Colour and Paint Faults
Colour coats and finishing paint
A DIY painter will often wet sand a colour coat before final spraying or polishing (depending on the finish required). This page describes each approach and offers some other tips for colour.
Colour coats are much more sensitive to technique than primer coats, so a a few more technique tips have been included on the page.
Paint faults and how to rectify them
Paint is very flexible - It's often possible to balance out time and material quantities against technique, and given enough time on a job a DIY sprayer might end up with a better finish than a professional has the time to achieve.
For the DIYer there will be the occasional disaster along the way, This page covers the normal disasters and offers advice about how to sort them out so that nobody will ever notice. From overspray to drips and flies, dust and orange peel.
