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Top Quality Paint and Primer for New Colonial
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Top Quality Paint and Primer for New Colonial
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" Now let's meet -- who is our paint expert but around the Bob Vila signature collection has a twenty year warranty. What is it about the chemistry of the paint that justifies this warranty. Bob all paints are made with the -- with two components the first component being a solid in the second component being liquid and the liquid really is what conveys the paint through the surface but then it evaporates right that's right the liquid down. Helps you spread the paint otherwise without liquid it would be like spreading out cookie dough over -- right. And what are the components that make up the solids the components and make up the solids are pigments and also binders OK -- this paint particular has that it has an excellent binder. It is our 100% acrylic latex. Product here. That -- provides the painting gives the pain -- ability to. Resist fading retain its color from resist cracking and peeling and blistering it also allows the paint to. Have fight outstanding adhesion. To the surface and it has. And of course the priming which is what we've been doing now is one of the importance. Back you know factors in getting that longevity it is the primer actually seals the surface where paint only protects. If the primer. Has not been applied. In the paint has an opportunity to soak into the surface which is not always wanted to do we want the paint to stay on top of the surface to protect and beautify the house yes and how do the binders work to achieve that. The binders work to keep that right. Absent bringing in together all of the paint molecules and without going into deep into the chemistry of the paint from the tighter they hold the molecules are strong a surface. Now one thing with the exterior about houses that we need to be sure that the paint coating itself is readable. So that it allows moisture from the outside. Or from the inside of the house to the outside their house. To you know be able to permeate the surface without leaving -- should come right through -- of this this is the color that we're going to -- Putting on the field of the house. In just few minutes."
