Alcohol Primer Reactivated By Lowes American Tradition

johnjamesalaska

This is crazy but I do loads and loads of fire restoration and the insurance company specs what gets replaced and what gets restored. The lids on the upper floor were heavily blackened by smoke but salvageable unlike walls and lids everywhere else. The cleaning crew washed the heck out of it till it was no longer black but a washed grey. I then coated with zinser alcohol primer to cover the smell. Coated it till it was completly white. The smell was completly gone. We have to buy paint from lowes or home depot because its an insurance job/psp. So I went to get what I usually buy and they were out. So I bought American tradition water based semi gloss. I sprayed this stuff about a week after the zinser and it was the most amonia smellin stuff ive ever sprayed. It was respirator ville. It was wet falling krud as well. So i wasnt going to use this stuff ever again. The next morning i walked in and the upstairs reeks of smoke again. The paint reactivated the primer . That was a new one for me. So i re primed and repainted with olympic. Has anyone ever had that problem?

ProWallGuy

You say zinsser alcohol primer; do you mean zinsser's BIN shellac primer?
If so, I see no way the blowes paint could reactivate it, as it's water-based, especially after a weeks dry time. Hmmm, interesting.

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slickshift

Wow

I can't see how even a crappy paint could re-activate shellac
Maybe the cleaning co's cleaners left a residue that didn't allow the BIN to fully adhere?
Maybe it hung on until sprayed (weighted) with paint and then could hold on no longer?

johnjamesalaska

Ya the red labled primer is alcohol the gold is oil based and the blue is water based. It definetly broke down the primer. I know it sound absolutely absurd but it did. The cleaners were before the prime. After the prime no and I mean no smell for a week or so. We were waiting for windows to arrive. Alaska Installed the windows, installed rock w/three way wrap bullnose texed ,primed pva, texed and painted and then bam smokeville. Im tellin ya that stuff (paint) reeeeeked of an amonia type smell. I will never happen again cause american tradition from blowes ...BLOWES for so many other reasons. It makes oylmpic look good.