SW Paint and Primer advice for old clapboards...
sarahandbray
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Help!! Need advice on primer and paint for cabinets
Comments (24)Oh, that was confusing, wasn't it? The first set of cabinets I used the STIX, which I really like. When I got 22 cabinet doors, I thought I was going to lose my mind painting them in 104 F heat. I sucked it up and went to Duron and got the Spray Zinzer. You know how it's recommended to sand between coats? With the spray can, I definately had to. It was definitely rough. However, after an actually light sanding, it was just fine. The STIX was far smoother (and thicker from the brush application) and also only needed a light sand. I think I kind of cheated. On the 2nd coat of primer for the doors, I used the STIX around the frames where they'd get the most use. Particularly on the uppers and base drawer fronts where I might kick it shut. I wasn't concerned about the flat panels because I live alone and was (practically beaten silly as a child) trained not to touch the cabinet doors, but to use the handle. I also am incapable of touching the car windows, glass screen doors, or make finger or lip prints on a glass. Hmm.. I think I just discovered yet another aspect of not only my OCD, but from where it stemmed. Hmmm.... The thing I stand firm on, actually is the Cabinet Coat. I will use it on every trim and cabinet in my house. [she cried out, pointing finger in the air!] Anyway, just do it. It's just paint....See Morebest primer for old cedar shingles?
Comments (4)Thanks Christophern for taking the time to reply and share your expertise. Have you used Zinsser 123 on cedar shanks before and, if so, did you have problems with tannin bleed? If we add some new shingles to replace a few rotten ones (brand new cedar, of course) would we want to pre-prime those first with an oil like Cover Stain, since new ones are more likely to bleed? Also, how would the Zinsser products compare to "paint store" brand primers you've used? What's the price difference per gallon there, approximately? Thanks to answers to any of the above and sorry to ask so many questions, but I really want to make a good decision before I spend hours and hours stripping, priming and painting....See MoreBathroom primer vs. Bedroom primer and also SW paint
Comments (3)Thanks for the input. A pro painter painted the Duration over my builder's white, 2 coats (no primer:( and it looks fine. But a neighbor's kid splattered some watery mud off their hands on the walls and I don 't think its cleaning anything like its reputation. I had the extra paint so did the bathroom in it, two coats over primer, looks good. Low odor going up, went on fine. Just don't know that it was that big a difference between other paints I've used in the past. So I'm not slamming it as bad paint - just don't know that its the big break through that it gets marketed as. Plus when putting up the christmas tree I made a chip in the pain to drywall in it fairly easy. Maybe its my expectations, I had plaster walls in my other old house - this drywall stuff just seems to dent, chip and get holes poked through the paper real easy. And I'm not tough on it, just a sedate 50 year old. I may try the Cashmere just as an experiment. Don't think I can go wrong either way, just to see the difference. Wish there was another BM dealer in town....See MoreSpraying SW Primer and wb Paint with Airless - tip size?
Comments (4)Lol I figured it'd be you who'd respond, almost pm'd you directly. I did a search to read all your prior posts on spraying. Thanks! So if the orifice is too small for the solids in paint, clogging or tip blowout is the result? Why would manuf. put such large tip req. on cans if so many pros use way way smaller sizes -- that's not just "a little under" spec. About prepaint, yeah you're right I'm sure. My wife isn't picky whatsoever: doesn't see the need for caulk (even when I show her gaps between the base and wall), she'll splash paint over fasteners and let it flash saying "Let's not look from this angle". Gotta love her... She would however be bothered by dirty caulk (no pun) as that happened horribly once when we used cheap caulk, unpainted, at our entryway. Trying to balance her expectations, my perfectionist tendencies, labor efforts, and hatred of brushing....See Morebrickeyee
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