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07-20-2006, 10:21 PM
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Home Improvement Guy
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What would the pros do?
I'm painting all the trim and most doors in an upcoming job. It's all oil now (2 coats) and slightly yellowed after just 5 years. I like oil but was wondering if it might be a good idea to sand, prime, and switch to latex. More labor involved but I want to do the right thing. Oil or latex?
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07-21-2006, 12:33 AM
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How old is the home? If it's a classic, I'd stay with oil. You can just scuff with some 3M pads and 'get'er done'.
I'm an old guy. Like the smell of oil based products. I'm not in a panic to get it done yesterday. I do like to do things right and I was taught that oil goes on wood. I don't see any waterbased paints that approach it for durability.
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07-21-2006, 05:15 AM
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...jammin
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I like working with oil
It's more durable
It lasts 3X as long (at least in this environment)
Trim and doors?
Oil...no question
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I have never used this crap before and I pray to the paint gods that I never have to use it again, I would rather use Behr
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07-21-2006, 06:24 AM
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Home Improvement Guy
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Teetor: the house is 12 years old and this will be it's second paint job (since the original)
Last edited by ron schenker; 07-21-2006 at 11:33 AM.
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07-21-2006, 06:45 AM
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Pro
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Oil would be best. Looks better, and it's more durable. Don't forget to TSP the kitchen and bathrooms before you sand. All that grease and hair-spray inhibits adhesion.
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07-21-2006, 02:48 PM
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Pro Painter
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If it's got oil, your best solution is another oil product. Same if it had latex, stay with latex simply because latex is easier on the health and the environment.
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07-22-2006, 03:21 PM
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Pro
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Porter Paints makes a non-yellowing oil product called Glyptex.
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07-23-2006, 06:58 PM
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Not much help to you because it is a florida manufacturer but this stuff is the reason I swithed to acrylics on a lot of interior trim.
http://www.scottpaint.com/files/435%...Semi-Gloss.pdf
Gets hard enough to sand the first coat and tips out to a beautiful finish. Not quite as mirror like as you can get with oil but the fact that it won't crack makes it a fair tradeoff imho.
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07-27-2006, 11:09 PM
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My custom title
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Porter acri-pro high gloss is just as hard, and mirror-like as oil. Tell ya what, i've been doing this for 30+ years, i'm tired of dying. Instead of dumping your used spirits in the area the driveway is going down or paying through the nose to get it dumped, check out new product lines.
Besides, this stuff they call oil based isn't real anyhow, they changed the formula's years ago and took all the good stuff off the market.
Whatever you go for though... prep prep and more prep, nothing looks good with a first graders prep work.
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07-27-2006, 11:18 PM
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Whatever you go for though... prep prep and more prep, nothing looks good with a first graders prep work.
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Unless you hang it on the refrigerator. Then it looks like art. 
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07-28-2006, 01:47 AM
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My custom title
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Ha! Now that would be an interesting Faux, taking 1st graders art and making a mural on a wall.... hmmmm....
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