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Home Improvement InformationMobile House Repair - Ceiling Stains
by:
Paul Krause
Ugly, brown stains are a common feature of mobile house ceilings. They develop once
roof leaks or condensation cause water to drip
onto the ceiling tiles from above.
They persist because because removal is not as simple as painting over the stain. The stain "bleeds" through paint effort it as ugly
as before. In addition, many an mobile house ceilings are ready-made with a sprayed on physical science texture which is Really fragile. Painting it
with a roller or brushing on a heavy latex paint is a nice way to pull off several of the texture, effort a bare, untextured area.
Fortunately, stains are easy to cover if you have the right materials.
There is no point in doing the repair until you are sure the leak is fixed and your ceiling has dried completely! Then go to your local
paint store or house improvement center paint dept. and look for an aerosol can labeled "Stain waterproofing ceiling paint" or thing
close to that. Two brands I cognize of are "Kilz" and "Zinsser". It wish be ready-made to spray straight up and only comes in one color.
Hopefully, the color wish be a nice match for your ceiling tiles.
While you are buying you may likewise want to buy several of the blue masking tape. It price much than standard masking tape, but
comes off once
you are done, without effort adhesive behind or propulsion
thing
off once
it peels away.
At home, mask the area you plan to spray and put an old sheet or thing
on the floor. Then follow the directions on the
can to do the actual spraying. Two light coats with adequate drying time between them is better than one heavy coat.
In most cases the color of the new area wish be close enough to the old that no additional overcoat
is needed. The fact is,
people rarely
look up. With the actually obvious stain gone there wish be nothing to draw the eye to what is probably a really
subtile difference in color.
The repair represented
here wish cover water stains on ceiling tiles or sheet anywhere, not simply in mobile homes.
Just about the author:
The Mobile House Doctor (http://www.MobileHomeDoctor.com/) has been providing mobile house repair information since 1999. There are much than 100 pages of proposal
to help mobile house owners repair their homes. Directions are written
so readers with little repair and renovation experience can be confident they can do the activity themselves.
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