Hey guys:
I am a noobie with no prior experience. Start to look into furniture painting hobby ( may transition into autobody paint). I do not want airless and want to stick with HVLP sprayers. The more I research, the less clear I am on what I should get. Should I go for dedicated turbine system like a FUJI or should I get a decent size compressor and go that way?
This is the second time I have used Benjamin Moore Aura and both times my painter has seem to have issues. I know this is supposed to be a high level paint but it just seems like he has issues each time. Is it him or is this paint hard to use? Is this a prep problem or lack of technique?
This was a room that was previously painted that he primed and painted over.
Am I being overly critical?
I used Everlast paint to paint my house 10 years ago and it still looks great. The paint went on smooth, no peeling, and looks clean all the time, even after 10 years. I can't imagine anything else doing much better as this looks great, so what's the problem with it?
I bring this up because I have to touch up some trim and soffit that was changed and I looked through my old paint and found that I actually used the less expensive Valspar Duramax paint for that. Most of that hasn't been painted in over 15 years and while the trim looks fine, the soffit looks dirty in some places, but I never wash it or anything. Anyways, still for that long, I think it looks good.
I do have a nearly full gallon of the Duramax but it is dated 2017 and even though it looks OK, I don't want to have to worry about having to redo this soffit in case this is bad so I better buy some new paint.
TLDR: Convince me why I shouldn't buy that same Valspar paint for the soffit. I don't care either way, just trying to learn here.
I need to paint just about every service of a 2000 square-foot house DIY. It’s over 100 years old. I haven’t tested for Lead, but I’m sure it’s there. before I get painting I will test. But I’m trying to come up with a rough game plan.
Some of the walls are painted with glossy paint over textured wallpaper. A lot of the paint and wallpaper is either chipping or peeling or bubbling out. The very base of the wall is plaster not drywall. All of the wood trim, windows and doors are painted.
Before I started thinking about Lead, my thoughts were to use BIN primer i’m just about every surface after pulling and scraping any loose bits off. There’s also some interesting artwork consisting of flat glass marbles hot glue glued to plaster walls that needs to come down . So there’s gonna be quite a bit of damage to that surface. My hope was that with a shellac base it wouldn’t cause the wallpaper to swell and peel more.
After thinking about lead, I looked at the encapsulating primers, but they all seem to be water-based.
Can I make a primer/ primer/ paint sandwich? Using the bin over the base and then lead guard over that to lock everything in and interior paint on top? Or is there another product I just haven’t come across yet that would do a better job for both?