David B. Lytle's Profile

My name is David B. Lytle and I am the creator of Magically Magnetic Paint Additive. The additive is not magic as the name might imply. It is made from very fine metallic particles that when mixed with ordinary paint and painted on a non-metallic surface such as wood or a plaster wall, will make that surface attractive to magnets. Not all magnets will stick as well to a wall painted with magnetic paint as they may to your solid steel kitchen fridge door. Our magnetic additive and your paint only add a very thin layer of magnetically receptive particles to the surface. The particles don't dissolve in the paint, they only mix with the paint and the paint acts to hold the particles on the wall. When the paint dries, the paint shrinks and the particles don't. Therefore, the particles impart a slight texture to the surface that was not there before. We advise the use of a foam roller to apply the magnetic paint to the wall. This will give the smoothest results. We also advise using oil based white primer sealer paint to mix with our additive. Oil based paints are the best and strongest paints on the market. If you have painted with latex paints, you may have noticed that they take a very long time to dry completely before they become hard and impervious to scratching. Some states do not allow oil based paints to be sold and only latex paints are available now. Our additive is formulated to be used in both latex as well as oil based paints. We do advise not mixing any water into paint containing our additive as the water can have an adverse reaction with some paints mixed with our additive. Our directions advise that if you are using a paint other than that called for in our directions that you try a little in some out of the way spot where it can be covered if your results are less than anticipated. Reading all the directions is always important.

We have been asked many questions about our magnetic paint and how it can be used. We make all of these questions available on our site hoping they will save you time and money. One such question was asking if our additive could be mixed with latex paints. At the time, we were still advising that only oil based primer sealer paints be used. We had done some experimenting with a few latex paints and had very good results. We told people that they could mix our additive with what ever paints they wished to use but to also try it in some out of the way spot. Marci W. above was one customer that moved ahead without either reading the entire answer or thought she would be safe. She painted her entire wall using expensive finish paint instead of the primer called for in the can's directions in order to save time and money and what she thought would be unnecessary steps using primer. She may have also added water to the paint accidentally by washing up her brushes and rollers and then using them again. She was unhappy with the results, whether it was the slight texture, the color or the strength of attraction. Adding our additive to white primer does not change the color of the primer. The additive is a light gray color and adding it to a special colored finish paint could make the color change to a shade darker. That is one of the reasons we advise against using expensive finish paint to mix with the additive. Another is that finish paint is much more expensive than primer paint. If you are going to do multiple coats of magnetic paint, mix the additive with primer paint and save money. It takes at least two coats of the magnetic paint, some prefer three and others four. If she would have painted over the magnetic paint with a final coat of her finish paint only, without the additive, her finish coat would have been the color she had intended. Again, not wishing to be bothered with more expense or work or additional paint, she called me to insist her mistakes were somehow my fault and insisted that I refund her money. I pointed out her problem and the solution but she would hear nothing about it. She wanted her money back. She then threatened to write a derogatory comment here about me and my product. Check out my site for your self and see if I don't make every effort to make your using my magnetic paint additive as easy and sucessful as possible.

In closing, when you try a new product that will have a permanent effect on your life, please read all the directions.