Show Modern Buildings Need New v Painting Methods If you are planning some outside e painting this summer summer summer-n a new house perhaps or a n garage woodshed workhouse workhouse work work- house etc It It is Important to realize that painting methods have changed rn radically In the last 20 O 0 years ears Berton Elliot points out in Better etter lames Homes aud nuel Gardens Twenty years ago says sas this authority authority author author- ity soft white pine was the only wood use used 1 in building and It was ns a n comparatively comparatively com com- simple matter to do n a good job of painting Today white pine Is used usell very er little and in its place are many kinds of lumber of vastly different different differ differ- ent characteristics Each requires a n different paint mixture although a rough classification can be made Into three groups groUlS In the first group are ure white pine poplar redwood white ce cedar ar and Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon cedar as well as ns lumber which has hns weathered for a u long time tune without paint protection The first coat or primer for such woo woods s should be reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re to a thin medium consistency with practically raw linseed oil with I Just a little turpentine added to Insure thorough penetration say about half halt I I pint to one pint of turpentine to one I gallon of oil One to two weeks should be nil allowed owed for dl drying I In the second group dIre are fir tir spruce red cedar an and such other woods a of a n similar nature which lIa have medium medium- I slow nb absorption qualities T The primIng priming prim- prim Ing coat cont for these woods must be reduced reduced re re- I to a er very thin consistency and penetration Into the fibers libels of th the tho wool wood stimulated b by the use of a large amount of turpentine Ordinarily about half turpentine and und three tel'S oil Is li about right In the final dual group are the woods yellow or southern pine and c cypress pless being two of the most outstanding outstanding out out- standing examples Penetration Into these woods must be forced with a liberal amount of turpentine The primer primer primer mer should he be mixed to a n very thin consistency I with h at nt least half the total amount of thinner used turpentine that Is Is half oil and half turpentine For the middle coat some turpentine I should always s 's be he used for it not only I helps to cut the gloss and make male a I hard hurd firm coating but It also assists I In further penetration Into the wood The ml middle dle coat should carr carry less liquid reducer oil and turpentine combined com corn than the priming coat The Tune final coat should hould always be a tt full rull oil all coat and und with very little If It u any turpentine tur tur- turpentine in It titus thus insuring a full oil oil- gloss gluss lu luster ter nn and producing an un elastic film tUrn that will best stand severe r exposure |