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My name is Ryan Parker with Parker Home Renovations in New Braunfels, Texas and today I am going
to teach you how to match old paint. Okay, the first thing you are going to need to know;
you are going to need to get up in the attic or in the garage and try to find an old paint
can of some sort and hopefully it will have a label or a color swatch or anything like
that around it to where you can bring it in and get it matched. However, many times this
is not the case. Many times you can't find the paint can or anything else to compare
the color to so what you will have to do. You will have to go to the painted area and
you will have to cut out a sample on the wall. Usually a 4X4 sample will work but if you
have something, a piece of loose sheet rock or anything like that on the wall you can
actually cut it off like I did here and it has the color on it. Now, what you want to
do is you want to run down to any hardware store that sells paint and you want to bring
it down to them and you want to get them to color match that piece. Now, you need to tell
them if it's a semi-gloss, a satin or a gloss paint. Usually they can tell by the paint
sample though. Now, you will have to identify whether it's a water based paint or if it's
an oil based paint. How you do that is you get denatured alcohol and you rub the denatured
alcohol on the paint and if the paint gets gooey it's a water based product. If it does
not get gooey it's an oil based product.