Painting Tips & Trade Skills

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  • Tower Sealants, maker of quality caulking and sealers.

    Who Is Tower Sealants?

    Tower Sealants is a manufacturer of quality caulking and sealants. This company develops high-end formulas that will increase efficiency and productivity for professional painters, installers, architects, and...

  • Tips painting perfect lines with FrogTape.  By The Idaho Painter

    FrogTape Tips!

    The company ShurTape is a global industry-leading manufacturer of high-performance adhesive films, laminates, and tapes. Under their wing are brands like Duck®, FrogTape®, Painter’s Mate®, ShurTape®, T-Rex®,...

  • Non-Drying oils, the best coatings for fences, decks, and pergolas.

    Non-Drying Oils

    From a Paint and Stain Chemist with 30 years of formulation experience here. Nerd Alert!      The Good - As Chris says, Non-Drying Oils like this...

  • Why use a hose whip with an airless paint sprayer?

    Hose Whips 101

    There’s a million options out there for hose whips to use with airless sprayers - it can be hard to know which one is right for your...

  • Who is Uneeda, maker of Ekasand and sanding abrasives.

    Who Is Uneeda?

    Right at the top of Uneeda’s website, you’ll be able to see that they’ve been “offering the highest quality abrasives since 1967.” And there’s no doubts about...

  • PaintLine PSDRID, how to paint interior doors standing?

    PaintLine Jobsite Spray Booth &...

    Now that it's winter, us professional painters are transitioning into doing a lot of interior work. Whether that’s interior repaints, cabinet work, or furniture repair and flipping,...