Posts Tagged ‘paint’
Easy Painting-Shading Miniatures Using Polyurethane Stained Varnish as a Dip
The full guide to painting WW2 US infantry can be found on my blog @ 2paintminiatures.com
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How to Acid Stain Concrete Floors – Staining Step 2
How to stain concrete floors step-by-step demo shows you how to acid stain concrete. This is the 2nd of a 3 part series.
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How to Choose Product for treating garden furniture
Woodie’s DIY will show you how to Choose Product for treating garden furniture
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Stain and Polyurethane DIY
Stain and Polyurethane can have great results with a little now how, sand smooth and prep areas to be finished. Apply stain with brush and lint free cloth as shown in video (lint and dust is not your friend) once the stain dries you can apply your polyurethane (DO NOT SHAKE YOUR POLYURETHANE) it only adds bubbles, apply the polyurethane in thin coats, if it gets to heavy it will run, and to get out a run takes time and work. Look for more DO-IT-YOURSELF tips at wichitafixit.com
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How to Stain and Varnish an Interior Door
Woodie’s DIY will show you how to stain and varnish an interior door. This method is a great way to revitalise any wood in your house.
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MJH Home: How to Paint Diamonds on a Wooden Floor
How to paint a diamond pattern on a wooden floor. Watch Meg Stone from my Jewish Home as she transforms her carpeted Hallway into a wooden floor with a diamond patter. Meg decided to surprise her Husband by creating this beautiful feature at the entrance to their family home. Now, rather than hauling out the carpet cleaner every month, Meg can simply scrub her wooden painted floors with ease! ( To learn how to scrub painted wooden floors view my ‘How to Clean Painted Wooden Floors’ video on my channel) This video documents the way in which Meg transformed the entryway of her home which was carpet into wooden flooring with a painted diamond pattern. This project was inexpensive and very fun and for it’s size and effect required very little. Here’s a list of the products and supplies used: Sharp Stanley Knife Red DEvil Fluffy Filler Rust-Oleum Surface Primer Blue Gray and Oval Room Blue Floor Painted from Farrow & Ball Spirit Level Blue Chalk Good Quality Paint Brush To create a similar effect in your Hallway, you will need to give yourself a week or so as the process requires various stages to achieve a really great result. The wait is definitely worth it. Here’s a diary Meg made when she began transforming her entryway from carpet to wooden painted floors. With the basic research of finding the right pattern, deciding on the extent of wooden flooring and how to complete this project without her husband and the kids knowing, Meg created a timetable. This is how it worked …
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Is it better to strip paint from a wooden floor with a heat gun or a sander?
The entire floor of my room is painted black, but the paint is ugly and peeling. I want to see the beautiful hardwood floor underneath. Should I sand through the paint or strip it with a heat gun?
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how easy is it to break a nail polish bottle?
my cat really, really loves playing with nail polish bottles. she bats them around the floor and under and around furniture and she LOVES it. has a great time.
what are the chances she’s going to break the bottle and get paint and broken glass everywhere? i have painted my nails tons of times, dropped countless bottles and never broke one.
can i let her keep playing with the bottles or is one going to break one day and cause disaster?
has anyone ever broken one and how did it happen?
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what paint do i use to paint on polyurethane foam?
i want to make antenna balls, out of polyurethane foam stress balls. What kind of paint do I use that will not come off in the weather and sunlight? Nor crack or peel. Plus protect the breakdown of the balls surface coat that the sun does effect.
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All Decked Out
If the thought of DIY means you’re less likely to reach for a paintbrush than for a phone to get the handyman, then these podcasts have been designed especially for you. Giving step by step information, explained in a simple, no-nonsense way by TV presenters Jason Bradbury and Anna Ryder Richardson, these guides will give you all the information you need to get the job done well.
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Interior Furniture
If you’ve not much DIY experience, written lists of instructions can sometimes make a task seem more daunting. Twenty years ago, you’d have got your dad or best mate to give you the benefit of their experience with a few hints and tips — but these days, they’ll probably have got someone in as well! So, we’ve used these podcasts to get back to basics and just chat DIY-novices through what they need to know. Each one starts with a shopping list and is committed to being a jargon-free zone — just pop them on your iPod and be talked through the job as you’re doing it.
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Flooring
If you’ve not much DIY experience, written lists of instructions can sometimes make a task seem more daunting. Twenty years ago, you’d have got your dad or best mate to give you the benefit of their experience with a few hints and tips — but these days, they’ll probably have got someone in as well! So, we’ve used these podcasts to get back to basics and just chat DIY-novices through what they need to know. Each one starts with a shopping list and is committed to being a jargon-free zone — just pop them on your iPod and be talked through the job as you’re doing it.
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Do I need to remove paint from concrete before installing hardwood floor?
I am trying to install hardwood floors, but the person who gave me a quote for the job said I should remove some of the paint that apparently laned on the concrete when the house was being painted. Its not a very thick layer of paint, but it can be seen that some landed when they were spray-painting the entire house…..Do I really need to get rid of it?……If that paint becomes loose eventually, will it really affect the hardwood floor?
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Airstream Restoration – 07-1 Flooring
Classic Rides, 1970 Airstream Overlander Land Yacht Restoration Episode 7, Part 1 of 4 Cork Flooring
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Large Floor Cleaner
Demo of our Large Floor Cleaner