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How to Determine if Existing Paint is Water- or Oil-Based

It's important to know whether your existing paint is water or oil-based. Learn how to quickly and easily determine this fact in this super short paint hack video.

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Women talking how to determine if existing paint is water or oil-based hand holds a bottle of rubbing alcohol hand holds cotton balls set of hands use bottle of rubbing alcohol to wet a cotton ball hand rubs cotton ball across door paints with red water-based paint hand holding cotton ball turns to show cotton has a red tinge to it hand swabbing a second door painted with red oil-based paint shows cotton has no red tinge set of hands holds two cotton balls one is tinged the other is not done Edwards logo
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