If youve everpainted a roomin your house or apartment, you know the pain of storing leftover paint.
First, a few quick caveats: Notallpaint can be brought back to life.
Frozen.If the paint froze at any point, its probably done for.
Paint that froze up will have a cottage cheese texture to it.
If you see these signs, toss the paint and resign yourself to buying a fresh can.
Otherwise, come with me on a paint-resurrection adventure.
It didnt smell bad, so I thought I had a pretty good shot at bringing it back.
Heres what you need on hand to try this:
Bucket.This is where youll collect the revived paint.
Paint thinner.If your paint is water-based, you’re able to thin it with some warm water.
Mine is oil-based, so I need paint thinnerI hadmineral spiritson hand, so I used that.
Painters tape.Any tape at all, really, but painters tape is easiest to work with here.
when you’ve got all your materials, your first step is to thin the paint a little.
This should eliminate the worst of the chunks in there.
Next, you screen the paint.
It worked well, the paint adhered without problems and matched up reasonably well with the old coat.
