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PAINTING BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MERIT BADGE SERIES

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“Enhancing our youths’ competitive edge through merit badges” Painting

1. Explain the proper safety procedures to follow when preparing surfaces and applying coatings. 2. Do the following: (a) Explain three ways that coatings can improve a surface. (b) Explain where you would apply enamel , flat paint, stain, and varnish, and explain the importance of sheen. (c) Tell why each is best for these uses. 3. Prepare and paint two different surfaces using patching materials or caulking and the proper primers and topcoats. Suggested projects include an interior or exterior , a door, a piece of furniture, a wall or floor, a porch rail, or a fence. Your counselor must preapprove the projects. 4. Prepare and paint an item using harmonizing that you have selected using the wheel in the Painting merit badge pamphlet. 5. Show the right way to use, clean, maintain, and store painting equipment. 6. Explain the importance of ladder safety, personal hygiene, and the use of per- sonal protective equipment when painting. 7. Explain some of the environmental and health issues concerning removing paint, applying paint, and discarding old paint. 8. Find out about career opportunities in the painting . Discuss the training and experience required, and explain why this profession might interest you. .Painting Resources

Painting Resources

Scouting Essential Paint Techniques: Improving Home Repairs and Safety merit Your Home With Paint Inside and badge pamphlets Out. This Old House Books, 2000. McElroy, William. Painter’s Handbook. Visit the Boy Scouts of Craftsman Book Company, 1988. America’s official retail website Painting and Decorating Craftsman’s (with your parent’s permission) Manual and Textbook. Painting at http://www.scoutstuff.org for and Decorating Contractors of a complete listing of all merit America, 1995. badge pamphlets and other helpful Scouting materials Sloan, Annie. Quick and Easy Paint and supplies. Transformations: 50 Step-by-Step Ways to Makeover Your Home for Next to Nothing. CICO Books, 2015. Books Starmer, Anna. The Color Scheme : Becker, Holly, and Joanna Copestick. Inspirational Palettes for Designing Decorate: 1,000 Professional Home Interiors. Firefly Books, 2012. Ideas for Every Room in Your Home. Travis, Debbie, and Barbara Dingle. Chronicle Books, 2011. Debbie Travis’ Decorating : Better Homes and Gardens. Decorative More Than 65 Paint and Paint Techniques and Ideas, 2nd ed. Finishes for Every Room in Your Better Homes and Gardens, 2009. Home. Clarkson Potter, 1999. Donegan, Francis. Paint Your Home: Wilbur, C. Keith. Homebuilding and Skills, Techniques, and Tricks of the Woodworking in Colonial America. Trade for Professional Looking Chelsea House Publishers, 1997. Interior Painting. Reader’s Digest Association Inc., 1997. Eiseman, Leatrice. Colors for Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors. Capital Books, 2000.

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Organizations and Websites The IUPAT is a labor union that helps ensure safe working conditions and good American Coatings Association wages and benefits for its more than Website: http://www.paint.org 160,000 members. The website provides The ACA is a nonprofit organization an extensive history of the union, union “working to advance the needs of the news and events, information on training paint and coatings industry and the and education in the trades, updates on professionals who work in it.” Its website current political and community affairs, provides information about proper and links to district and regional offices paint disposal, as well as technical and across the country. educational materials. Kelly-Moore BEHR Website: http://www.kellymoore.com Website: http://www.behr.com National Center for Construction This paint company’s Internet site pro- Education and Research vides helpful links that offer such things Website: http://www.nccer.org as how-to questions and answers and a The NCCER develops and publishes stan- calculator that estimates the amount of dardized construction and maintenance paint needed for a particular project. curricula, safety programs, management Better Homes and Gardens education, industry materials, and Website: http://www.bhg.com/ craft skill assessments. decorating/paint/decorative-painting/ National Lead Information Center This site provides tips and techniques U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for creating decorative wall Website: http://www.epa.gov/lead/ and . forms/lead-hotline-national-lead- Environmental Protection Agency information-center Website: http://www.epa.gov/lead/ This arm of the Environmental Protection pubs/renovation.htm Agency provides painting professionals This site explains the EPA’s Renovation, and the general public with information Repair, and Painting rule that applies to about lead hazards and their prevention. companies working on certain projects The Old House Web that disturb lead-based paint. Website: http://www.oldhouseweb.com Handyman Wire This site gives “old-house enthusiasts” Website: ideas and advice on many home http://www.handymanwire.com improvement tasks, products, This site offers “expert advice and help and suppliers. for do-it-yourselfers” and allows users to post questions to experts. International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Website: http://www.iupat.org

78 PAINTING .Painting Resources The Paint Institute Acknowledgments Website: http://www.paintquality.com Thanks to Barbara Richardson and The Paint Quality Institute was founded Jerry Glica of Glidden Professional to educate “consumers, contractors, and (formerly known as ICI Dulux Paints), retailers on the advantages of using the Cleveland, Ohio, for their assistance highest quality paints and coatings.” The with the traditional color wheel found website contains a wealth of information in this pamphlet. on safety, paint ingredients, and decora- Thanks to The Sherwin-Williams tive techniques. Company for use of its safety data Painting and Decorating Contractors sheet on page 25. of America The Boy Scouts of America is grate- Website: http://www.pdca.org ful to the men and women serving on The official website of the Painting and the Merit Badge Maintenance Task Force Decorating Contractors of America is a for the improvements made in updating resource for the professional painting this pamphlet. contractor and the home do-it-yourselfer as well. This Old House Website: http://www.thisoldhouse.com

The Boy Scouts of America is grateful to Charles “Chuck” Mann IV, Chas. F. Mann Painting Company, Toledo, Ohio, for his assistance with revising the Painting merit badge pamphlet. This dedicated Scouter is a former president of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America. The BSA also is thankful to PDCA members Paul Corey, Mike Sanford, Mike Ausherman, and Ken Anderson.

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