grease. where the kitchen is concerend a thorough degreasing agent is required. -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
neil leslie wrote: I glossed the kitchen and bathroom woodwork around the windows yesterday. The kitchen window is fine but 24hrs later the bathroom window is still tacky. What's causing this and do I simply wait for an extended period of time for it to dry? Cheap paint or unsound surface, i.e grease. where the kitchen is concerend a thorough degreasing agent is required. Possibly humidity? Leave the window open if it's not raining. |
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hehehehe reminds me of when some one nicked 5 x 2.5 litre tins of paint from
the back of my pickup . labelled only as white professional high gloss paint .. i still have fond thoughts of some poor git saying to his wife months down the line "the paint will be dry soon " no it bloody well wont, not 2 part paint without the hardener "Chris Bacon" wrote in message ... The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote: neil leslie wrote: I glossed the kitchen and bathroom woodwork around the windows yesterday. The kitchen window is fine but 24hrs later the bathroom window is still tacky. What's causing this and do I simply wait for an extended period of time for it to dry? Cheap paint or unsound surface, i.e grease. where the kitchen is concerend a thorough degreasing agent is required. Possibly humidity? Leave the window open if it's not raining. |
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On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:25:15 +0100, neil leslie
wrote: I glossed the kitchen and bathroom woodwork around the windows yesterday. The kitchen window is fine but 24hrs later the bathroom window is still tacky. What's causing this and do I simply wait for an extended period of time for it to dry? Was it an old tin of paint? The driers, which are organometallic compounds to catalyse the crosslinking of the paint resins have a habit of going off with time. John Schmitt -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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John Schmitt wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:25:15 +0100, neil leslie wrote: I glossed the kitchen and bathroom woodwork around the windows yesterday. The kitchen window is fine but 24hrs later the bathroom window is still tacky. What's causing this and do I simply wait for an extended period of time for it to dry? Was it an old tin of paint? The driers, which are organometallic compounds to catalyse the crosslinking of the paint resins have a habit of going off with time. John Schmitt If the kitchen window dried ok but the bathroom window is still tacky I'd of thought the paint was not old and the bathroom window needed a good clean before applying the paint. Possible there is water/condensation remains have got into the wood behind the old paint, hence it going tacky. Puts paid to your rather over zealous assumption. -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:58:43 +0100, The3rd Earl Of Derby
wrote: Possible there is water/condensation remains have got into the wood behind the old paint, hence it going tacky. It has of course occurred to you that the tackiness is only evident because objects have put onto the shelf and the partly-cured paint has for that reason revealed a tacky nature? The only reason that water can interfere with the curing of an oxidatively crosslinking paint is by immersion, which physically debars the oxygen. Puts paid to your rather over zealous assumption. Three years in the industry of formulating paints, adhesives and the like, I would describe as experience rather than assumption. John Schmitt -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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John Schmitt wrote:
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:58:43 +0100, The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote: Possible there is water/condensation remains have got into the wood behind the old paint, hence it going tacky. It has of course occurred to you that the tackiness is only evident because objects have put onto the shelf and the partly-cured paint has for that reason revealed a tacky nature? The only reason that water can interfere with the curing of an oxidatively crosslinking paint is by immersion, which physically debars the oxygen. Puts paid to your rather over zealous assumption. Three years in the industry of formulating paints, adhesives and the like, I would describe as experience rather than assumption. John Schmitt Now where was it I was reading the other day about someone who had 5 tins of 2-pot paint stolen from his truck - but not the hardener? Andy |
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The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
[ snip ] Puts paid to your rather over zealous assumption. You are supposed to be blinded by science. |
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