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Understand Adhesion Issues & Risks

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Painters Beware: What is Wax Bleed and Solutions to Fix It.

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surface areas that have wax hydrocarbons on them. You have to treat it properly. But as a professional painter, I've done a lot of research with Sherman Williams and Columbia paints when it comes to this and dealing with chemists and coming up with solutions to this problem. This is a failure in the sighting and you have to understand that you as a painter, you can never warranty this. We've come up with a solution that's basically a temporary solution, but eventually the wax hydrocarbons will bleed through the primer that we recommend doing. It will eventually break down the primer over time and then that won't stick either. If you leave the house alone, if you don't do anything to it that the paint is not just going to fall off, it will be just fine. It's when you put something on there like tape, like if a customer, one customer massed how to fence up against the house, he's going to stain the fence. He massed off around the house, pulled the tape off and it pulled the paint off. That's the kind of thing that's going to cause the paint to actually come off and fail. If you leave it alone, it's like a glove, it's not just going to fall off, it's going to stay just fine. But

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