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Faux Finish Painting Clean up Tips:
Got the dead brush blues? Did you leave a brush full of glaze or paint sitting around too
long? Finish that faux painting project Friday afternoon and forget about your badger brush until
Monday morning? Dried up latex paint on your roller handles making you crazy?
Try This: Let your tools soak in a bucket of undiluted Simple Green for a day or two.
The product will just peel or wash right off. We always have a bucket of Simple Green we toss
brushes, roller handles and the like into. The next day or two after when we rinse them off
they are as good as new…well almost. Hard to believe such an environmentally safe material
will act as a paint stripper. Hey I hear you can even drink Simple Green. Serve chilled...
probably tastes something like Jagermeister.
Here's another one: After a long day faux finishing, if you let your roller covers soak
in water that has a pinch of Downey in it they will clean up more easily… and smell pretty
nice too.
Marmorino all over my Chanel suit: We've found that, when using a natural lime based
plaster such as Marmorino, if you wash your clothes the day of
or day after getting plaster on them they will wash right off, unlike latex paint. In a
pinch you could probably throw them in that bucket of Downey with the roller covers in it.
And finally: 10 years ago when I went from being primarily a faux painter to doing
much more Venetian plaster I noticed something. Plaster professionals are really fussy
about the cleanliness of their tools and their buckets. Want to know why? Because a couple
of little pieces of dried up plaster - AKA "hitchhikers"- on your hawk or in your bucket will
ruin your morning when applying Marmorino or other smooth polished plasters. And they can
also ruin a bucket of expensive lime based material. So be clean and neat and you will
reap the benefits. Customers will absolutely love that about their decorative plastering
contractors too.
Want to learn much, much more? Dozens of invaluable tips like this one are taught at our
decorative finishing school. Check out our
Architectural Wall Finishing and other classes.
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Good luck, write me with any questions or comments.
Email Aaron Cohen
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