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I mentioned in another topic that I came to the shed one morning to find my brush cleaning pot frozen solid
Now whilst I haven't built up a large selection of paints yet I didn't want to lose the ones I already had, and clearly I'm making the assumption that freezing would damage them as it does with waterbourne acrylic car paint, so set about a solution.
First off I lined one of my plastic drawers with expanded polystyrene, and used some dividers I'd made previously.
Then the actual chest got wrapped in foam too. Since this is a shed the only acceptable fixing method was, of course, black duct tape
I've moved my other acrylics paints over to these drawers as well. I also put my lacquer & oils in here, not that they need the protection, but it's keeps all the wet stuff together.
And safely tucked up for the night
Also lined a cardboard box for the larger stuff that wouldn't fit in the drawers, like PVA, AB cleaner & thinners etc. This is before I had a big clean up and vacuumed the floor!
It's not pretty but it'll work, and only needs to see me through to the spring when I'll hopefully be knocking the new shed/workspace together, which will be properly insulated and have frost proof heating.
Now whilst I haven't built up a large selection of paints yet I didn't want to lose the ones I already had, and clearly I'm making the assumption that freezing would damage them as it does with waterbourne acrylic car paint, so set about a solution.
First off I lined one of my plastic drawers with expanded polystyrene, and used some dividers I'd made previously.
Then the actual chest got wrapped in foam too. Since this is a shed the only acceptable fixing method was, of course, black duct tape
I've moved my other acrylics paints over to these drawers as well. I also put my lacquer & oils in here, not that they need the protection, but it's keeps all the wet stuff together.
And safely tucked up for the night
Also lined a cardboard box for the larger stuff that wouldn't fit in the drawers, like PVA, AB cleaner & thinners etc. This is before I had a big clean up and vacuumed the floor!
It's not pretty but it'll work, and only needs to see me through to the spring when I'll hopefully be knocking the new shed/workspace together, which will be properly insulated and have frost proof heating.