WET WEATHER STAINS ON THE WALLS OR ON THE CEILING

  Heavy rain can cause leaks where you never have had leaks before. This is due to the saturation of water. When you have so much water getting in that it builds up and gets through.

 Realize if you have water damage inside you need to fix it outside where it is coming from and not to try and stop it on the inside. The important thing is to fix it properly so it will not happen again.

  This is usually a leak in the roof or where the rain gutter meets the house. And in some rare instances, by a leaking pipe in the ceiling or wall. Once you have the roof patched or the leak handled you now have a stain that needs to be taken care of.

  If the stain is on a painted wall or ceiling and you know the color, you just need to paint the stain first with an oil base primer (so the stain will not come through the paint), then paint it with the correct color. If you need to match the color then you can go to a hardware store that has a means to computer match paint and get paint matched that way. If you have a “cottage cheese” ceiling that has not been painted and is clean, it would be best if you got some white “Kilz” spray paint and spray the stain with that.

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