paint and the drain

While washing ur painting instrement do you guys dump this (water with paint) material into the drain or collect it up in a bottle?

While washing ur painting instrement do you guys dump this (water with paint) material into the drain or collect it up in a bottle?

well clean up with water is more for acrylic paints, then for enamals use thinners, more cleaning dump it outside in the brush.

If you really want to flush the ACRYLIC paint, then mix it with A LOT of water. Paint:Water at least 1:10.
But usually the paint goes into contianers and it's delivered to special stores for decomposition.

icic thx guys Just dont want populute the my city before I do anything

Celebrate Earthday, dump it down the drain.

Celebrate Earthday, dump it down the drain.

awww man, i have always dumped minein the pile of old brush and dead grass. o well!!

Excess paint, cleanup leftovers, thinner, everything goes down the sink!

that's big pollution. If you are using enamels the pollution is 10 times greater.

Maybe funny but it's true (my experiance): Try pissing on the grass. For a week, always in the same spot. The grass will start too look like it's been burned.

You get similar effect if you throw thinner on the grass (but this is worse). But the whole darn thing then goes into the soil and from there to 'under water' and from there to your pipes again.

I keep my enamel's dirty thinner in an old bottle. It must evaporate then i'm left with crust which i throw away along with the bottle. The acrylic gets dilluted and poured down the laundry room's sink.

awww man, i have always dumped minein the pile of old brush and dead grass. o well!!


maybe thats why the grass is dead...

that's big pollution. If you are using enamels the pollution is 10 times greater.

Maybe funny but it's true (my experience): Try pissing on the grass. For a week, always in the same spot. The grass will start too look like it's been burned.

That's because it WAS burned...by the high acidity of your urine.

But why waste it when you can thin Tamiya acrylics with it and it makes a great replacement for Micro-Set...

Bill

p.s. Do NOT believe the last part of this posting ;-)>

be hind our garage is a our pile of brush and grass from yeard work, i just dump it there. yea if you dumb thinner in the lawn it dies.