Oh my gosh--I LOVE this Impervo paint!!

15 years ago

WOW! I LOVE this BM wateborne Impervo!!

I'm a slooooooow painter, and I'm used to oil. So after reading about the tricky application of the waterborne, I was feeling pretty anxious about using it.

(I've been restoring my 1929 kitchen for over 2 years now. So much blood, sweat, and tears are in this project. And I want everything to be perfect--which it never is. So I've got a lot of emotion invested in this painting project!)

At 11pm, the family was finally all asleep, and I was awake, and staring at the paint can. Part of me said, "Go to bed! You can paint in the morning." But the louder part said, "Try it now! Try it now!" So, I popped it open, and ended up painting until 2am. Oh, I felt like singing. Singing, I tell you! Tra La La...

It went on so beautifully, and the brushstrokes just melted away. When working on a long stile, for example, I just kept working back into the wet area, but never really needed to do a final pull-through with the brush like I would with other paint. I never needed too.

The hardest part was noticing an errant drip 5 minutes later, and not lettng myself touch it. That took restraint! But the vertical surfaces went very well.

The coverage may not be the greatest. As I was painting, I noticed a few shoe scuff marks on my newly primed face frames (those sneaky kids!). I was already painting, so I just painted over them. I can still clearly see them through the pale yellow paint, but hopefully they will eventually get covered.

The only real problem was that I got too much paint on a few of the doors (being painted in a horizontal position). I was having so much fun 'pouring' it on, and watching it melt into glass, I guess. So, this morning, some spots are still tacky. Will this eventually cure ok? These are the backsides of the doors, so I'm not too worried about them. But do I need to be careful to avoid this on the front sides? It certainly looks thick and luscious, but will it make a surface that is ultimately less durable, and more dentable, etc.?

Thank you thank you thank you for all the advice you all have given me so far. I was so scared to try this paint, my hand was actually shaking last night. But it was soooo fun! I can't wait to do more!

:-) Francy

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randita
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Good deal, bayareafrancy. Sounds like you got it downpat right away - you're a MUCH faster learner than I was!

Regarding little drips, you can actually soak those up with the tip of the paintbrush if they're in corners or grooves (but not on flat surfaces). You can't do a thing about drips of sags on flat areas until it's dry, or you'll muck it up.

I would think that the thicker tacky areas would eventually cure. At least that's been my experience.

I've decided to tackle my yucky 70's den paneling. Going to clean it, scuff it, prime it and paint it with ProClassic satin. Can't wait to see the outcome. Fortunately, it's only chair rail height instead of the whole wall.

Enjoy your success!
rmkitchen
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Francy -- I am just delighted to see your sweet name here! (I'm here on the Painting Forum today looking for brand suggestions for painting outdoor furniture. I was outside painting some side tables fuchsia but a thunderstorm has rolled in -- raindrops the size of Volkswagens and a fierce wind. One of my favorite things about a Colorado summer, seriously.) And I'm so glad you like the Impervo. I have to agree agree agree (that's a wholehearted agreement!) with how terrific it is to work with. We had it colormatched to our (factory finished) kitchen cabinets and I have to say, because of its incredibly fluid nature, it is absolutely impossible to tell the difference between it and the factory finish. (of course, the excellent color match helps!) We have it on the wainscoting in our breakfast nook / family room and it is so smooth. In a hurry I painted a shelf using a foam brush and it is the same texture, the same finish as the wainscoting (which was sprayed). It's crazy!

I also want to tell you that after having it (and ours is pure, bright white) on since late-April how well it's stood up to our family (puppy, three cats, four year-old "Spiderman," two year-old sticky-fingered / chalk-drawing enthusiast). Our two year-old loves walking around with sidewalk chalk in his hand, drawing wherever he feels like it. (and yes, I let him because in general I can just wipe the chalk up) Anyway, the turquoise chalk seems to have permanently marred the white cabinets (I have yet to find a product I'm willing to have in my home which will remove it). BUT, the same turquoise chalk was drawn on the Impervo-painted wainscoting and it wiped right up -- left no marks whatsoever.

The two year-old likes to vacuum (wink wink), and he is rough with it, banging it hard into everything, inc. the wainscoting. Not a problem. The four year-old "Spiderman" likes to climb and has attempted to climb the wainscoting (until he was seen by me, that is), scuffing it. Again, I have had zippo problems wiping it off. I feel like an advertisement but that Impervo is impervious!

(For the record, I've also been having great luck with Aura -- a little friend came over to play and colored her palm red; she then left red palm prints on our newly painted wall. I was less than thrilled, but miracle-of-miracles, it wiped right off with no burnishing. Now that left me thrilled!)

But I do want to caution you to PLEASE, PLEASE take special care of your wrists! I'd hate for you to get any painting injury -- it is just not worth it. It is not worth it at all.

(Now a personal note: Thank you for your lovely note. When you posted pictures of your soapstone delivery [so I saw a photo of your neighborhood] I thought: that looks like Burlingame! But then you wrote about your bicycle and I told my husband [who likes to consider himself East Bay savvy because he moved to the US to attend Cal] and he said: "if it looks like Burlingame then it's XXX." And we'd even been to XXX back when we lived on the peninsula! My cousin [who's a DVM] was filling in for a vacationing vet there so we went to visit her. I can't remember the name of the street, though .... Francy, I'm old so this memory thing happens! You are absolutely one of my all-time favorite people here on GW, so you just have no idea how pleased I am to see you here.)
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Oh my gosh--I LOVE this Impervo paint!!

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