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I know it has been a while since my last post but I will start making them more often, and with your help it will become a daily Q and A session. I will also be starting a Tip of the day, or fact of the day, so watch for these help full hints.

Fact of the day: Oil paint continually cures throughout its life. This means that the oil, the binder/platform that all the other ingredients are mixed into, continuously evaporates after applied. This explains why really old oil paint cracks and starts to peel. Even relatively new oil paint becomes brittle with in the first few years of its life. This is the main reason I recommend 100% acrylic latex paint. The two main binders/platforms are water and acrylic (basically a liquid plastic). Once the initial evaporation occurs (the paint drying, usually about 24 hrs) the paint is considered cured and stops. Therefore it last much longer and stays pliable, which intern makes it more durable. It is the elasticity of the paint, along with other chemical aspects that makes it perform and protect.

Stay tuned because in my next segment I will talk about why you should use oil primers not latex, and use latex paint not oil as a topcoat.