When you finish painting or varnishing a project, it is often that left with some paint. To not waste it and store it for future use, we put together a few quick tips on how to store your paint.
Heat or cold can quickly ruin paint making it hard and impossible to work with.
It is important that you try and place the paint in the smallest container that you can find that wont allow too much air space in the container, as the more air you have in your container the greater the chances are that you will end with hardened pain, this as result of air reacting with the paint and hardening the paint.
Mark this container clearly with the colour and type of pain that you have in the container, include the date so that you have an idea of how old the paint is.
You can then take glad wrap and wrap this around the tin, this adds another layer of air sealing and also prevents any leaking should the container not be sealed properly.
A good tip is to allways clean the lid grooves after you have used the paint, as these grooves tend to collect paint in these grooves, which hardens and then prevents the lid from sealing properly, or even worse is that it hardens so much that you cannot open the lid and then risk injury trying to.
When you reseal the lid do not hammer it into place with a metal small headed hammer, this damages the lid and also once bent or damaged, rather take a larger head tool such asa mallet or a piece of wooden plank placed over the lid to spread the force evenly and then hammering on this to seal the lid.
Finally after having done all this is to on a regular basis as you do s0me cleaning to turn the tin around so that the paint does not form a hard sludge on one side of the tin
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