| Hair Cracks |
Hair Cracks
This usually refers to the very fine cracks which occur in plaster or cement rendered walls and which are often not seen until the surface is being painted. These cracks are too fine to fill and one solution is to apply lining paper and finish with wallpaper. On external walls the use of an aggregate type coating will often give satisfactory results,
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| Half-Drop Match |
Half-Drop Match
Patterns appear to run diagonally across the wall in such a way that every other strip is identical at the ceiling line. It takes two strips of wallpaper to complete the pattern horizontally.
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| Handprinted Wallpaper |
Handprinted Wallpaper
Wallpapers that are printed by hand by forcing inks through a screen.
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| Hard Dry |
Hard Dry
This term is normally used to denote that the paint has dried without "tack" or "softness". In the case of primer or undercoat, a hard dry surface is one which can be rubbed down without undue clogging of the abrasive paper and which can be safely overcoated.
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| Hard Gloss |
Hard Gloss
General term for an oil/varnish bound paint... originally used to distinguish such paints from those based soley on a drying oil.
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| Hardness |
Hardness
The degree of pressure a material will withstand without becoming deformed or scratched.
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| Hardwood |
Hardwood
Trees that have broad leaves (in contrast to conifer or softwoods). The term has no reference to the actual hardness of the wood. Examples are: - Oak, Maple, Ash, Beech and Walnut.
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| Heading |
Heading
The top edge of a curtain that forms a ruffle when the curtain is on the rod.
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| Hiding Power |
Hiding Power
The ability of paint to hide or obscure a surface colour over which it has been uniformly applied. Hiding power is provided by the paint's pigment(s).
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| Holding Primer |
Holding Primer
A primer formulated for use a temporary protective coating for blast-cleaned steel.
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| Holidays |
Holidays
In the paint trade, 'Holidays' is a term used to define a small area missed during the application of a paint coating, e.g. where, during the application of a gloss paint, a small area has not been undercoated.
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| Hot Surface |
Hot Surface
In the painting sense this denotes a highly absorbent surface which tends to take up the paint very rapidly.
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| Hue |
Hue
The attribute of a colour that determines whether it is red, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc.
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| Hungry |
Hungry
Almost a synonym for "hot" and indicates a porous surface that quickly absorbs paint. It is sometimes used to describe the appearance of a paint film that has been affected by excessive porosity of the surface beneath. Alternatively, the term "straved" may be used.
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