Best Household Paint Solvents
It restores surfaces to the original color for a perfect match every time and the wipe-on application means no messy paint drips, brush marks or overspray. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Looked online before buying and found most complaints about the need to wear gloves and the fact the bottle of material was too small. Keep in mind this product is effectively stripping the top layer of the plastic away via a chemical reaction, so use the gloves."
"It comes with a soaked cloth in a sealed pouch, a tiny bottle of the liquid, and a couple of different applicators. Once it starts drying you can add more of the liquid from the bottle."
"Make sure you put it on evenly and use long swipes and overlap but watch the amount you use."
"It's an 18 year car, and the paint was off in some places, had oxidized, yet this made it almost imperceptible to find the difference."
"Best product ever."
"I used this on my shutters on the house."
"But when I applied it the first time like OMG. it got all of the wax build up I had on my Rhino cover I have for my bed of my pick-up ."
"Tried this product on a combination of plastic ladirondeck lawn chairs, one very faded others mildly faded with oxidation."
Klean-Strip Green QKGA75003 Denatured Alcohol, 1-Quart. Produces a hot, clean, odorless and smokeless flame in alcohol burners and marine stoves.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I use denatured alcohol to greatly extend the use of our automobiles' wiper blades."
"I used this for fondue, be careful not to overfill though or you can easily start a fire."
"Excellent product for cleaning tools."
"great product, would buy again."
"I bought this instead of the regular denatured alcohol because of the higher ethanol content."
"Good cleaning product."
"Used it to clean my brake bleeder."
' Paint Solidifier, 15 lb., Base Type Sodium Polyacrylate, Sodium Potassium Alumina Silicate, White, Coverage Absorbs Up to 25 gal., Dry Time 3 min., Application Method Absorbs Up to 25 gal., For Use With Latex or Acrylic Based Paints, and Stains '.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Much more than any other paint."
"I have a commercial painting company and we use this with all our overflow of colors in order to dispose of them in the landfield, works great has saved us time and money."
"It worked ever bit as good as the expensive stuff and made the paint hard enough that we could toss it in the dump trailer."
"Great product, I used a grout mixer on the end of my drill to mix it up."
"Using 2.5 scoops per gallon the product hardens as described.."
"Works good and seems to be a little cheaper than buying a bunch of the small packs you can get at hardware stores."
"Excellant product!"
"My two major complaints have to do with what the manufacturer does and doesn't say about the product: 1) DOESN'T SAY: As noted by another reviewer, there is no clue provided -- even approximately -- as to how much to use. An hour after mixing in 6 or 7 scoops of product into each oil-based can, the oil-based paints were still runny. The only other tip I can offer: the job goes fast if you attach a long paint mixer (every Home Depot has them for a few bucks) to a high-powered drill. However, dump in plenty of product: once it starts to harden it will be difficult or impossible to stir in more -- you could be stuck with "pudding"."
Best Household Wood Stains
Gel Stains are heavy-bodied, and so do not penetrate as deeply into the wood as liquid oilbase stains do.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Saved me thousands of dollars replacing these horrid oak banisters. Put on some latex gloves, then throw a sock over your hand and go to town that way. You'll still need something smaller for hard to reach areas but don't waste your time trying to be fancy. You will want to finish with a poly coat over top to prevent the stain from fading or coming off."
"I treated every coat like it was the top coat, making sure to not leave any blobs or streaks and just let a little bit of color soak in with every coat. I did about 3 coats of the Brown Mahogany first to get that rich red tone, and then used about 2-3 coats of the java on top just to darken it up a bit. 3 coats of Java Gel stain and the Urethane top coat (3 coats) on top."
"I was able to finish the bathroom (3 coats) and put 2 coats on in the kitchen with one gallon. I used a matte finish polyurethane for the kitchen cabinets and a gloss finish for the bathroom cabinets."
"We tried minwax gel stain initially and we were very unhappy with the results."
Best Household Varnishes
1 Gallon kit covers around 25 sq.f.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This was my first time with Epoxy so I will share my experience to help the next victim :). Crafted 2 end tables and wanted to inlay a picture below the epoxy, Watched several videos and read how to's on it. ( did mine in garage with door open, don't do that). Prep, MUST do a seal coat, I read this and thought ehh, I prepped the wood enough and skiped this. I fought bubbles for about an hour while top layer dried. Loved how they turned out for my first time, If you take one thing away from my review, let it be to pour thin multiple layers!"
"First time user here, I read the instructions and my product came out perfect."
"I put off buying epoxy after hearing numerous horror stories and seeing some firsthand mess ups (bubbles galore, sticky finishes, etc...)."
"So far so perfect!"
"I always wanted to play with resin and there are a lot of products on the market."
"Good product at a fair price."
"Comes with excellent step by step instructions."
"Works well and looks great on my bar surface."
Best House Paint
POR-15 is a high-tech high performance rust-preventive coating designed for application directly on rusted or seasoned metal surfaces.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"So just be cautious and wear the right equipment, and protect things you don't want coated black cause this stuff can run and drip."
"A bit of information missing in description did not mention it will not hold up to direct sun--not UV protected."
"One quart is more than enough to complete these projects and still have plenty left for touch ups down the road."
"It is UV sensitive so if you wanna paint a part that is exposed to the sun just give it a top coating with another paint."
"Great product."
"Just check out any classic car forum or classic car parts catalog,you'll find it."
"Looks reasonably good rolled on if you go slow and do a few thin coats."
"guaranteed" to stop rust and it didn't I applied it as it stated not even gave it a top coat to protect it from the elements and the rest still broke through the layer on my left quarter panel."
Best Spray Paint
Size: 11 oz. Enter your model number to make sure this fits. Workable fixatif spray protects computer prints, pencil, pastel and chalk drawings.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Works great but smells terrible."
"Great quality even though some of the lids were cracked or damaged but still a great product."
"Does a great great job in protecting my coloring pages but the smell is horrible."
"It covers well, really stops the smears."
"Ok......use this for pastels."
"I got this for school and as fixatives go, this is probably one of the best products available, although I do wish it were more low odor."
"I can work over it, erase it and depend on it."
"I used this to set a pencil and watercolor picture my daughter-in-law painted."
Best Primer Paint
The Zinsser Bulls Eye 1-2-3 Water-Based White Interior/Exterior Primer and Sealer can be used on a variety of surfaces throughout the whole house. The Zinsser Bulls Eye 1-2-3 Water-Based White Interior/Exterior Primer and Sealer can be used on a variety of surfaces throughout the whole house. Water-based formula sticks to most surfaces without requiring sanding for ease of use; Cleans easily with soap and water.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Instead of cutting in around everything first and rolling later, I painted one 12" tile at a time (cut in around the edges with the brush and rolled the center of the tile)."
"I needed to prime a large bed frame which already had a stain applied to it."
"No sanding needed, used this to prime dining room chairs from the 60s."
"Good coverage, good protection, easy to apply."
"Great primer!"
"Used this on west facing steps that get fried 300 days a year, so they were cracking and peeling badly Two coats of this and they looked great and the finish coat went on like ice cream on a two year old's face--smooth and easy!."