How to identify oil paint?

Printable View

11th September 2009, 01:50 PM
Reno RSS Feed

How to identify oil paint?

I am repainting all my architraves and need to know of the previous paint is oil based.

If it is oil based paint then I need to sand and prime. If it is water based, then I only need to lightly sand to take off the gloss.

The exsiting paint is glossy, but I don't know how to tell whether it is oil based or not.

So, how do I tell if something has been painted using oil based paint?

Read the full thread at RenovateForum.com...

All times are GMT +11. The time now is 08:02 PM.

This website and its content is copyright of U-Beaut Enterprises.
Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

♦ you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
♦ you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge
Woodwork Forums as the source of the material.

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content.
Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.