Quick Tip: How to Dispose of Old Paint
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- How do you get rid of old paint? Do you need to buy a commercial product or is there a homemade way to do it? In this video, I show you what the paint looks like after using both a paint hardener product as well as cat litter.
Gee, I never heard of that stuff. Cat litter seems to be useful for all sorts of things. Here you can take unused paint to the recycling centre to be passed onto someone who might want it. If it's past its best then they have the facilities to dispose of it safely too. Thanks Tom, that was an education for me.
In our area they charge to dispose of outdated paint that it still liquid. They'll take a couple of gallons at the dump, but it's a bit of a drive to the dump. If it's dry you can just toss it into the trash to be collected by the big blue truck. This is great information for us.
Interesting tips, Tom. I didn't even know that the big orange store sold paint hardener.
Last year when I cleaned up, I bought a cheap tarp from Harbor Freight. I poured the paint out on the tarp and left it to dry. This was a bit of trouble since I had to avoid the tarp area until the paint dried, but the cost was quite low and like you, I AM CHEAP. Thanks for the video.
Thats another way. The small packages from HD are actually convenient and cheap...but not free...so there's that :-) Have a great weekend. Tom
More plastic waste.....
No cat so I use the dollar brand kitty litter . Always keep some around and it was also perfect when my 275 gallon oil tank formed a weeping leak. I placed kitty litter in dollar brand lasagna pan under each drip. I've also used sawdust collected from my tablesaw.
Great tip! Thx.
Thank-you so much!
I had 3 partial cans of oil based enamel and stain. The cat litter didn't harden any of it. It just made it thicker. Still looking for a solution.
I would just mix portland cement with the water based paint. The cement will harden when it reacts with the water in the paint.
That's actually a pretty good idea. Thanks for the tip.
Thank you so much for this tip, Sir. Can i also use the same method with my clear acrylic emulsion? I accidentally spilled the can on the floor and wipe it with water. Now i have a bucket of it filled with mixed water and acrylic emulsion.
I would expect it to work. Don't know for sure. Couldn't hurt.
Surprised that your state doesn't have a hazardous waste drop off centre
Looked like 12 oz of paint to 16 oz of kitty litter. The final volume appeared to be 24 oz, but that's probably not right. can you guesstimate the volumes, please?
Would sawdust work at drying old laytex?
Probably so but not as quite as quick.
How do you dispose of the old paint? You showed how to dry it but you didn’t say what you did with it.
Throw it out with the regular garbage.
So .... how did you ACTUALLY dispose of the old paint?
I just pour it down the drain and let the city worry about it. Laughing as I do it.🤣
...which is why I don't drink my tap water... Thanks Bryan :-)
Why wouldn't you just use the paint? Paint something with it or give it away.
The reclaim place near me will not take open paint. After a couple years, old paint can thicken up and become clumpy. Also, if you just have a partial can, it may not be useful to anybody.
@@AlleyPicked So they won't take open paint, so they must take full tins, makes total sense go buy a tin of paint and then take it to the dump, you would be better just pouring it straight in a river with that logic lol