Wood

• Adhesion: - The property causing one material to stick to another.
• Barrier Coat: - A coat applied which separates the substrate from contact with the topcoats.
• Bleeding: - When a dye or color absorbs through to the top layer. This is due to a common solvency of the topcoat and the dye.
• Bloom: - A bluish haze of a film usually caused by insufficient drying time of the oil stain before topcoating.
• Blushing: - A white, milky cast in a film which is caused by trapping moisture into the film. Blushing can be prevented and eliminated by slowing down the drying of the coating by adding a blush retarder.
• Blush Retarder: - A reducer with slower drying properties.
• Body: - The thickness of viscosity of the coating while in liquid form.
• Bond: - The adhesion of or ability of two items to stick to one another.
• Bridge: - When a finish forms a layer over a crack or void.
• Burn-in: - Method of filling a defect in wood using a hot knife and a Burn -In Stick of resin or shellac.
• Coat: - The act of applying a coating to a surface.
• Coating: - Any material applied to a surface leaving a protective layer on that surface. e.g. lacquer, polyurethane, vinyl, acrylic, butyrate, Danish or drying oils, and shellac are all types of coatings.
• Cold Checking: - the cracking of a finish due to exposure to cold temperatures.
• Crawling: - When a coating applied tends to flow away from areas leaving them uncoated. This is usually caused by grease or oil contamination of the surface to be coated.
• De laminate: - The separation of layers due to lack of intercoat or substrate adhesion.
• Distressing: - Fly speck spotting (and/or other age marks) in the finished surface or on the substrate.
• Dye: - A coloring material that dissolves completely in a system very transparent.
• Dry Hard: - The elapsed time at which a coating has reached its optimum hardness
• Fading: - The loss of color due to exposure to sunlight.
• Fast to Light: - A color which is not significantly affected by exposure to sunlight.
• Fish Eye: - Pock marks or craters that show up on finished surface when silicone is present.
• Flash or Flash-Off: - The point at which a sprayed coating stops flowing or leveling, premature flash causes orange-peel when the atomized droplets do not flow into a completely flat and even film.
• Flash-Off Control Solvent: An addative that extends the wet time or "flash" of a sprayed or brushed coating.
• Flash Point (Flamability): - The temperature at which a material will ignite when exposed to a source of ignition.
• Flood: - The act of very heavily applying a coating to the substrate.
• Flow: - The fluid sheeting and leveling of a coating.
• French Polish: - A shellac base coating which is applied by manually "padding" it onto the surface.
• Glaze: - An oil based pigmented treatment which is applied between lacquer coats to accent or give a grained effect.
• Gloss or Sheen: - The shininess or reflectability of a surface.
• Holiday: - An uncoated area of a coated surface usually missed unintentionally.
• Incompatible: - Used in reference to coatings and/or stains which are not capable of being mixed with one another.
• Leveling: - The act of applying a coat which will smooth out a previously rough (orange peeled) coat.
• Lifting: - The softening and repenetration of a previous coat resulting in anything from an "orange peel"to a "stripping" effect. This is usually caused by applying strong solvented coating over a curing type coating (curing type coating would be catalytic lacquer, urethane lacquer, polyurethane and enamels.)
• Non-Volatile: - The solid material which is left after total solvent evaporation.
• Nitrocellulose: - The primary resin material used in making lacquer.
• Opaque / Opacity: - The degree of hiding of a pigmented coating. The opposite of transparent.
• Orange Peel: - A rough surface of a film similar in appearance to the skin of an orange. This is usually caused by spraying in high heat, draft or a material that is too thick or heavy in viscosity.
• Pigment: - A finely ground, insoluble powder which contributes color to a coating - usually very color fast.
• Pinholeing: - The appearance of numerous small holes in a film, usually caused by bubbles due to high heat drying of the coating.
• Primer: - A coating which is first applied to a bare surface.
• Reducer / Thinner: - To add solvent in order to thin a material to a workable thickness (viscosity).
• Sanding Sealer: - A lacquer or other coating formulated to give better filling and sandability than the topcoat products.
• Substrate: - The surface or material to be coated.
• Transparent: - Clear enough to see through.
• Translucent: - Allows light to pass through but not clear enough to see through.
• Viscosity: - The thickness of a coating material in its liquid form.
• Volatile: - The solvent portion of a coating.
• Washcoat: - Very thin coat of shellac or sanding sealer or coating.
• Water White: - A term used to describe the color of a coating in its liquid form. (Water white -- meaning as clear and colorless as drinking water.)

Should I paint the wood ceilings in my older home? 

Are you living in dark, old and dreary rooms of wood? Dark wood baseboards, wood windows, wood trim, wood doors, wood casings, wood overhead beams etc is all you see. The look of dark wood is dating your home? Maybe you are thinking about buying a house that you love and are wondering if you can paint the wood? 

Brighten up your house and paint old wood ceilings, beams and trim!