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What type of primer should be used on moisture resistant drywall?
What type of primer should I use my basement bathroom walls? New moisture resistant drywall has been installed, taped and sanded, and is now ready to be primed.
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What should I consider when purchasing a good quality primer/sealer for new drywall?
We recently mudded new sheetrock, followed by orange peel texture: it was our first time doing this so did not get a perfect outcome. We wish now that we had primed/sealed it before texturing, but ...
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What is best way to thoroughly clean airless sprayer after using shellac primer
We will be using a shellac-based primer on our interior walls, using an airless sprayer. I know it needs to be cleaned thoroughly with denatured alcohol. I read somewhere that I should run an ...
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Do primer + paint products work well?
Are primer + paint products as effective as using separate primer and paint
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What primer should I use to paint over nicotine stained walls?
What primer should be used before painting over nicotine stained walls?
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Can I use mixed shellac flakes in place of Zinsser BIN primer?
I have heavy nicotine damage on my ceilings. I want to seal the ceilings and then install a drywall ceiling just below them (with cornices) to cover up the ugly painted "popcorn" texture (I tried ...
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What nap roller should I use for primer?
And does it matter, in choosing the nap, what the sheen of paint will be used over the primer? E.g. if I do my bathroom in semi-gloss using 3/8" nap vs living room in flat with 1/2" nap, should I also ...
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What is the best way to apply Shellac-based primer?
We are preparing to shellac-prime all of the walls on a rental house due to nicotine odors. Is it best to apply this product with a roller or airless sprayer?
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Should I use primer alone first, or can I use paint+primer on renovated/patched walls?
I have a number of walls that have a mix of old lath+plaster and new drywall (parts of walls are plaster, other parts new drywall). The old plaster walls have paint on them but they have not been ...
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Do I have to prime over spackle?
I'm painting my kitchen.
Some areas of the walls had to be repaired with spackle.
Do I need to do a prime coat before I paint? I'm painting the same color. Although I'm changing the finish from ...
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Can I use solvent based paint on waterborne primer?
I have some solvent based paint left (Sikkens Rubbol AZ), but the wood panel I want to paint with had been prepared with a waterborne primer (Sikkens Rubbol Primer BL). It doesn't have to last ...
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How can I prevent color variants when painting over wall putty? [duplicate]
I have used putty on the wall to fix the holes, and fill some gaps. the putty color is white while the rest of the wall is an older light green, I am painting a very dark yellow, However when painting ...
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Can I use a paint & primer combo on new wood?
I'm currently painting a window and door that are both new. Although I initially bought primer which I used on the window (but haven't painted over yet), when doing the door, I just used my ...
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How do I prepare an already painted wall for new paint?
We are repainting a number of rooms in our home, do we need to put primer over the existing paint?
Are there any other gotchas that we need to prepare for before repainting the walls?
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How can I cover water stains on this wall
During sandy storm I had some water leakage in my home. The damage isn't much in the sense that the drywall is still hard. It just has water stains that I'd like to get rid of.
Here is a pic of what ...
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how to find out my primer color
I have some scratches on the drywall which was primer'ed dry wall from moving furniture. I'd like to just apply a coat of primer on the spots where the scratches are. I don't plan on painting just ...
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Which primer to use on an old drywall?
I have a dry wall in the kitchen that has some stains on it. I would just like to put a new coat of white primer on that dry wall so it doesn't look stained.
My questions are:
Should I sand the ...
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How do I properly prepare newly-finished drywall for priming?
What is the minimum amount of dust that can be left on a wall before it adversely affects primer application? If it has to be completely free of dust, how do you get it all? Taking a damp rag over ...
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Should I primer my walls/ceiling before I spray on texture?
I have removed a wall and upper cabinet, replacing some sheetrock. I have skim coated and sanded the existing walls and removed the "popcorn" ceiling. My question is: do I need to primer the walls ...
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Do you need primer between layers of paint? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I prepare an already painted wall for new paint?
I tend to always use primer when painting...be it bare drywall or applying a new color.
But do I always need to ...
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Is there such thing as join-compound primer? And, is there a need to prime before texturing a ceiling?
In this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIt3YEJjFko
The guy breaks down the process of making a California Ceiling into five steps:
Cover the Walls
Prime the Ceiling
Mix joint compound
Spray ...
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Can I use a spray sealer and primer over a patched drywall followed by painting over it?
I have patched one of my wall from a few holes(5) where each is about a finger big. Since it is not a big surface area, can I use a spray stain sealer and primer, and then apply paint over the entire ...
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Do I need to prime/seal new drywall behind cabinets?
If I were doing it, I would usually prime and paint before installing the cabinets. My painter for this project says he'd prefer that I install everything before he paints.
Do I need to use a sealing ...
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Can I use primer for multiple purposes?
I want to join some PVC pipes. I've got primer (from a store that only sells paint) and on the back it says it's suitable for PVC. I doesn't say anything about paint or joining. Can I use this kind of ...
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Is the permeability of normal shellac (flakes dissolved in spirits) the same as Zinsser B-I-N sealer?
I've made a whole batch of clear shellac for sealing ceiling and concrete floors in a heavily nicotine damaged apartment.
But I'm worried now that there may be some differences between them, such as ...
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Will drywall mud stick to shellac-based primer?
We are preparing to prime interior walls using a shellac-based primer, followed with a setting compound mud. Will the mud stick adequately to the shellac-based product or do we need to use another ...
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Drywall Painting: Do I need to keep priming here?
I am painting a room where the previous paint job was not very good. You can see brush marks from a great distance, it got all over the trim, and the paint looked watered down (thanks builders). It ...
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How do I determine where lead paint was used?
I just bought a new house. The inspector told me that the entry way paint is cracking because a previous owner painted over lead paint without using the proper primer. How do I find out which walls ...
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How should I clean and repaint a painted wooden deck?
My deck appears to have been painted with just a single layer of paint, which is now peeling off. I like the look of the paint (when it's in better condition, of course), and am uninterested in ...
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How can I make MDF more resistant panels?
I have fallen in love with textured MDF panels used to make walls.
Oh boy that's beautiful. But raw, it's almost impossibly fragile. The question is : How can I make it harder, stonger to go ...
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Should we sand and prime holes in our walls or pay someone to do it?
We just had our 1,000-square-foot house insulated with blown-in insulation. Now we have 180 patched-up holes in our interior walls that need be sanded and primed before we repaint. The holes ...
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What primer and paint should I used for a solid-core wooden front door?
I recently purchased a new pre-hung exterior door for my house. We opted for a solid-core Douglas Fir instead of the fiberglass models as the wooden door was substantially cheaper. We want to paint ...
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Do I really need to wait a month before applying primer to plaster?
I've recently removed wallpaper and now I've gone through and plastered over some bad spots on the wall. I've already sanded it down and it's ready for primer. However, when reading the instructions ...
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How can I stop primer from eating my roller handles?
Whenever I use primer, it seems like I get about one room's worth of coverage before the roller handle seizes up, so that I'm pushing the roller along the wall instead of rolling it. I'm ...
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Sealing, Priming, and Painting a Window
I have a house full of wooden windows with some old flaking paint. The wood is quite solid, the glass is intact and not fogging. I was planning on scraping the windows and repainting them. My question ...
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Should I install baseboards before or after skimcoating?
My bathroom walls were a mix of plaster and drywall with various layers of paint, primer, and skim coating. I attempted to skim coat the walls myself to prepare for priming and painting, but I wasn't ...
