Identify Paint Type with Tru-Swipes

all right the first product we're going to talk about today is true swipes and this is a product created by chad flood and he's in beautiful san diego california has a business a painting business called local san diego painting company and he's created the true swipes and his company's called um this company is called trugreen products so he created this wipe and this is it's a very simple little wipe and what this thing does is it tells you whether you have oil-based or water-based paints and it's very important to know that what's on your surface because you've got to prep properly if this is oil-based paint latex paints does not stick on it very well you do need to sand and prime or your latex paint can just peel right off that surface it can be a big nightmare and so how do you tell whether this is latex or oil based paint this simple little wipe does this it's got denatured alcohol in it it's got some other chemicals in it and i think one of them is aloe vera so it doesn't dry out your hands but you just take this wipe all you got to do is swirl it on here and it happens like really fast if this is latex paint you're going to have paint on the wipe and it's probably going to be hard to see because that's white on a white wipe right here but there's paint on that wipe and it happened that fast and so now i know this is latex based paint and i know that i don't have to do nearly the prep work and i have to be nearly as concerned because it's not oil-based paint if it was oil-based paint when i'm looking at this wipe i can hold it up in the light and i can see paint all over this thing if it was oil-based paint all it's going to literally do is clean the surface and there's not going to be any paint on this wipe at all and he's got wipes