Painting over oil-stained cedar trim? Latex over Alkyd primer?
Xty G (z4)
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Help re. Latex Paint (BM Natura) over Oil-based Paint on Trim
Comments (5)I have also gotten conflicting advice, similar to what you have heard. I'm no expert, but I'll tell you what I ended up doing which seemed to work out pretty well, at least so far. We bought a ~100 year old home six months ago that we're just getting around to painting now, after rewiring. Most of the trim is painted with what seems to be a high gloss oil-based paint, and a much of it (especially doors and baseboards) is quite dirty. The only trim I've painted over so far is a few doors, but I'll be starting on the rest of the trim in a couple weeks. For the doors, I scraped off just whatever bits were already flaking off, then washed them really well, and then used "liquid sandpaper". If your trim is glossy you may want to use liquid sandpaper to remove the gloss. It's not a paint stripper, so you won't be left with messy globs of dissolved paint. It just removes some of the sheen so that the new layers bond to it better. Then I primed with an oil-based primer. I have used both latex and oil primers in a previous home, and the oil primers always seem to bond better. Then painted with Regal Select Semi Gloss. I haven't tried Natura, but I might... Anyway, I would recommend liquid sandpaper rather than sanding as long as the old paint is basically well-bonded to the trim, then oil-based primer, than latex paint. I'm curious what suggestions other people have.....See Morelatex over oil on trim-any non-toxic options
Comments (1)If it were me, I would sand well and use the acrylic primer. The reason is that even if I were to use an oil based primer, I would still sand, so what is the point? Do they want to skip the sanding entirely?...See MorePainting over stained trim: primer and paint choices?
Comments (2)BIN you need if you have to cover knots and that can be used as a spot primer. Otherwise, Zinnser, or Fresh Start is good. Where I would spend the money is on a decent trim paint. I almost always use BM. No need to remove trim, sounds like you are on the right track!...See MoreLatex over Oil-based trim
Comments (5)Amen to that! I discovered a few months ago that some of our trim paint is peeling in the kitchen. We're sure that the whole place was "painted to sell" including NEW popcorn on the ceiling. There's a few places where the popcorn is cracking and flaking. I can't even imagine what a huge mess that will be to fix (who puts up NEW popcorn these days??) but fixing any of it isn't in the current time/money/ energy budget. It seems like every month for the last year, we've had to undo some mess that they did (plumbing, electrical, etc. etc.) I will be cursing the PO's of this house for a very long time. Some people say they'll have a party when they pay off their mortgage, and we say we're having a party when we finally fix all of their mess!...See MoreXty G (z4)
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