Applying top-quality dry erase paint differs from the way traditional latex wall paint is applied. It involves specific techniques to ensure you achieve a perfect installation and experience ten or more trouble-free years of regular use when your dry erase surface is properly erased and maintained. Some significant factors to consider when making your application are discussed in this article.
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Top-quality dry erase painted walls
are perfect for increasing productivity in business offices, retail
shops, and other commercial settings, and they can be just as effective
in the home. Since they offer durable, convenient writing surfaces for
countless household applications, dry erase walls can make family
interactions smoother and thus help activities and tasks get done on
time and with greater efficiency. Here are some of the many ways dry
erase surfaces can increase your family’s productivity by offering a
simple, effortless means of communication for everyone to use.
Create Easily Updated Family Grocery Lists
Converting one of the walls in your kitchen, family room, or other
space into a dry erase surface can be helpful for writing down family
grocery lists. There you can record items to be purchased along with the
quantities and brands your household prefers. Anyone can add to the
list when they find that the pantry or fridge is out of stock on certain
items or if they want to buy specific foods or beverages. A dry erase
wall in the kitchen can also be a handy place for family members to
write ideas about favorite meals to prepare and recipes for foods they’d
like to enjoy someday.
Post a Schedule of Daily Household Chores
A dry erase painted wall is also an excellent substitute for the
refrigerator door to post schedules of daily chores. To enhance your
family’s productivity in completing chores, a list of regular
assignments is a must-have tool. And the vast surface of a dry erase
wall allows you to write in large letters that can be viewed by
everyone. Having a schedule of daily tasks posted on the wall makes it
easy to rearrange or revise the household agenda by simply erasing
inaccurate or out-of-date entries and posting new information when
needed. Also, with a daily chore schedule displayed in big letters on
the wall, your family will feel more motivated to be productive. Because
if specific tasks are left undone, others in the household may notice
the omissions and remind those responsible to do their duty.
Remember Appointments with a Dry Erase Wall Calendar
You can also create a highly visible and easy-to-use appointment
calendar on your wall. As every efficient manager knows, calendars are
essential for keeping track of appointments in business offices,
healthcare facilities, and other busy locations, and this is equally
true for the home environment. A large calendar displayed on a dry erase
wall makes tracking appointments much easier. You can add notes to your
calendar about upcoming engagements and quickly erase and update
entries when needed.
Coordinating your daily appointments with the assistance of a dry
erase wall calendar will help you stay focused on your most important
activities and keep your mind at ease. Also, compared to the small
confines of a paper calendar or a calendar on a framed whiteboard, a dry
erase wall calendar has many advantages.
For example, the large surface area of a dry erase calendar allows
you to input all of your essential appointments in big, easily read
letters and numbers. And if you need to make a revision, you can quickly
erase an entry and write in the updated data. Also, by creating an
hourly schedule, you can plan your appointments from the beginning to
the end of each day; and just like with a weekly calendar, if an
appointment needs to be postponed or canceled, you can promptly move it
to another time slot or delete it entirely. As an option, you might even
want to create a one-year calendar, for which dry erase walls are
perfect, as their large size allows you to input and delete long-range
appointments with ease.
You can create your calendar using a ruler or yardstick and a roll of
colored electrical tape, washi tape, or 1/8″ auto pinstriping tape (if
you want to have thinner lines). Pinstriping tape is generally available
at online retailers or your nearby auto parts store. Just draw the
template for your calendar with a low-odor dry erase marker and a
yardstick and then carefully apply the tape over your pre-drawn template
using the yardstick as a guide.
Do Your Special Occasion Planning with a Dry Erase Wall
Whether you’re organizing a small birthday gathering for the kids or
orchestrating a significant occasion with many guests, like a wedding or
family reunion, event planning is a huge undertaking. All types of
events, no matter how simple or complex, require meticulous preparation
and management to be successful. From calculating a budget to arranging
the activities, a dry erase painted wall can be your best friend and
helper as you plan for and work on the fine points and logistics.
It’s essential to take the following steps early in the planning
process to make working on your event as hassle-free as possible. Define your goals Calculate your budget Seek the help of family members and friends Choose the location and date Create engaging invitations Plan the program of activities Confirm who will be attending Arrive early n the day of the event and make sure everything is in order. In
this process, your dry erase wall can come in handy for defining your
goals, calculating your budget, listing potential helpers, brainstorming
locations and dates, designing invitations, planning the activities,
and listing potential attendees.
Create a Medication Schedule to Maintain Family Health
Having a dry erase painted wall in your home makes it easy to create
and update a medication schedule for family members to follow. On the
large canvas of your dry erase wall, you’ll be able to clearly display
the precise times when medications or supplements need to be taken,
along with how much to take. In this way, you’ll help avoid dosage and
timing errors and enhance intra-family communications to prevent memory
lapses and potential health issues.
After creating your medication schedule, you can input each dose to
remind yourself and others of times and amounts and thus ensure regular
consumption. Taking multiple medications daily can get confusing, and
mistakes or forgetfulness can have serious medical consequences. So, be
sure to use your schedule to keep track of all your family’s required
medications and supplements. You might also take a picture of the
schedule to share with doctors and emergency personnel.
A Bill Payment Schedule Can Help You Manage Debts
Keeping track of when to pay your bills each month can be
challenging, especially if the bills are due on different days. However,
you can easily remember your due dates if you create a payment schedule
to survey all of your bills and whether or not you’ve paid them. Creating
a checklist on your dry erase wall makes it simple to keep your
household bill-paying process on track and done in a timely manner. Just
write the list on your wall so that it’s readily available at all times
to refer to when household bills are due. Having the checklist written
out in large letters and numbers on your dry erase wall is much handier
than keeping a list on an easily lost piece of paper in a checkbook or
folder.
Handle Children’s Schedules with a Dry Erase Kids’ Calendar
Children’s schedules are among the trickiest parts of family life to
organize, but if you use a dry erase kids’ calendar to keep everything
straight, your days will flow much more smoothly. A kids’ calendar that
suits everyone’s needs may seem undoable, but coordinating various
schedules and transporting the children to their sports practices and
games becomes a snap when you create a giant calendar just for the
children on your dry erase wall. Just make the kids’ calendar according
to the directions presented above for the household calendar, and make
sure that each child has an assigned color of dry erase marker ink to
keep them sorted out when you read their entries.
The large attractive surfaces of top-quality dry erase painted walls
are perfect decorative additions to various parts of your home’s
interior space, from the kitchen to the kids’ room, to the garage, to
the living room. Besides their eye-catching appearance, dry erase walls
in your residence can also provide many other benefits, such as smoother
communication among family members and more significant opportunities
for creative expression and practical activities for both kids and
adults.
What’s more, premium dry erase paint may be applied to other surfaces
in your house, such as the refrigerator, the pantry door, dresser
drawers, the kitchen countertops, the workbench, the dining table, and
the home office desk. Below are some creative ideas for ways to decorate
and provide useful communication tools all around the house with
premium dry erase paint.
Dry Erase Paint Your Refrigerator to Create a Communications Center
Your refrigerator can take on a whole new identity as a
communications center that allows for large, easily seen text and
graphics to be posted and then erased when they’re no longer needed.
Gone will be the need to put up notes and lists with magnets on small
pieces of paper. When your fridge is coated in top-quality dry erase
paint, you can write in big letters and easily change the content with a
few swipes of a microfiber cloth. The chance to write in large letters
on the fridge’s dry erase surface will make it easier to leave
attention-grabbing messages about essential appointments, chores that
need to be done quickly, and other topics that your family members need
to know about and not forget.
Make a Childhood Whimsy Wall in the Children’s Room to Inspire Creativity
If you install top-quality dry erase paint in the kids” room, they
may be inspired to produce a large-scale art wall or “whimsy wall” and
have a lot of fun while enhancing their artistic skills in the process.
Dry erase walls tend to bring about an immersive, engaging, and mentally
stimulating experience for kids, so the original artwork they produce
on their whimsy wall is sure to be highly innovative and one-of-a-kind.
Having the kids express their whimsical, youthful natures on the wall
can promote creative ability that will be useful in their school work
and in other parts of their daily lives both now and in the future.
After the children fill their dry erase whimsy wall with art, you can
take pictures of their creative efforts to show to relatives and
friends and to remind the kids of the great work they did. In this way,
you’ll enhance their innate creativity and boost their confidence and
self-esteem in dealing with academic life and other challenges.
Make a Dry Erase Household Chore Chart to Motivate Your Family to Work
A clear, easy-to-read chart listing all of your family members’
regular chores is simple to make on the large canvas of a dry erase
painted wall. Such a chart will be a key element in helping your
household run smoothly and in keeping both interior and exterior areas
clean and well-organized.
The Master Household Chore Chart
Begin making your household chore chart with a master list of tasks
that need to be done, and then break the list down into individual lists
for each member of your household, using a different color of dry erase
marker ink for each person. In this way, you can employ color coding to
more easily keep track of everyone’s designated duties and divide up
the chores evenly so that no one family member has an excessive amount
of work to do to keep your house or apartment in tip-top shape.
On the master list of family chores, write down all of the work to be
done around the house and how often individual tasks have to be
completed. The list ought to include both outdoor and indoor jobs that
must be accomplished on a daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly basis.
If you prefer to use a pre-formatted document as a guide for this
purpose, you can search the internet for household chore checklists. On
these extensive online lists, you might notice tasks that you forgot to
put on your master chore list but that do need to be done regularly.
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly Chores
With respect to chores that should be completed every day, you can begin by listing items such as the following: Washing dishes Dusting Sweeping Vacuuming Recycling Cleaning bathrooms Feeding animal companions Doing laundry Preparing meals Weekly, monthly, and yearly chores should also be listed in this way on your dry erase wall. Weekly duties might include: Mopping the floors. Taking out the trash. Watering the house plants. Weeding the garden. Next,
you should list monthly tasks such as cleaning windows, bathing animal
companions, and vacuuming the drapes. Finally, yearly jobs such as
winterizing the house and pruning trees and shrubs should be listed.
Individual Household Members’ Lists
When you feel that you’ve finished forming your master chore list,
you can begin erasing items from that list and moving them over to
smaller individual lists for the various members of your household. In
dividing up the master list, it’s essential to keep in mind the ages and
capabilities of your various family members so as to avoid placing
overly high expectations on any one person. It would be best if you also
thought about splitting some chores into smaller tasks that can be done
by children who may not be able to carry out the whole job.
Dry Erase Paint Your Pantry Door for Multipurpose Use
You could also apply the white or clear version of premium dry erase
paint to a pantry door to provide your family with an easily accessed
surface for writing notes, making shopping lists and calendars, listing
kids’ pick-up times, leaving appointment reminders, and posting a host
of other information. In this way, combined with your dry-erase painted
refrigerator, your kitchen will become a multi-use communications hub
and creative space for the household that motivates the family to do
their chores, reminds everyone of important dates, and offers a showcase
for your family’s creative thoughts and images.
Dry Erase Paint Your Dresser Drawers and Closet Doors for Labeling
Dresser drawers and closet doors in your bedroom are also helpful
surfaces to coat with top-quality dry erase paint so you can organize
your clothes and remind yourself of where various items are located. On
these surfaces, you can label the contents and also note outfits, shoes,
and accessories that you want to wear on specific days or for special
occasions. In addition, these surfaces could be handy for writing down
clothes, shoes, and other items that you want to have dry cleaned or
repaired, to pass on to others, or to contribute to charity.
Dry Erase Paint Your Bar, Countertop, Work Bench, and Dining Table
The sky is the limit when it comes to the practical applications of
premium dry erase paint. So, besides the above-mentioned surfaces, you
can transform a countertop, a workbench, a bar in the den, a room
divider, a dining room table, or virtually any other smooth flat surface
into an attractive canvas for writing messages to family members,
note-taking during phone calls, and numerous other uses.
In addition, if you choose to create a dry erase look other than
white, you can apply the clear version of premium dry erase paint to a
surface as long as the original color is light enough to write on
legibly with a low-odor dry erase marker. In the kitchen, you can paint
the tabletop with white dry erase paint to hide the table’s dark wood
tone, and so create a paperless work and play area for all of your
family members to use and enjoy.
Premium dry erase paint
has many outstanding features that put it at the top of the rankings
among dry erase coatings on today’s market. One of these features is its
brief 48-hour dry time, which is highly beneficial to users in any
setting, from the home office to the elementary school classroom, to the
corporate headquarters. Dry time is an essential guideline in
establishing the quality of a dry erase paint brand. It can vary
anywhere from 48 hours for top-quality products, such as our water-based
coating, to seven days for lower-quality epoxy-based dry erase paints.
Lengthy dry times are uncharacteristic of any top-quality dry erase
paint. They’re also problematic for customers because they usually mean
that a business office, classroom, clinic, or other venue must be
vacated. At the same time, harmful chemical fumes are emitted during the
drying process. These fumes, known as volatile organic compounds
(VOCs), can put the health of those in the environment at risk and are a
serious source of air pollution. The main basis for our premium paint’s
speedy drying capacity is its superior water-based formula, which both
dries rapidly and offers an eco-friendly option to environmentally
harmful and slow-drying epoxies.
A Fast Dry Time Equals Less Downtime
In the home office, a quick dry time means less time spent worrying
about protecting your painted surface against pets, children, or dust
flying around the room as the paint is curing. This, in turn, means
getting back to your regular routine sooner rather than later. On the
contrary, many epoxy-based dry erase coatings have a four- to seven-day
drying period. During this time, a home office or other usable space
will be out of commission, a situation that can be inconvenient,
frustrating, and costly.
In a business or commercial setting, either large or small, whether
many offices are being painted or just one room, it’s again a
significant benefit to be able to use the areas sooner rather than
later. It’s also comforting to know that you won’t have to be concerned
about protecting your freshly applied dry erase surface from dust in the
air or people accidentally touching it, not knowing it’s wet. Since the
dry time for premium dry erase paint is a mere 48 hours, it’s easy to
plan ahead and arrange your schedule to include a slot for the paint
application to occur without loss of working hours. For example, if the
application is made on a Friday afternoon when your team members come
back to work the following Monday, your new dry erase wall will be dry
and ready to go. As a result, you won’t experience any unnecessary
downtime. This benefit also applies to schools, where a quick drying
time is crucial to a good result. If the dry erase paint is applied on
the weekend when students are gone, a 48-hour dry time ensures that they
won’t inadvertently touch the wet wall while in the classroom. This
also eliminates the possibility of dust being stirred up by the students
and affecting the quality of the finished surface.
Water Based Means Fast Drying and High Quality
Premium dry-erase paint’s extremely short drying period is due to its
unique water-based formula, which allows for a nontoxic, trouble-free,
and low-odor application along with rapid evaporation of the liquid
component. The advanced chemical process used to produce top-quality dry
erase paint is the result of many years of laboratory experiments and
ongoing improvements. We ultimately discovered a way to provide
customers with a highly durable, easy-to-erase, fast-drying, and
eco-friendly option to the other whiteboard paints available.
Premium Quality Paint Arose from Intensive Research and Development
Our company’s founders are expert faux-finishers with many years of
training and experience in applying dry erase coatings in diverse
settings. After testing all of the existing dry erase paints on the
market, they found them all to have one or more shortcomings, including
the following: · Difficulties with writing on and erasing the finished surface · The emission of hazardous, foul-smelling gases during application · An inclination to yellow or become stained over time · Problems with the application · A tendency to smear and smudge when erased · Bubbling during the application process · Faulty, irregular surfaces that affected writing and erasing · Spotting on the surface when erased (produced by the bubbling). Consequently,
since all of the dry erase paints that the founders tested proved to be
deficient in various ways, they set their minds to creating a
fast-drying, durable, environmentally friendly alternative that was easy
to write on and erase and that would retain its usefulness and
appearance for ten or more years of normal use.
A Long Dry Time Equals Low Quality and Excessive Downtime
The low-quality dry erase paints tested during this trial period were
typically epoxy based and required three to seven days to completely
dry. In the business context, this feature results in a long waiting
period when normal operations are not possible, workflow is disrupted,
and team energy is diminished. The toxic gases and unpleasant odors
given off by epoxy-based paints during the drying process prevent usual
activities from happening in the area where they’re installed. This
causes downtime and lost income for customers, who have to move to a
temporary workplace and often encounter unpleasant working conditions,
IT issues, longer commutes to work and disruptions in the daily
schedule. For these reasons and its many benefits, fast-drying premium
dry erase paint is the most intelligent and most cost-effective choice
to apply in any location, from a private home to a business office, to
an elementary school classroom.
Premium Water-Based Dry Erase Paint is the Best Option
A four-to-seven-day drying period is the average for low-quality dry
erase paints. This long dry time is caused by the epoxy-based formulas
that comprise lower-quality dry erase coatings, which are also highly
toxic during application. On the contrary, premium dry erase paint has
an eco-friendly water-based formula with virtually no odor and only
minimal amounts of VOCs, which can adversely affect humans, animals, and
the environment. VOCs occur at much higher levels in low-end
epoxy-based dry erase paints, contributing to their slow dry times,
toxic gas emissions, and disagreeable odor.
A short dry time is highly attractive to companies interested in how
long their dry erase surface will remain wet and thus impact the
day-to-day flow of business operations. Premium dry erase paint’s brief
drying period allows company business to go on with little or no
disruption. Hiring sessions, work projects, staff meetings, and customer
relations can all go on as usual. In fact, low-odor dry erase paint may
even be applied while work is going on. And once dry, the freshly
applied whiteboard surface can be used immediately and safely for an
endless range of activities.
The Science behind Low-quality Epoxy-based Paints
Scientifically speaking, epoxies are part of the aromatic family of
organic chemical compounds, which are highly subject to the harmful
effects of ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun and artificial lights.
Thus, epoxy-based dry erase paints are not naturally resistant to UV
light and require UV-blocking additives in their formulas. However,
these additives cannot completely prevent yellowing but can only slow it
down. For this reason, epoxy-based whiteboard-painted surfaces
ultimately become yellow and deteriorate through the impact of UV rays.
Thus, they have to be repainted when they get too unsightly or when
issues such as detachment of the surface, formation of a powdery layer,
or cracking occur.
Unlike epoxies, premium water-based dry erase paint can withstand
yellowing, peeling, cracking, and the other problems that epoxy-based
paints suffer from due to UV light exposure. Because they’re impervious
to UV light and so resistant to yellowing and degrading, our dry erase
painted surfaces can last for ten or more years of normal use without
needing to be replaced.
These quotes for July can be a part of your daily time for reflection. Write them down on your dry erase wall
and in your daily planner. Journal about them and add attractive
artwork, or memorize some of them to use as a kind of mantra when you
want food for thought or a mental pick-me-up.
Why July is the Best Month of the Year
“July is the best month of the year because it is a prime vacation
month with the best warm weather of the year. And 4th of July is the
best party of the year because it lasts all day. July is a month of fun
and celebration. And most especially, it is the month of kings and
queens.” – Yankyboy (via ng.opera.news)
“The weather in July is known for its heat, yet it is my favorite
time of year because of how warm it is. In the mornings, you do not even
need a jacket, and the nights seem close to the perfect weather. It is
the best time for night swimming and late-night drives with the windows
down.” – Angelina Pranger
“July is the prime month of summer, sandwiched between the other main
months of summer. The stormy June days are over, and nothing but long,
dry, hot days are ahead. July is prime time for heavenly days at the
beach or at the pool.” – Jill Augustine
“July allows for the water temperatures to finally not cause you physical pain from stepping into the cold ocean.” – Caroline Laurendeau
“There are no huge holidays in July, and you do not have to worry
about gathering the whole family or buying gifts for other people.
Instead, you can use your hard-earned money on vacations!” – Jill Augustine
“July is the best vacation month with the warmest weather of the year.” – Caroline Laurendeau
“July is the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar. As we’re at the
beginning of the second half of the year, it’s a great time to start on
a new foot. It’s also a great point to start working on any of those
New Year’s resolutions that you’ve put off attempting for the first half
of the year!” – Shash Wighton
“Welcome, July! In the remaining half-year, we must fly to reach high.” — Vaidesh Vardanth
“Summer often brings back nostalgic memories of days long gone. For
many years, July meant long, hot days where the sun stayed up late;
celebrating the Fourth of July with barbeques and fireworks; swimming,
bike riding, and playing outside.” – Sckylar Gibby-Brown
“Here we are … July. The days are hot and very long. It feels like every day should be an endless vacation.” – Julie Hage
“July first begins the second half of the year, which means you have
plenty of time to do amazing things before that annual calendar changes
to the next year.” – Julie Hage
“July is the month that lies directly in the middle of the summer.
The days are longer, the weather is warmer, and most people’s skin is
tanner unless you’ve been blessed with the ever-so-classic Irish skin.
The smell of SPF 30 is the new perfume, and your daily attire consists
of a bathing suit and your summer feet to help you get across the hot
pavement.” – Caroline Laurendeau
Why it’s Good to be Born in July “What’s the best month to have a
birthday? Making the case for July: it’s the first proper month of
summer, and this unlocks new possibilities: gardens, rooftops, swimming
pools, paddling pools, whatever.” – thetab.com
“July babies, science has found, are less likely to develop recurring
health issues, potentially due to July mothers being exposed to plenty
of seasonal sun during the months leading up to giving birth, as well as
the babies themselves catching plenty of summer rays during their
youngest, most formative months.” – Jonathon Rowe
“July babies are as sunny as their birth month. Researchers find a
correlation between babies born in July and their outlook on life later
on. It turns out that July babies have a higher rate of ‘sunny
dispositions’ and a lower risk of developing mood disorders including
depression as adults.” – happiestbaby.com
“Babies with July birthdays have been found to grow taller than those born in the fall or winter.” – Jonathon Rowe
“Research demonstrates that those with July birthdays often possess
especially positive life attitudes and, consequently, face a lower risk
of depression as adults.” – Jonathon Rowe
“Summer babies are already pretty lucky. They don’t have to worry
about their birthday parties being overshadowed by major holidays, plus
there’s all that gorgeous weather! But July babies are especially lucky.
July babies may have some advantages thanks to all that extra sunlight
giving them vitamin D in their tender first months, which helps them to
grow up healthier and even taller.” – happiestbaby.com
“July babies are known to be born comedians, so smiles won’t be far
behind, even on grumpy days. And, astrologically speaking, babies born
in July are known to be devoted family members.” – tinybeans.com
“People born in July always look at the brighter side of everything.
If there are a hundred things going haywire around them, you will see
them smiling at the one thing that might be going right. In fact,
research suggests that these people see a glass always half full and
have a tendency to be ‘excessively positive.'” – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
“Babies born in July are often ambitious but generous. They often
inspire others and tend to take charge in the workplace, all traits of a
good leader.” – tinybeans.com
“For reasons unclear, July folks appear to have some protection from
various diseases, including cardiovascular and reproductive disorders as
well as ADHD, asthma, and ear infections.” – tinybeans.com
Facts and Folklore about July
“July’s first birth flower, the larkspur, is a vivid annual that
blooms abundantly in the Northern Hemisphere and high-elevation areas of
the African tropics. Larkspurs grow from several inches to several feet
and in shades that have come to represent certain qualities: A blue
bloom embodies grace and dignity, purple symbolizes a first love, white
stands for joy and rebirth, and pink signifies classic romance.
Larkspurs of all colors have long been considered sources of positive
energy.” – Jonathon Rowe
“If you’re doing everything right, then crops of corn are meant to be
‘knee-high by the fourth of July.’ It’s also in July that crop circles
start to appear in fields of corn.” – Shash Wighton
“If ant hills are high in July, the coming winter will be hard.” – The Old Farmer’s Almanac
“If you live in the northern hemisphere, you might not like July.
It’s hot, and it’s uncomfortable, but that’s just how summer is.
Wherever in the world you live, though, rejoice – the year is halfway
over already!” – Shash Wighton
“If the 1st of July be rainy weather, it will rain more or less for three weeks together.” – Anonymous
“Ne’er trust a July sky.” – The Old Farmer’s Almanac
“Whatever July and August do not boil, September cannot fry.” – The Old Farmer’s Almanac
“Traditionally, July tends to have one of the highest birth rates and some of the most common birthdays are in July.” – happiestbaby.com
“July 3rd marks the beginning of the “Dog Days of Summer,” the period
between July 3rd and August 11th when the Sun occupies the same region
of the sky as Sirius, the Dog Star. It was once believed that due to the
star’s position at this time of year, it somehow conspired with the Sun
to make the days hotter!” – The Old Farmer’s Almanac
“The month of July is named after famed Roman leader Julius Caesar,
whose birthday is attributed to July 12 or 13, but he’s not the only
influential person who celebrated a birthday in July. Other notable July
babies include Nelson Mandela (July 18), Princess Diana (July 1),
Jackie Kennedy (July 28), and four past US presidents – John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald Ford, and George W. Bush.” – mother.ly
Key Features of Premium Dry Erase Paint’s Pro-Grade Ten-Year Warranty
A Top-quality dry erase paint
ReMARKable comes with a full ten-year warranty against yellowing,
cracking, and peeling. This guarantee is based on the superior
ingredients, state-of-the-art manufacturing methods, and strict quality
control measures used to produce the paint. The following article
presents some specific details about how premium dry erase paint
compares to other brands on the market that are epoxy-based and thus
prone to many problems both during and after application.
Yellowing is an Issue with All Brands of Epoxy-based Dry Erase Paint
Epoxy-based dry erase paints invariably become yellow over time, even
when they contain chemicals that are designed to inhibit the action of
ultraviolet (UV) light, the key contributor to yellowing in epoxy-based
coatings and paints. Depending on the specific brand of epoxy-based
paint that’s used, it may yellow quickly, or it may take several years
to turn yellow, but it will definitely do so in time. In these cases,
the hardener in the paint is the source of the yellowing. Epoxy-based
dry erase paints even turn an amber color when they’re exposed to no
light at all. However, being one of the only products of its kind on the
market that features a non-epoxy formula, premium dry erase paint
functions differently after application and does not yellow, crack, or
peel.
Tests Show that All Epoxy-based Paints Yellow when Exposed to UV Light
Extensive tests on yellowing have been conducted with samples of
several epoxy-based dry erase paint brands along with a sample of
top-quality ReMARKable paint. All of the samples were rolled out onto a
flat surface with a paint roller, labeled, and then placed in a QUV
machine, which simulates the effects of sunlight through the use of
fluorescent UV lamps. The machine speed-dried the paint samples for a
time period equivalent to 100 hours of daytime ultraviolet light
exposure.
After this process was completed, the paints were examined, and
significant yellowing was apparent in all of the epoxy-based paint
brands tested. However, the ReMARKable paint sample showed no signs of
yellowing and remained perfectly clear at the completion of the
experiment. The yellowing of epoxy-based dry erase paint may not be
immediately noticeable if the paint has been applied to a wall and there
are no white-colored items nearby to compare it to. But all epoxy-based
dry erase paints do yellow over time, and the discoloration will
ultimately become darker and more apparent with each passing year.
Cracking is Also Common with Epoxy-based Dry Erase Paint
The extreme hardness and lack of flexibility in dried epoxy-based
paints can also lead to the micro-cracking of a dry erase surface. All
walls shift slightly over time, and when an epoxy-based paint or coating
on a wall becomes too hard, this shifting action can eventually lead to
cracking, which in turn will lead to the lifting and peeling of the
painted surface, known as de-lamination. As a result, it’s essential for
a dry erase painted wall to have a little bit of flexibility. It should
feel like a hard, smooth shell but should also have enough inherent
elasticity to be able to breathe and move with the substrate it’s on so
that it won’t crack and later peel.
Rigorous Quality Control Measures Guard Against Cracking and Peeling
This type of flexibility is one of the many outstanding features of
premium dry erase painted walls and is the basis for the ten-year
warranty against cracking and peeling that comes with every premium dry
erase paint kit. Because of the strict quality-control procedures
conducted at the factory, premium dry erase paint is always assured of
being flexible enough to withstand cracking and peeling for ten or more
years of regular use. During the testing process, sample amounts of
each batch of dry erase paint produced in the factory are rolled out
onto a flat surface five different times and given batch numbers. Then
the samples are allowed to dry for 48 hours and carefully tested to
ensure that each batch of paint is of the proper quality and flexibility
level before being bottled and shipped to our customers. After testing,
the batch numbers are recorded in the company’s computer database, so
when a customer buys a paint kit, the individual batch number is known
and on record. In this way, the high quality of each batch of premium
dry erase paint is assured. Thus, when customers call and have questions
or issues regarding the paint’s application or use, their dry erase
paint’s batch number can be referenced.
Cracking in Epoxy-based Dry Erase Paint Causes Issues with Staining
Micro-cracking in an overly complex and inflexible epoxy-based dry
erase painted surface may not be noticeable until the surface is written
on with a dry erase marker. At such times, the marker ink will settle
into the micro-cracks, become visible as stains when the surface is
erased, and be impossible to remove with an eraser or cleaner. In such a
case, the only way to get the dry erase marker ink off of the surface
is to sand it down below the depth of the cracks until all of the ink is
removed. Then another coat or two of dry erase paint needs to be
applied.
The Pro-Grade Formula of Premium Dry Erase Paint is Fit for Anyone to Apply
Premium dry erase paint’s single formula is of the highest
professional-grade quality and is also suitable for homeowners and other
DIY users to apply. For this reason, the paint is purchased and
installed by both top universities, large corporations, health care
facilities, and other commercial operations, as well as by homeowners
and DIY painters – one formula is suitable for all types of users. This
is not true of the epoxy-based dry erase paint brands on the market,
which have one version for commercial use and another less durable
version for non-commercial use by homeowners and other
non-business-related customers.
Commercial-grade Epoxy-Based Paints Often Need to be Applied by Certified Professionals
With the commercial versions of epoxy-based brands of dry erase
paint, a special certification is often needed for application due to
their high toxicity caused by the large amounts of hazardous chemicals
or VOCs they contain. It’s can be unsafe to have non-professionals
handle paints containing large quantities of these chemicals. Also,
drying times tend to be longer for the commercial grades of epoxy-based
paints, making them less desirable to residential users and amateur DIY
hobbyists.
Besides these limiting factors, epoxy-based paints are also more
challenging to work with during application, as they tend to get
increasingly thick and viscous when exposed to air. This quality also
makes the professional installation of commercial-grade epoxy paints
necessary. In addition, the high toxicity levels of epoxy paints require
installers trained in wearing the appropriate face masks, in properly
disposing of the leftover product, and in other details of the
application process.
Applying Premium Dry Erase Paint Requires no Certification
By contrast, premium dry erase paint remains more fluid and easier to
roll on during installation than epoxy paints and so can be applied by
any homeowner or other person with basic painting skills. The paint is
of professional-grade quality yet is appropriate for DIY applications in
virtually any type of setting. For these reasons, premium dry erase
paint is shipped to and used by all kinds of customers around the world
for a wide variety of applications, both commercial and residential.
Non-pro-grade Epoxy Paints Require Two Coats and More Frequent Re-application
Another major drawback to epoxy-based dry erase paints is the fact
that their residential-grade versions tend to be less durable than their
commercial grades and require at least two coats for an acceptable
application. This feature results in the need to re-apply the paint more
often, and in turn, this leads to more time lost and more money spent
by customers.
