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  2. To fix peeling paint, identify the issue first, then ensure your substrate is prepared properly. Find the Cause Before fixing peeling paint, it's important to understand why your first attempt failed.

  3. Conservation and restoration of paintings - Wikipedia

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    Acrylic paintings require attentive preventive care. Due to the soft nature of the paint, it attracts and holds dirt and debris, creating difficulty when cleaning and resulting in darkening colors over time. Due to the characteristic of acrylic paint, varnishes will diminish top layers of the paint and affect the colors' vibrancy.

  4. Paintless dent repair - Wikipedia

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    A wide range of damage can be repaired using paintless dent repair as long as the paint surface is intact. Paintless dent repair may be used on both aluminum and steel panels. Common practical uses for paintless dent repair is the repair of hail damage, door dings, creases, body/feature line dents, and minor collision damage.

  5. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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    Impacts, shocks, and abrasions all can damage an object depending on their severity. This type of damage may come from natural events, transportation, or improper handling. Sudden movement, intense vibrations, and jolts to the artwork may cause cracks to any of its layers, tears to the canvas support, or cleavage separating the paint from its ...

  6. Indoor mold - Wikipedia

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    Mold is detectable by smell and signs of water damage on walls or ceiling and can grow in places invisible to the human eye. It may be found behind wallpaper or paneling, on the inside of dropped ceilings, the back of drywall, or the underside of carpets or carpet padding. Piping in walls may also be a source of mold, since they may leak ...

  7. Damp (structural) - Wikipedia

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    Dampness tends to cause secondary damage to a building. The unwanted moisture enables the growth of various fungi in wood, causing rot or mould health issues and may eventually lead to sick building syndrome. Plaster and paint deteriorate and wallpaper loosens. Stains, from the water, salts and from mould, mar surfaces. The highest airborne ...

  8. Self-healing material - Wikipedia

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    Self-healing materials are artificial or synthetically created substances that have the built-in ability to automatically repair damages to themselves without any external diagnosis of the problem or human intervention. Generally, materials will degrade over time due to fatigue, environmental conditions, or damage incurred during operation.

  9. Wood flooring - Wikipedia

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    This is an especially popular method for solid parquet flooring installations on concrete sub-floors. Additionally, engineered wood flooring may use the glue-down method as well. A layer of mastic is placed onto the sub-floor using a trowel similar to those used in laying ceramic tile.