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Selecting Water-Based Paints for Exterior Use

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Painting Trim with The Idaho Painter

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um it was raining for like a week and a half and the last time i checked you can't paint in the rain so do you always use water-based paints on internal and exterior trim always i've used water-based paints on houses for the last 20 years so i know in some countries like over the uk they still use oil-based paints on exteriors are there can you give reasons why not to use them um why you don't well i like uh environmental regulations you can't availability they're not available they dry a lot slower over spray is going to carry for a long ways with oil-based paints and that's scary i don't want to breathe them all day long so that's another reason a lot of reasons so so this person says do you face off your corner boards or cut around the edge face yeah it does look nicer extremely labor-intensive um in that but if a customer wants it we charge for it and it's going to take probably about 400 to do that so kevin says greetings from australia greetings from australia mate and it's friday pan says hola so joseph said they dry slower but they cure faster um yeah so he's not a whale-based expert so um he's probably correct but they're also more brittle and don't flex expand and contract like a water-based paint guys you can't get it um in the majority of the us um i haven't seen uh oil-based exterior paint in 15 years this guy said in spain we use a lot of solvent paint i hate the smell but the water base are very bad they don't come very they don't cover very well three to four hands to cover well so hopefully they start getting

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