Painting of walls - part 2

Bright walls make the room look larger, dark - less. If you paint every wall in their own special color, it will lead to interesting visual effects. If you want to postpone or bring one of the walls, the Colour the it color for 2 - 3 shades lighter or darker, respectively. To create the effect of calm and tranquility, pick up the pastel-colored paint with a matte structure: dispersion of the rays will Antireflective, soothing.

Defined with a choice of color, proceed to the choice of paint. In today's market it the choice is so vast that at first even difficult to determine what specific material is needed.

You can use traditional paints: oil, water-based, antibacterial, or in a mineral-based adhesive.

The first type - oil paint - the most ancient. Butter, serve as the basis for this coverage can be non-drying, semidrying and drying. The latter include tung, linseed and hemp. Experts believe that in order to paint the walls are better suited formulations based on linseed oil. Semidrying (corn, soybean and sunflower) and non-drying (castor) are not suitable for interior decoration.

Water-based paints dry fast, are not toxic and is easily diluted with water. Moisture evaporates from the paint partially, partially absorbed by the base, and on the surface of the walls is only the film formed by the dry color pigments. It has high strength and allows air to freely pass through the wall (which is very important for a good indoor climate). Water based paint makes the walls a matte, soft pastel tones. Color can be quite different depending on the organic dye.

Antibacterial paints suitable for decorating bathrooms, kitchens and toilets. They have a high degree of water resistance and contain algaecides and fungicides that prevent mold growth.

Should not be used for interior decoration perchlorovinyl compositions. Despite the fact that they hold much longer than other types of paints, have a high degree of water and wear resistance and virtually no fade in the sun, apply such compositions is only recommended for outdoor use, as a substance included in their composition, can be dangerous to health.

For painting the walls can be used acrylic matte and semi compositions. They are made on the basis of the solvent. As a binder used acrylic resin, which after evaporation foundation created on the surface of a solid film. This type of paint can be used to decorate virtually all surfaces. Drying such compositions quickly enough, and the second layer can be applied after 3 - 5 h after the first. If you want to create a matt or semi-matt surface, then this acrylic paints suited almost perfectly. The big plus of these compositions lies in the fact that they have virtually no sharp odor, and brushes and rollers after use, you can easily wash off with water.

With the use of acrylic resins are manufactured and glyptal paint (can be opaque to semi-gloss). Drying of these formulations is due to oxidation in air. Glyptal paint can be used in decorating the walls in bathrooms and kitchens, as they form a dense impermeable surface. These compounds are opaque, fit well, creating the effect of a stretched film. The only drawback of paints - a strong odor.

To gloss enamels are different. They can be either acrylic or glyptal. Drying such compositions quickly. Enamel can be diluted with white spirit or water. The film, which is formed on the painted surface, waterproof. Therefore, enamel is used for decorating the walls of damp rooms. In addition, such a surface is well cleaned. If you prefer, you can pick up the enamel without a sharp odor.

Semi-gloss paints have been producing recently. They are manufactured using the latest technologies. These compounds are very resistant to mechanical and chemical stress, so they can be used for painting walls in any room. Furthermore, the surface to be coated semi-gloss paints, can be either: concrete, plaster, slate, plywood, particle board, wood, brick, metal.

Minor flaws surface can be adjusted and mask with special paints. Binder in them are elastic resin. They form on the painted surface of thin film, which smooths out small bumps well and fine cracks. The only disadvantage of such coatings - the high cost.

If you plan to paint the metal surface, then you can do without pretreatment of anti-corrosive composition. To do this, use special paints that are made based on alkyd resins, and without the addition of lead.

For staining the wooden walls, you can use antibacterial paint (with the addition of fungicides). Such paints are well protect the wood from the appearance of mold.

In recent years, insecticidal paints. They destroy and repel pests, in addition, these compounds are struggling with the ticks that live in house dust. Waste products of mites cause allergies. Thus, the use of insecticidal paints to help reduce the risk of allergy or to facilitate its flow. They operate by the release of colors: after drying on the surface of crystallized particles of reagents in contact with which the insects are killed. Such paints are completely safe for humans and pets.

Another type of paint - lime. Often, such a composition is also called "stucco". Most often it is used for dyeing industrial buildings. Lime paint has a bactericidal and disinfectant properties, so that stucco is often used to combat mold, and various parasites which can live in wood surfaces. In addition, the composition of lime after drying smooths the surface of the walls. It can be used as a basis for other types of paints, and for self-decoration.

For painting the walls of stucco you need lime, glue, marble dust or Spanish chalk, natural dyes (clay, ocher, chimney soot), water (to create a paint), pan, trowel, a sieve, spray, sponge, casein, or soap, buckets, Brush, brush, palette knife (steel plate as a knife or spatula), trowel, spatula, cutter.

Paint manufactured as follows. First, a 1:2 ratio - 5 (depending on desired thickness of) mix the lime and water. Then in the resulting solution was added chalk, marble, pigment and glue. As the dyes can not use metal-based compositions. Otherwise, the lime to react with the metal. Natural non-metallic dyes usually dark, so you can not get a light-colored stucco. Stronger structure can be obtained by mixing lime and filler in a ratio of 1:1 or lime, filler and pigment in a ratio of 1:0,5:0,5. Approximate composition of stucco may be as follows: 1,5 - 2 kg of lime, 300 - 400 of marble dust and 500 - 600 g of chalk, 10 liters of soapy water. In the paint, you can add pigment. His number should not be more than 20% of the total solution. Otherwise, the paint does not catch up. As the release of the solution in the stucco can be added casein or buy a special hardener. Preparing a mixture of the eve of the works. It must stand for 10-12h.

Before applying paint to wet the surface of the wall with water. After the first coat of stucco is dry (the pigment in the composition is best not to add), it also is moistened and applied over the topcoat paint (already having the desired color). Amount of ink is spent on the second layer, depends primarily on the type of the decorated surface. Typically, 1 kg of paint missing on the staining of 2 m2 wall.

For more decorative, you can use the paint in several colors. You can mix them directly on the wall with a spatula. It is best to add in all shades of white paint. This will make the colors softer and creates an illusion of transparency.

To give final shape of the surface by using a palette knife, occasionally dipping it in soapy water and a wire on the painted surface in the contact points between paints of various colors that enhance the transition of tones. In addition, you can pass over the surface with a damp cloth. This will give the walls of the original invoice. Add gloss walls by using the impregnation of wax.

Top stucco covered with a layer of paint adhesive, highly diluted with water. This aligns the defects remaining after the surface coating of lime paint.

If the paint in the bank was covered with foil, then stir it need not: fragments of dried up layer will remain on the painted surface, giving it a slovenly appearance. Film must be carefully cut along the edge, along the banks of the shell itself, and pull out. If all failed to remove it, the paint is filtered through a nylon stocking.

The paint should be applied with a thin layer (note that for once all the paint room is likely to fail). After the first layer is applied next. Complete painting of the walls carried out in 2 - 3 admission. Keep in mind that deposited in several stages paint will stick much better than that deposited in one step.

Although the staining can be performed as at one time or two. In the first case of paint is applied on the surface of the wall and carefully shade in any one given direction. In this case, the paint is applied relatively thick layer, and then its up to a more subtle shade. If the work is performed in two approaches, the composition initially applied in one direction and then rolled in fresh paint in the other. In this case, all the bands that will inevitably remain on the surface after the tool overlap, the surface is a more even, without the unpainted areas.

Staining in two steps, is best done alone. An employee must apply paint horizontally, and another shade it vertically. If you are painting alone, the hook is working. For example, cover part of the wall (1,5 - 2 m wide) paint, causing strokes in the horizontal direction. Then blend of vertical movements. During the painting carefully, make sure that between the jaw had no visible boundaries, and after shading on the surface were not formed rough and sharp bands.

In addition, the staining can be performed once or twice. The second time the walls repainted in the case where the surfaces of the gaps or drips or if the composition was maloukryvistym (through the coat shine basis). If you paint the wall an oil composition, repeat the staining is possible only after the complete drying of the first layer. If we used glue or lime paint, then refinishing need of a lighter shade on the original, or less saturated colors.

In the low areas (2,2 - 2,7 m) walls should not divide horizontally on contrasting parts. This visually reduces the height of the already low ceilings. Painting should be carried out as close as possible to the ceiling. Indent can make 5 - 7 cm, no more. The reason is that the broad frieze, friezes and cornices make the room visually below.