How to fix white cabinets turned yellow
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Comments (19)Hi Inkfin: I post in Organic Rose forum, and saw the same problem when the nursery used FRESH PINE bark, at pH 4, as the growing medium for a young rose. The leaves turned almost white. I re-posted what you wrote: " I have been watering (rain water) everyday. This plant is in a well container having 50:50 peat moss and pine bark mulch." pH of rain water is 5.6, and pH of peat moss is 4. pH of pine bark mulch is lower than 4 when soaked in water. You got an EXTREMELY ACIDIC medium which result in "acid-burns" in your plant. A quick way to fix is to spread pulverized dolomitic lime (has both calcium & magnesium, at pH 9) ... that will balance the pH. Or use your city tap-water at pH 8.6 to correct the extremely-acidic environment. The good potting soil, the Pro-mix, has peat moss, or composted pine fines (less acidic), plus dolomitic lime (pH 9) and gypsum (neutral pH). See below link for the red-cabbage pH test I did in Organic Rose, which shows how acidic pine bark is. Fresh pine bark is even more acidic than peat moss, when mixed with rain-water. Optimal pH of blueberries is between 4.5 and 5.5 ... folks in Fig Forum tested pine-bark soaked in water, and it registered much lower than 4, plus killed a few plants. Here is a link that might be useful: Red-cabbage pH test of many samples...See MoreHELP!!! I turned white towels grey, and then yellow!! :-O
Comments (26)@ Rococo....Yellow is gone. I did three washes ranging between 160-200F. Combo and variance of Tide boost, British Ariel powder tablet and Grab Green. I think with continued hot washes and strong(ish) powder detergent with oxi bleach and a bleach activator...they might be ok! :)...See MoreWhite paint on stucco turning yellow
Comments (16)This is why you don't paint stucco. I know everyone does, but you shouldn't. Stucco is a cement product. It is porous. There are things in the pores of your stucco, and now they are coming out from underneath, because the vapor in your house is used to passing through unobstructed and now it can't. Now, if you do paint stucco(which you shouldn't), in order to have any chance of success, you need to have it cleaned, sealed, primed, and then painted, in that order. Congratulations, you now have painted stucco. If you ever want to repaint you are looking at a sandblast, and you have also drastically altered the vapor permeability of your house in an unknown fashion which can bring all sorts of headaches with it. Stucco should be recolored with a very thin sprayed on special mixture of pigment suspended in a cement. End of story. That is the only "right" way to do it. Painting it with latex is a series of compromises you shouldn't make....See MoreWhite oak stair caps stained to match floor turned yellow.
Comments (9)OK...first things first. Water based finishes (not oil modified = cheaper) do NOT amber over time. White oak has a history of TANNIN PULL when water based finishes have been used. White Oak tannin pull = light yellow+ green tints. The 'guy' who left his wood 'natural' used an oil based finish. I guarantee it. In the wood flooring industry the word 'natural' means "no stain + oil based finish". That is the 'natural look' of wood that 98.97% of wood professionals BELIEVE to be 'natural'. What you are describing is, in the wood industry, referred to as 'raw'. Which would work PERFECTLY with your wood flooring. Sadly, the words you used (not your fault...just the way you described raw looking wood as natural) are not the words used in the wood industry. The issue is the YELLOW. The 'ambering' is coming from oil based (aka. solvent based finishes that STINK to high-heaven) products. A full-on water based finish will NEVER amber. A WOOD WORKER will know this. A painter will not. Lacquer is a way of saying oil based. Oil based turns orange all by itself. The painter, by saying 'lacquer' is saying 'oil based' will not turn yellow. Which is completely false. Sorry but it is the truth (assuming the lacquer is an oil based finish). In short, you can have this redone by using a wood professional who KNOWS what the look is that you are after. They will need to know you WANT water based finishes (not oil, not oil modified) used. You WANT a sealant used to PREVENT tannin pull on white oak. You will pay for all of these high-end products and the cost of the redo. It is entirely possible to get this done using a wood working or a WOOD flooring professional (flooring guys HATE stairs...as in HATE being to soft a word...). My question becomes: why is a painter refinishing stairs? It is considered WELL outside their job description (despite their protests to the contrary!)....See MorePatricia Colwell Consulting
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