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Slow your dry times! #slow #dry #times

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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This project demonstrates how to optimize the air drying process of fabrics, particularly in hot and dry conditions, by using a specialized liquid additive (fabric drying optimizer or conditioner). This additive helps control the evaporation rate, leading to more even drying, reduced stiffness, and a smoother final texture, minimizing issues like creasing or stiff spots.

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for you I'm outside painting today and I'm brushing some door jams right here and it's really hot outside and the air is really dry so my paint even though I'm not in the sun it's drying really fast and coagulating really quick adding a latex extender is going to um and slow down the dry time of the paint and it's actually going to help the paint level out and not show brush Strokes as much so I typically take on a date like this I'm going to take a couple capfuls I've got maybe a quart of paint in here I'll just add in you know maybe one and a half capfuls I'm going to stir that in and this is going to make the paint level out way better and it's going to dry a lot slower I'm not going to coagulate on my brush or um cause brush Strokes or coagulate on the trim nearly as fast and some of it's just a little bit of just playing around how much you ought to put in there you know you don't want to thin out the paint too much and make it watery but I'm starting off this is really thick paint and I didn't

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