Paint and decorating problem solver / safety topics

Problem Solver Topics

Select a topic you'd like to know more about:

• Asbestos

• Blistering
• Block resistance
• Blocking

• Caring for your Resene paint finish
• Chalking
• Check the weather – ideal painting weather
• Cleaning up
• Colour blindness including a quick colour blindness test
• Cracking and flaking

• Dealing with graffiti
• Dealing with paint spills in vehicles
• Delamination

• Efflorescence
• Excess moisture

• Fading
• Fire hazard - oil soaked rags

• Grease removal
• Gum in timber

• How much paint do I need?
• How to touch-up paint

• Lead-based paint
• Levels of finish (plasterboard)
• Lime burn

• Maintaining exterior painted surfaces
• Matching paint to ink
• Moss and mould problems

• On a roll - measuring, cutting and hanging wallpaper and borders
• Overcoating of mineral oils - Disclaimer

• Paint blisters back to substrate
• Paint calculator – find out how much paint you need!
• Paint equations
• Paint systems for earthquake damaged buildings
• Paint testing - a basic guide to field paint testing
• Painting during pregnancy
• Peeling
• Picture framing
• Pigment transfer

• Recommendations for coating CCA timber
• Repainting flood and storm damaged buildings
• Rotten timber
• Rotten timber repair with Repaircare

• Salt staining
• Skinning in paint
• Smoke damaged surfaces
• Spalling or concrete cancer
• Spreading rates
• Surfactant leaching

• Tannin staining
• Timber movement - primer appearing under new paint
• Tips for dealing with spills

• Using reflectance values

• Waterblasting
• Waterborne or solventborne?
• Wet area and service area sealer options
• What gloss level should I select?
• What's in a can of paint?

Safety Topics

Select a topic you'd like to know more about:

• Asbestos

• Fire ratings

• Glove up campaign – solvent safety

• Hazards in the preparation for painting
• Hazards of surface coatings
• Health and safety policy
• How to clean brushes and rollers without polluting the environment
• How to dispose of leftover paint without polluting the environment

• Ladder safety
• Lead-based paint

• Methods of removing paint safely

• Organic solvents

• Polyurethane paints and lacquers
• Protecting your eyes

• Respirators and breathing apparatus

• Safety information for parents
• Spontaneous combustion

• Volatile substances

• View Resene's Putting your safety first brochure. You will need Acrobat Reader.

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