Acountryfarm and holligator you have beautiful spaces! Did either of you hesitate to use pine? My builder is afraid that the knots will eventually show through. I thought the proper primer would prevent this. He's talking redwood or something that I know would be quite a bit more $$$. How long have you been in holligator? Looks like your paint job is still perfect.
Sorry I missed this, but no, I would definitely not hesitate to use pine again. We love it! We've only been in since January, but there's no sign of the knots coming through. My husband did the paint job, and he was VERY thorough with the primer.
He used Zinsser BIN, which is designed specifically for this purpose. NOTHING gets through that stuff. He went over each knot very carefully with primer using a brush, then he applied the primer to the whole board using a roller, then he went back over the knots with another brush coat. The whole ceiling then got, I think, three coats of paint.
I will strongly suggest, however, that the wood be primed and the first coat of paint applied before the ceiling is installed. With our construction schedule, my husband didn't have a chance to do this before they installed it, so he had to do all the priming and painting standing on a ladder looking up. It was back breaking work. Getting the grooved thoroughly covered was extremely difficult, too, and would have been much easier if they were at least primed before going up.
Just another quick story in praises of Zinsser BIN...when we were doing our ceiling, I shared info about this product with a friend. Several years prior, she had moved into a house that had been previously occupied by smokers. They had used Kilz to prime everything and repaint, and that got rid of almost all the smell. The only room that continued to be a problem was the bathroom. It was fine dry, but when it got steamed up from a shower, the smoke smell was overwhelming. She primed it with BIN and repainted again, and hasn't smelled smoke since. That stuff is amazing!
Here is a link that might be useful: Zinsser BIN primer
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