BioPaints Thinner – multipurpose magic!
You may know how great BioPaints Thinner is for diluting our oil-based products and for brush cleaning. It is hugely useful when de-greasing and prepping your woodwork for painting. But did you know it can also be used for a wide variety of chores around your home or business?
We’ve gathered some ideas from our staff and customers about how they use BioPaints Thinner:
- A Nelson café owner uses it daily to clean her windows. She writes her menu on the window and Thinner is a fast way to clean it off again.
- Suzanne uses it to remove stickers – and the gummy glue they leave behind.
- Kathryn fixed our squeaking doors – and brought a roller door mechanism back to life with the following lubricant mixture – Rice Bran Oil and 10% Thinner.
- Suzanne uses it to clean the wooden floors in the BioPaints showroom.
- Tina uses it to make a ‘replenisher’ for oiled and waxed furniture. She has used a variety of oils as the base- these have included avocado oil, walnut oil and BioPaints Tung Oil. Start with the oil then slowly add BioPaints Thinner to the mixture stirring constantly. Tina calls it her mayonnaise for timber. The two products emulsify on the mixing, just as in making a mayo.
- Artists use Thinner to dilute their oil paints and to clean their brushes. You can do this with the BioPaints Artists range too.
- Use Thinner to clean engines.
- Use it for general cleaning (but not on plastic) and don’t use it to thin water-based products.
Thinner can be recycled many times. Just decant off the sludge.
Try Thinner whenever you would normally use Turps.
Rags soaked in Thinner can ignite if they are left scrunched up, so soak them in water and spread them out to dry on a non-combustible surface – or, put the rags into an airtight container.
Send us your own ideas for using Thinner.
Prepping the BioPaints showroom floor. After sanding, Suzanne wiped the floor with Thinner to degrease it. The floor was left to air dry and then coated with BioPaints Hard Varnish.