[n.894]

Hmm just had a thought.. white patches... blue trouble light... anyone remember disco? lmao
Cheers

 

[ProWallGuy]

I found a solution. Saw this in an issue of Walls & Ceiling magazine that came today. Check it out!

 

[nEighter]

that's awesome PWG! Looks like we were on the right track... Wonder what that gel is made of..

 

[Last Craftsman]

I found a solution. Saw this in an issue of Walls & Ceiling magazine that came today. Check it out!

Cool. If the UTCs dont work I will get that.

I want to have some colrant that is red, and some that is blue, that way if I ever run into red or blue walls, I will just use the opposite.

Of course red and blue always contrast white and all other colors, so the two should do it.

Thanks for finding that link.

 

[Workaholic]

I found a solution. Saw this in an issue of Walls & Ceiling magazine that came today. Check it out!

Four years later, have you guys ever used the stuff? I tried it this year and it worked well.

http://paulatuberville.wix.com/never-miss#!about02

 

[SouthFloridaPainter]

http://youtu.be/7JzN2JsEJaE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7JzN2JsEJaE

 

[6126]

I found a solution. Saw this in an issue of Walls & Ceiling magazine that came today. Check it out!

Cool. I signed up for a subcription to "Walls and Ceilings" magazine :thumbup: As for the topic? I've been on a few large commercial jobs where the wall color was pretty much a dead match to the spackled areas. We used to use red food coloring (spackle came out pink) and never had a problem with it bleeding through. We have also had the paint store tint our spackle, but we were going through cases of the stuff. Now a days I just use blue tape.

 

[TrueColors]

Universal tints. I will add a bit of yellow if im patching over high value Colors .

 

[aaron61]

Food coloring

 

[ROOMINADAY]

I bring a pop bottle to the paint store and get them to fill me up with tint! I have Gennex and and now a few old cans of universal tint since they dropped all the glycol tints in favour of a Gennex. I have tinted full batches of mud/ bond in new homes that are done in stages so we can see what has been 2nd and 3rd coated.

 

[straight_lines]

Maybe add a bit of chalk used for chalk/line markers? It comes in red, blue, or yellow.

I taught this trick to one of my new helpers Friday. Added some blue chalk the filler, and explained its to make the filler clearly visible. White one white is really easy to miss.

 

[Gough]

I bring a pop bottle to the paint store and get them to fill me up with tint! I have Gennex and and now a few old cans of universal tint since they dropped all the glycol tints in favour of a Gennex. I have tinted full batches of mud/ bond in new homes that are done in stages so we can see what has been 2nd and 3rd coated.

Same here. We used to carry a set of UTCs in squeeze bottles, but now we get some Gennex from the paint store.

 

[Gough]

I taught this trick to one of my new helpers Friday. Added some blue chalk the filler, and explained its to make the filler clearly visible. White one white is really easy to miss.

If I recall correctly (it's bound to happen once in a while), blue is a good choice, but we've had red chalk bleed through WB paints.

 

[straight_lines]

Yea I haven't had any problems with blue, and black. Just as long as its a small amount. I think it could cause problems hiding if it were to concentrated.

It begs the question why doesn't the filler/mud come already slightly tinted?

 

[Gough]

Yea I haven't had any problems with blue, and black. Just as long as its a small amount. I think it could cause problems hiding if it were to concentrated.

It begs the question why doesn't the filler/mud come already slightly tinted?

I thought someone was making that...USG??

 

[Oden]

Yea I haven't had any problems with blue, and black. Just as long as its a small amount. I think it could cause problems hiding if it were to concentrated.

It begs the question why doesn't the filler/mud come already slightly tinted?

I don't know what brand it is but one drywall outfit I've been following after for a while has been using blue colored mud for their Touchups. It comes blue in the can and it is a PITA because it is too dark. They sand and there is blue dust everywhere. I hate following that outfit now, It's much better to get with the taper, give them a little tint(raw umber is my preference) and they bang it up in their touch up mud.

 

[paratrooper]

Blue chalk like powder works very well. The red bleeds through water based paint.

 

[6126]

Blue chalk like powder works very well. The red bleeds through water based paint.

Thats good to know. :thumbsup:

 

[TJ Paint]

If one didn't want to tint spackle or mud, this could be a solution.

 

[Xmark]

I use food coloring dyes. yellow chalk or paint tints can also be used.