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Cleaning Paintbrushes and Roller Covers
Any craftsman is only as good as his tools. Learn how to clean and maintain your brushes and roller covers and ensure professional results.
What’s the Difference: Deck Stain
Most stains are engineered to color and protect wood in a single coat and are available in oil-based, water-based, and water-based epoxy-fortified mixtures.
EndCuts Sealer for Trim
This water-based sealer is a quick and easy way to prime the end cuts of trim and minimize rot.
Bio-based wood sealer
Soyguard
Simple, Steady Support for a Paint Can
Give your hands a break and support heavy paint cans from the bottom with this technique.
What’s the Difference: Solid and Semitransparent Exterior Stains
Is oil-based stain dead?
Removing paint from brick
Q: My husband and I own a house built before World War I. We’ve done a lot of work to it, and there’s a lot more to go. Our next…
There’s No Escaping the Scraping
Washing, scraping, sanding, patching, and priming are dirty, difficult jobs that can make exterior paint last twice as long.
Painting metal-clad
Q: I bought new aluminum clad windows on the bargain rack, but the color is hideous. Can I paint them? Jenny Benner, Roxbury, CT A: Associate editor Daniel S. Morrison…
A source for inexpensive primer
Everybody agrees that back-priming wood siding improves the durability of the exterior-surface finish and the longevity of the wood. But I’ve seen siding installers ignore this important step because it…

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