Overview
An in-depth guide to drying your paints efficiently
Well done. You’ve painted your wall.
When you complete a paint project, you may be asking yourself: how long does paint take to dry? Often times, the hardest part of any makeover is waiting for the paint to dry. After you’ve spent time and elbow grease on a great project, it’s tough to remain patient and let the paint dry fully before putting the item to use.
What now?
So what does one do now that the wall has been painted. Well there are many things to do. Develop self discipline? write a book? make a incredible painting?
no
there is much more than staying inside and sniffing paint fumes. its time to get outdoors and do stuff.
you could…
Have a Scavenger Hunt
Gather a group of friends and break off into teams for a jaunt around the city looking for specific things. Start by making up the list: red bicycle, kissing couple, Use a special hashtag and have each team post a pic every time an item is found. Whoever finds all the items on the list first wins!
Plant a Vegetable Garden
Collect some seeds from your local gardening center, claim a plot in the backyard, throw on some cute overalls, and start digging with your friends or date. In due time, you’ll have a sufficient source of yummy produce anytime you want. Once your first harvest is picked, be sure to invite those who helped you plant it over for a home-cooked meal.
Visit an Amusement Park
Love the thrill of roller coaster? Then head to the nearest amusement park. Challenge your friends or your date to go on every ride with you and reward yourselves with the ultimate amusement park food: funnel cake.
Volunteer
Help paint a house, spruce up city landscaping, clean up litter from the streets, or walk dogs at the animal shelter. Besides all those good feels you’ll get from doing something you’re passionate about, you’ll also be making a difference in your community. Win-win!
Get Creative with Sidewalk Chalk
Remember all the hours you used to spend drawing on the concrete outside of your house when you were a kid? It’s time to bring out that brilliant artist once again! Let your imagination soar and see what you can come up with now.
Take a Hike
Lace up your hiking boots and explore the great outdoors! Do a quick Google search to find the most scenic paths in your town and head out on an adventure and be sure to pack a picnic lunch to enjoy once you find the most Instagram-worthy spot on the trail.
Find an Outdoor Workout
Take your workout outdoors with an outdoor boot camp or yoga class! You can even make your own workout circuit and plan out a workout for your squad.
Actually… No..
Who actually wants to go outside,
who actually has real friends.
whats outside that one can’t achieve inside.
NOTHING.
Making paint dry faster.
You have a painting vision. You can’t wait to see it happen. But, it can’t happen fast enough. Although there’s no waving a magic wand to instantly dry the surface, there are a few tips that can help speed up the process. Here’s how to make paint dry faster.
Keep a fan on.
Multiple fans oscillating in the room will speed up the dry time considerably. You want to have a good amount of air circulation, but don’t have the fans on high if the room is dusty because it will ruin your paint finish.
Apply light coats.
If you’re using a thicker nap on your roller sleeve, it might cause you to apply far more paint than what you need, increasing your dry time substantially. Two uniform coats of paint will always look better than one really thick one, so it’s best to apply light coats. You should feel your roller sleeve starting to dry out as you apply light pressure towards the end of a few rolling patterns. If the paint is squishing out of the sleeve when you apply pressure, you still have too much paint in the sleeve and should continue rolling before getting more paint from the tray.
Keep the room warm.
If it’s winter and you’re painting in a space that gets a bit drafty, using a space heater is a good idea. Also, if it’s cold and your windows are leaky, that could affect how long the paint takes to dry near them. Some older homes that aren’t that well insulated can have fairly cold exterior facing walls. It’s still fine to paint them in the winter, but they might dry slower.
Keep the humidity down.
When it’s really muggy in the summer, paint dries more slowly. Actually, just painting in a closed room increases the humidity even on a normal day, so open the windows if you can and get some fresh air in the room.
A lack of connection.
]As wonderful as holding a hair dryer to your wall may be, there is a major disconnection between one and there wall.
You can’t touch it and stroke its beautiful flat definitions
You can’t gently blow on its little paint bubbles
You can’t even sniff the pain fumes till you come unconscious.
An intimate connection?
But one can watch the wall…………..
Stare…………….
Imagine…………………
Develop feelings……………..
Go watch some porn before it gets weird
Ascension
You did it. the paint is cured.
If you were patient enough.
One shall have ascended the undry wall plebians and become one of the few ascended dry wall immortals
A second coat.
Do it
