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The short time it takes to pay some drop sheets to protect foundation plantings and sidewalks is repaid in the absence of lilyâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"valley suddenly appearing on your evergreens and sidewalk. WEATHER has to be deferred to. Surfaces must be completely dry and this means that in the morning you have to wait for the sun to warm up a surface and remove dew. Painters usually follow the sun around a house when painting. Don‘t paint in direct sunlight; the paint will dry too quickly and create problems that have to be addressed, like blistering or highly visible color changes where you have painted over dry paint when lapping. Penetrol is a deep penetrating oil made by Flood manufacturâ€" ing that dries to a tough, flexible finish, and when added to oil or alkyd base paints it makes the paint flow much better from the brush and extends the time of "wet edge" needed to make smooth laps as you move along a wall. 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