1. When painting with oil paint, get a matte surface, you can add 40% solution of laundry soap at the rate of 1 piece per 3 liters of paint. The soap is chipped, poured with water (to lightly cover), and heated until it dissolves. Then, stirring, add to the paint.
2. A film forms on the paint layer, it is not necessary to filter it. You can put a piece of nylon stocking in the jar, and dye the brush right through the stocking.
3. If you want to paint walls in the house, you must first remove the old paint with a spatula, after having moistened the walls with water. After all has dried, cover all the cracks. Then primed in a horizontal, and then in a vertical direction. Paint for walls is prepared as well as whitewashing for the ceiling, only twice the amount of glue. The selection of colors and shades of paint is checked on a piece of glass, which is then dried on low heat. The paint is too dark - you need to add a bit of chalk. Light paint can be made darker by adding colored pigments.
4. Painted with oil paint the walls can be washed with warm water with drinking soda, ammonia (1 tablespoon of alcohol for 1 liter of water), then wipe with a damp cloth and then with a dry cloth.
5. In order to repair the apartment paint did not fall on your hands and did not drip onto the floor, you need to cut the rubber pear from the syringe and put it on the handle of the paint brush.
6. The smell of oil paint after repair will quickly disappear, if you put in a room in two or three places vessels with salt water. You can also rub the head of garlic and leave for a while in the room.
7. Oil paint from long storage covered with a film: in no case can not stir it, and you need to carefully remove the film. If the film has torn, cut out the gauze round the diameter of the can and lower it to the paint. The gauze will cover the scraps of the film and sink to the bottom with them.
8. That the oil paint does not dry out, pour a thin layer of sunflower oil on its surface.
9. It is impossible to pour the remains of different colors together, this mixture can never dry after painting.
10. The paint on the brush will not wither, if after the painting works put the brush in the water.
11. In order to paint easily on the floor, windows, tiles, it is necessary to cover them with a soap solution (20-30 g of soap per liter of water) before repairing.
12. New brushes before work it is recommended to wrap on 2/3 lengths of hair twine.
13. That the new paint brush does not lose hair, it should be held for a day or two in water. Or to hammer in the handle of the handle a small wooden wedge. You can remove the cartridge to pour a little varnish or oil paint into it.
14. Oil paint on the dried brush is easily removed, if you put it in a jar with ammonia, kerosene, turpentine or other solvents.
15. The brush after the glue paint is well washed, if it is lowered into warm water with a small amount of soda, then rinse and hang hair down.
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