Cleanliness And The Painters
Cleanliness And The Painter's Health The Painter Is Exposed In A Peculiar Degree To The Danger Of Poisoning. In His Case Espe Cially, Cleanliness Is An Absolute Essential Of Con Tinuous Good Health. He Handles Materials Of A Poisonous Character. White Lead, For Example, Is A Deadly Poison; So Is ...
Driers Oils
Oils, Driers, Varnishes, Etc. We Shall Now Briefly Occupy Ourselves With Those Fluids Which Are Indispensable To The Worker For Compounding With Pigments Mixed In Paint. Oils Are Usually Divided Into Two Classes, And Are Termed Fixed Oils And Volatile Oils. Fixed Oils Are Further Distinguished, By Their Nature And ...
Estimating Painters Work
Estimating Painters' Work Probably No Other Building Trade Mechanics Are So Careless In Making Estimates Or So In The Habit Of Guessing At The Cost Of Their Work, As The Painters. Perhaps One Reason For This Is That Their Work Is Not Done From Drawings, Like That Of The Carpenter, ...
Gilding And Bronzing
Gilding And Bronzing One Of The Most Ancient Of The Arts Included Within The Painter's Craft Is That Of Gilding, Or Overlaying A Surface With Thin Sheets Of Beaten Metal—gold, Silver, Aluminum, Tin, Etc. The Modern Decorator Uses Gilding In Many Ways, Either For Accenting Mouldings Or Carvings, As In ...
Hanging Wallpaper
Hanging Wallpaper Number Of Rolls Required. A Single Roll Of Ordinary Wallpaper Is Eighteen Yards Long By Eighteen Inches Wide; And A Single Roll Of Ingrain, Felt, Or Cartridge Paper Is Eight Yards Long By Thirty Inches Wide. A Single Roll Of One-strip Border Is Eight Yards Long By Eighteen ...
Hardwood Finishing
Hardwood Finishing Varnish Manufacturers, In Preparing Sam Ples, Use Methods Which Are Impossible To Dupli Cate In Finishing Any House. The Manufacturer Naturally Desires To Make The Best Possible Showing For His Goods, Hence His Samples Are Prepared With The Utmost Possible Care. Selected Lumber Is Used, Which Is Sandpapered ...
House Decoration Differencebetween
House Decoration - Difference Between Color And Paints In Interior Work, Paint Is Employed Chiefly For Decorative And Ornamental Purposes; And These We Shall Now Consider In Detail. It Is Necessary That The Student And Worker In Paints Should Clearly Understand The Differ Ence Between The Two Terms Pigment And ...
How To Mix Oil
How To Mix Oil Paints To Set Down Exactly The Proportions Of Dif Ferent Pigments Necessary For Producing Any Desired Tint Or Color, May At First Sight Appear An Easy Task. For Instance, It May Be Said, "mix Together Three Parts Of Lead, Two Of Black, And One Of Yellow," ...
Ingredients Of Paint
Ingredients Of Paint White-base Pigments. The Principal White Base Pigments Are White Lead And Zinc White. Besides These There Are Several White Pigments, Which Are Variously Regarded As Inert Pigments Or As Extenders. Among These Are Barytes, Whiting, And Gypsum. White-lead, One Of The Oldest Known Pig Ments, Is The ...
Paint Shop Hints
Paint Shop Hints Fire Risks. Carelessness Is No Doubt The Primary Cause Of Most Paint Shop Fires, And To This May Be Attributed The High Rates Asked For Insurance. On Looking Over The Reports Of Fires In Such Shops, It Will Often Be Found That Some One Was Drawing Benzine ...
Painting Brickwork
Painting Brickwork Brick Walls May Be Painted In Two Ways— Either To Imitate The Effect Of Pressed Brick, Or Simply To Give Color With A Gloss Finish That Will Be Effective In Waterproofing The Bricks. If Brick Walls Are To Be Painted With A Gloss Finish, Four Or More Coats ...
Painting Concrete Blocks
Painting Concrete Blocks The Increasing Use Of Concrete Building Blocks Is Bringing A New Difficulty To The Painter, Because Many People Insist That Their Houses Shall Be Painted At Once. Concrete Surfaces, However, Whether They Be Building Blocks Or Ce Mented Walls, Cannot Be Successfully Painted Until The Caustic Properties ...
Painting Galvanized Iron
Painting Galvanized Iron No More Puzzling Problem Is Set Before The Painter Than That Of Painting Galvanized Iron Work So That It Will Stay Painted. Unless A Pre Paratory Treatment Is Given, Almost Any Ordi Nary Paint Will Sooner Or Later Peel Off. The Cause Of This Is Not Exactly ...
Painting Plastered Walls
Painting Plastered Walls In Every House There Are Some Walls And Ceil Ings Which Should Be Painted Or Which It Is Usual To Paint. There Are Many People Who Be Lieve That Wall Paper Is Unhealthy, And That A Wall Finished In Oil Paint That Can Be Washed Is More ...
Painting Tin Roofs
Painting Tin Roofs The Painting Of Tin Roofs Is Closely Allied To The Painting Of Galvanized Iron, Because Roofing Tin Is Composed Of Thin Sheets Of Iron Coated With A Mixture Of Tin And Lead. Many Tin Roofs Are Painted With Cheap Metallic Paints, Mixed With Substitute Or So-called "paint ...
Painting And Decorating
Painting And Decorating Purpose Of Painting. Painting Serves Two Well-defined Purposes—namely, Protection And Ornament. Incidentally, It Serves Also The Pur Pose Of Sanitation, For Painted Surfaces Afford Poor Lodgment For Disease Germs And Filth, And Are Easily Kept Clean. Painting Requires The Exercise Of Careful Judgment. The Condition Of The ...
Painting And Finishing Floors
Painting And Finishing Floors How Shall The Floor In The Ordinary House Be Treated So That Rugs May Be Used, Yet So That All Unnecessary Expense May Be Avoided? There Are A Great Many Houses Where The Expense Would Render Hardwood Floors Out Of The Ques Tion. In The Case ...
Paperhangers Tools And
Paperhangers' Tools And The Ordinary Form Of Pasting Brush Is Shown In Fig. 54. This Is Useful For Distempering; Also A Half-worn "paddle" Brush Makes A Good Brush For Paste, As, Being Wide, The Paste Can Be Spread Quickly—a Great Advantage When Us Ing Cheap Papers, Which Will Not Stand ...
Paperhanging
Paperhanging Decorated Paper As A Covering For Walls Is Said To Have Been Invented And Used By The Chinese, And From Them Traveled Westward. These First Pieces Of Wallpaper Were Only 20 Inches Square, And Were Pasted To The Wall Much In The Modern Manner. The Cheapness Of The Material, ...
Pigments For Decoration
Pigments For Decoration In The Manufacture Of Pigments, There Are Two Actions, One Chemical And The Other Mechani Cal; And There Is A Great Difference Between The Two. In A Chemical Compound A Substance Is Produced Which Differs From The Several Ingre Dients Of Which It Is Composed. A Mechanical ...
Preparing For Painters Work
Preparing For Painters' Work The Above Rules Are Only The Most Important. They Have Been Obtained As The Result Of Ex Perience Of Practical Men From All Parts Of The Country, And Represent, As Near As May Be, The Equivalent Cost As Compared With A Plain Surface Of The Same ...
Removing Stains Or Smut
Removing Stains Or Smut Marks Smoke Stains On Plastered Walls Are Often A Source Of Great Annoyance To The Painter, Since They Will Come Through And Stain Paint Or Wall Paper, And Are Well-nigh Impossible To Cure. A Method That Is Recommended For Cleaning A Smoky Ceiling That Is To ...
Rules For Outside Measurements
Rules For Outside Measurements Clapboard Walls—add One Square Foot To Each Square Yard Of Measurement To Allow For Under Edges Of Boards. Flat Brick, Wood, Cement, Or Stone Walls— Measure Height By Width, And Add The Area Of Openings. Cornices—if Plain, Multiply The Length By One And One-half Times The ...
Selection Of Wallpaper
Selection Of Wallpaper The Great Variety In Color And Design Of Wall Papers Now Available Renders Choice A Matter Of Difficulty; But, Where An Artistic Room Is Desired, The Importance Of Careful Selection Cannot Be Over-estimated; For, However Much Skill May Have Been Expended In The Painting, The Decor Ative ...
Tools Used By Painters
Tools Used By Painters Brushes. The Value Of Hogs' Bristles, From Which Most Of The Ordinary Brushes On The Market Are Made, Depends Upon Their Length, Strength, Elasticity, And Also Color. White Brushes Are Commonly Preferred, Not Only By House-painters, But Also In All Descriptions Of Brushes, Probably Under The ...
Treating Damp Walls Re Papering
Re-papering, Treating Damp Walls, Etc. In Re-papering It Is Desirable, Though Not Ab Solutely Necessary, That The Old Paper Should Be Stripped From The Walls. If It Is Decided To Leave It On, Rub Down The Joints Of Overlapping Blocks. If Any Exist, With Glass-paper; Do Any Necessary Stopping, Then ...
Water Paints For Exterior
Water Paints For Exterior And Interior Work Calcimining. The Art Of Painting Upon Plas Ter With Water Colors Is Called "calcimining" Or "kalsomining." It Is Also Known As "distemper Painting," And Is Sometimes Spoken Of As "tint Ing." In This Class Of Work The Colors Are Mixed With Whiting As ...