Does anyone out there have any experience with Duration paint by Sherwin Williams?
We have an old house with plenty of old paint. The paint would be scraped, but just down to sound paint, not necessarily to bare wood. We don’t know what kind of paint the old paint is. Latex paint supposedly does not adhere well to oil paint.
The painter our G.C. uses is sold on Duration, but we have some concerns:
1. It’s supposed to be self-priming. Will Duration adhere well under the aforementioned circumstances? The painter planned to spot-prime the bare wood, but that’s all.
2. It offers one-coat coverage (don’t they all?). Can we really expect that?
3. I don’t know how long Duration has been on the market, but would like to hear of how well it’s held up for some of you folks out there.
I’d appreciate any help or advice you can offer.
Dave
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I painted my house and garage 3 years ago with Duration. So far I'm pleased with the performance. My house is sided with pine clapboards. I replace the bad ones with material I primed before installation ( Sherwin Williams A-100 primer ). Some sides of the house have 2 coats (sunny sides) but most have 1 coat only. The scraped areas that were down to bare wood I used the Duration as a primer. A gallon of Duration does not cover as much as regular latex paint, so you'll need more product. It's expensive, thus it makes more sense to use the recommended primer rather than the Duration if you have a lot of area to prime. Painting with this product is kinda like painting with mayonaise, that's the consistency. Bottom line- I'm happy with results so far. I'm hoping to not have to paint for at least 4-5 more years. We'll see By the way, I live in southern Maine so we see weather of all types. Good luck.
Dana
Salmon Falls Housewrights
Check out this past thread:
Sherwin Wms Duration paint. Anyone have any experience with ... 44020.1
Edited 7/7/2004 6:22 pm ET by CaseyR
the discussion that Casey linked to was started by me. After reading the advice, I modified my application techniques, and I was happy with the results. Seems to be good paint.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
Thanks for the responses. Has anyone used it over oil-based paint? My understanding is that latex over oil is a big no-no, because latex flexes, causing the brittle oil paint to break loose and take the latex with it. Why wouldn't this be a problem with Duration?