Flashing
A visible difference in sheen or reflected appearance between areas of a painted surface, making a patch, overlap, or touch-up stand out from the surrounding finish.
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A visible difference in sheen or reflected appearance between areas of a painted surface, making a patch, overlap, or touch-up stand out from the surrounding finish.
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14 entries for “Flashing”
Flashing is an uneven appearance in the sheen of a painted surface.
Field practiceWe have found flashing and uneven spray application.
Field practiceA wall may look fine at first, then show flashing several hours later when the sun has moved and the reflection changes. If flashing remains in the dried finish, we coat the entire wall again.
Depending on sheen and visibility, a local correction may flash. I typically recoat from natural break to natural break to obtain a uniform appearance. Allow proper drying and inspect again before accepting the repair.
Check joints, windows, doors, flashing, penetrations, roofs, and gutters for plausible water-entry paths. Compare those observations with the failure pattern.
After drying, inspect for uneven coverage, missed spots (holidays), flashing, and tannin bleed-through. Assess the complete area and transitions, not only the center of the siding boards.
Losing the wet edge can leave visible overlaps or uneven sheen when an area begins drying before the adjoining area is painted.
After the second finish coat dries, I walk the job with a work light. I look for missed spots, uneven cut-ins, roller marks, flashing, and differences in sheen. Satin and semi-gloss deserve particular attention.
Roof leaks, failed flashing, and loose building components require their own repairs.
If a touch-up leaves flashing, use Diagnosing and Correcting Paint Flashing to plan a uniform finish across the appropriate natural breaks.
Pay close attention to repair transitions, coverage, cut-ins, roller marks, and uneven sheen.
Inspect during application for runs, holidays, bubbles, flashing as it becomes apparent, pinholes, and missed crevices.
Look for missed areas or holidays, uneven coverage, roller marks, patch outlines, and differences in sheen or flashing. Inspect the final dried coat under the work light and the room's normal lighting, from more than one angle.
Field practiceI spot-coat the repair, then recoat the entire door to avoid flashing.
Look for missed spots, uneven cut-ins, roller marks, flashing, and inconsistent texture or sheen.
Inspect again after drying for coverage, flashing, and other remaining defects before accepting the work.
I typically paint from natural break to natural break to avoid flashing.
Inspect the result while there is still time to correct the tool choice. Look for excessive roller texture, uneven marks, shedding, and holidays in recessed areas. Check for flashing as the finish dries.
Inspection points: Look for runs, nibs, missed areas, uneven sheen, rough spray texture, and incomplete coverage in corners, profiles, and undersides.
In Joshua Christopher's spray-correction method, a light, even application of unthinned paint across the entire affected area, corner to corner, to address flashing.