Composition and Product Alternatives

extenders. So, what these attitudes actually are, this LA latex um M1 latex uh extender or X XIM latex extenders, what these things are, they're typically propylene glycols. And that's what you're actually adding to the paint, which is a flowleing additive that you just pour right in the paint. And that's what this actual agent right here is just propyline glycol. So, this is a product, the M1 and the XIM we use, these are actually for latex paints. You can get flow additives like penetrol for oilbased products, but typically oil-based products dry extremely extremely slow and so they they flow out and level really well and you don't actually need any additives. It's the water-based paints. The technology now they're drying extremely fast. And we use on our exterior repaints, we use a product from Shure Whims called Resilience or Emerald. And those paints literally dry in about 15 minutes. And when you're brushing, say a door jam around an exterior door and you're in the sun, that paint is drying extremely fast and coagulating on your brush. And that's where latex extender uh becomes really helpful and important. So you'll add the latex extender in there. It's going to slow down the dry time. Therefore, it's actually going to flow and level so your um your door jam, exterior door jamb won't show those brush strokes as well. So there's two of them we use. We use the M1. Uh we actually use this now. I used to use XIM a lot, but they don't carry it in the paint store that I purchased it from. They carry the M1 product now. But M1 and XIM are basically the same. I did like the XIM a little bit better. And