Paint Is Colored Glue

Re:Paint Is Colored Glue by crazygringo on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:55AM (#19605748)

> 15 years later, the apartment looks just-painted

Curious what you mean?

In my experience, new paint coats are needed because of marks left on walls -- accumulated smudges, scuffs, furniture bangs, nicks, filled anchor holes, etc. None of which higher-quality paint has anything to do with... I assume?

Am I wrong? Assuming paint is applied correctly in the first place, what are the longevity benefits of using a higher-quality paint?

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Re:Paint Is Colored Glue by rhinoceraptor on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:09AM (#19605867)

A lot of scuffs and smudges can be cleaned off with a magic eraser and some elbow grease. It's certainly easier than re-painting.

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Re:Paint Is Colored Glue by dilyevsky on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:20PM (#19608219)

Depends on paint sheen (try doing that with flat finish paint - just gonna smear it all over)

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Re:Paint Is Colored Glue by samastur on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:32PM (#19606708)

Soft rubber eraser works too.

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Re:Paint Is Colored Glue by GordonS on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:24PM (#19607178)

Some white paint goes an off yellow colour over time, particularly gloss paint.

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Re:Paint Is Colored Glue by pnathan on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:25PM (#19607768)

that is typical of oil paint, due to the way linseed polymerizes.

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Re:Paint Is Colored Glue by GordonS on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:46PM (#19607940)

I couldn't remember whether it was water-based gloss or oil-based gloss that was most affected, so just went for "gloss" - thanks for clarifying :)

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