[Closed] PIGGING GLOSS PAINT!!!

Nuke it from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

peanut butter. Or chewing gum.

Not water based is it?
You could always use scissors to get it out of your hair. 🙂

how do I get it out of:
- my carpet?
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- my paint brushes?
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- my hair?
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I just tend to buy the cheap brushes and chuck em after I've finished a coat. Alternatively I just dunk the brush in a cup of White spirit rather than trying to actually clen the thing.

Clippers for your hair

Buy a new carpet - there's paint on yours

I just tend to buy the cheap brushes and chuck em after I've finished a coat

that was my plan, but "you need to get the £6 one" she says, "otherwise the bristles will fall out in the paint"
the meths has got it out of the carpet

Brake cleaner

as in disk brake cleaner?
the spray stuff?

Your first mistake, see, was to buy gloss paint in the first place. It really is the devil's spunk.

as in disk brake cleaner?
the spray stuff?

Yes.

Decent solvent it is.

Best to concentrate it though by spraying against the side of a container to condense the liquid.

Keep well away from ignition sources.

Dont use white spirit it leaves an oily residue, oh its ok actually, we're not talking about brakes this time!

Dont use white spirit it leaves an oily residue, oh its ok actually, we're not talking about brakes this time!

Brake cleaner has lots of uses.

Not sure if UK cleaner is still diethyl-ether or not. Smells similar, but smells can be deceiving.

Quirrel - Member
.... smells can be deceiving.

Too true. e.g. fish

Decent solvent it is.

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it's gone in the bin

Friend was saying the other night how baby wipes got gloss off his carpet. Dont know how true it is but he's the diy type and likes to share his 'advice'. Id be surprised if they work but he was swearing by them, so might be worth a try if you've got some handy.

Chep brushes that can be wrapped in cling film between coats (or for a couple of days) and thrown away when job finished

baby wipes will work on hair if they work on carpet?

😆

Something tells me you're not an experienced (or even competent) painter/decorator!

A mate of mine who is, tells me that you must keep the brushes from drying out, so keep them sealed in a plastic bag wrapped tightly round them, if leaving for a few hours.

I'm perfectly competent at painting
and also making a mess

Decent quality brushes, keep them from drying out, clean them with copious amounts of White Spirit.

He re-uses brushes a fair bit, and his paintwork is ****ing immaculate, I tell you. He painted a door once with brushes, better than I can do with a mini roller. And you should see his wallpapering. To die for.

How TF have you managed to get paint in your carpet and your hair, FFS?

When I were a lad, I had a day's work helping a mate's dad was a P+D. Contract job for the local council. I was charged with painting the bannisters. Managed to knock a whole tin of gloss over the only patch of dark blue stair carpet that wasn't protected by dust sheets.

It wasn't funny. The woman who lived there was crying. Spent ages with about 600 gallons of White Spirit to get it all out. Mate's dad had to get a professional carpet cleaner in to shampoo them.

I went round about 2 weeks later, with a pot plant to apologise. The place still smelled faintly of White Spirit. Fortunately the lady forgave me, and made me a cup of tea. I remember she had a nice cleavage.

I never worked in painting and decorating again.

liver

Elfinsafety - Member

A mate of mine who is, tells me that you must keep the brushes from drying out, so keep them sealed in a plastic bag wrapped tightly round them, if leaving for a few hours.

Use clingfilm on them between coats and that'll keep them soft for a couple of days. Same goes a roller or for paint in a roller tray. For the latter, make sure the clingfilm is against the paint and don't trap air under it.

dirtyrider - Member
liver

Liver? What do you mean, 'liver'? You can't just say 'liver' and that's it.

Threadjack...
Over here we have our own bio-cycle system, essentially a mini sewerage plant in the garden - even have a license for it 😯

How we laughed when the 'old boy' who painted our house decided to wash and flush the resulting paint shiat down the kitchen sink. We had:
a. A dead bio system - so whole thing started to stink like a cesspit (which it was/is) .
b. White (well magnolia I suppose) feature highlights all through the system.
c. Contamination of local ecology no doubt. Errr, move on past that point though.

****wit.

As an aside, rotten milk is a good primer for those systems, as is a bad curry as it turns out (though not such a good delivery system).

Liver? What do you mean, 'liver'? You can't just say 'liver' and that's it.

Don't worry, I've redressed the balance and put said 'Liver' comment in one of their posts.

[edit] no, actually someone else's post. Comedic Fail. 🙁
[edit2] one of yours actually. jeeeze. Not even drinking (yet).

Professional P and D's use something called a 'Brushmate' to store wet brushes used for 'oil based paint'. Brushmate also make a smaller version which can hold 4 brushes and is ideal for the D.I.Yer especially if you're doing a lot of trimwork painting.

[url= http://www.brushmate.co.uk/productsummary.html ]Brushmate link[/url]

One 'old school' way of keeping your gloss brush from going off is after painting keep the brush submerged in water. When ready to paint again just shake off the water and away you go. Wouldn't recommend this method though (bit messy)

You need a good solvent. White spirits isn't marvelous but it's relatively harmless which is why they let you buy it.

Methyl ethyl ketone will shift it if you can find it (might shift carpet, bristles and skin too?). Same goes for nitromors and methanol.

If you are really struggling the two comon solvents that are easy to get hold of that may work are isopropyl alcohol (antiseptic wipes/chemist) or acetone (nail varnish remover), might also be worth a shot with the turpentine replacement stuff many diy places sell.

Second thoughts, copy the ingredients onto here (important ones should be on the side under safety information) and I'll suggest something else, normally the best solvent is the one that was already in the paint. Works better when it's still wet but may work if it's dried.

thanks for the replies, the brush is in the bin now
I won't be using gloss ever again

I have no idea what methyl ethyl ketone is.

Edit: Yes i do butan-2-one, blinking non-iupac nomenclature

its CH3 C=O CH2CH3. It is methyl ethyl ketone, it need no further explaination as the IUPAC naming describes it.

/chemistry geek

I love MEK. One of the greatest solvents ever (apart from water).

DCM might make a good go of it as well, not sure if you can still buy small bottles it or not.

Back to OP question, we discovered when decorating several years ago that baby wipes were able to take fresh gloss drips off laminate floor with no effort at all. Also quite good at removing it from skin.

Paint the carpet?

Add more paint blobs to the rest of the carpet, to give it a unique 'customised' appearance?

I tried to clean gloss paint with white spirit, got nowhere, then realised that it was water based gloss...

Brake cleaner has lots of uses.

Except cleaning bike brakes. DO NOT USE IT! It leaves oil all over the brakes which presumably on car brakes stops them from rusting, but they generate the heat to burn it off. Bike brakes do not, and you won't clean them by any other solvent, or fire. Trust me.

Use clutch cleaner instead - leaves no residue at all.

Except cleaning bike brakes. DO NOT USE IT! It leaves oil all over the brakes which presumably on car brakes stops them from rusting, but they generate the heat to burn it off. Bike brakes do not, and you won't clean them by any other solvent, or fire. Trust me.

Here we go.

What? Is this controversial in some way?

here we go

Happy to oblige 🙂

I just use washing up liquid on rotors and calipers, then rinse well. But then I don't go around marinading them in olive oil or GT85 ...

I too have used soap and water, in fact it's usually just the jetwasher. I only have to use some chemical cleaner on the infrequent occasion that I spill or drop something on them. It does help though to give it a squirt periodically. I think most people's claims of 'Hope/Shimano/Hayes etc are crap!' are because their pads have become contaminated. New pads always makes a big difference. I recently binned a pair I'd had for 6 months or so half worn, because they were contaminated (with car brake cleaner as it happens), and my brakes are now awesome again.