| Anonymous wrote: |
i also have seen many people speak of curing times, we talked to our supplier for paint, and although it could be different for different paints, we only have to have a 2 day old statue to paint it. |
Unless you are working with thin pieces in the midst of the Summer in a dry environment, or putting thin or hollow pieces in a drying booth I would not wait only 2 days after they are out of the mold to seal them.
The thicker the piece the longer it takes to express the water out through the porous material.
If you are staining the pieces it is a different story, because the item remains porous.
The other information is if you do not lock the surface of the whole piece, water can express it self out from the lowest point if unsealed in a cool environment or highest point if in a hot environment.
Other wise you will either get bubbles in your paint or worse cracks in your cement.
I only say this because we had to learn this the hard way a few years ago, from a very few customer returns (6 months after shipping on a specialty fountains done in an expediated manner)
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