It’s been 12 years since I last painted the exterior of my house — and I can’t put it off any longer. The latest issue of FHB indicates “latex-base primers have been formulated to outperform oil-base primers in most applications.” I think my oil base primer did pretty well 12 years ago, but a lot may have changed since then. I’m looking for experience and opinions from others — should I switch to a latex primer this time or should I go with oil base again?
For background, I’m painting old pine (1910) beveled siding. Last time I used Pittsburgh’s oil base primer and Manor Hall latex top coat but I’ve not kept up with changes in paints since then.
Thanks for your help!
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What is the condition of the painted siding and trim? Will you be using radical means to try to get it down to the bare wood again?
A repaint may very well be trickier than painting new. You have compatibility problems to solve, if you are priming and painting over your old paint and primer. Best ask the folks at PPG.
Most of the paint is still in pretty good shape - just faded and mildewed (result of Houston's hot and humid climate). Only about 10% has peeling or other problems to deal with. The areas that are peeling will get sanded down to bare wood. The primer question is only for what will become bare wood. Where the paint is intact, I'm just planning to spray with a bleach solution, pressure wash, and then repaint.
Where the wood is bare and the grain openned from sanding there is a good case for using oil because it penetrates and bonds deeper to the wood as it cures more slowly.
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I enjoy painting the occassional house but not so much that i would use anything but Duration, self priming, on top of an obsessive amount of prep.
Why not just paint with any of the on the market paints. They all advertise 25 to 35 year paint life. That will be much better than the 12 years you got.
You must have used 12 year paint! Thats your problem.
I always seems to use 6 or 8 year paint.
Hardie plank would help too probably
I don't get involved a lot with painting :-) so I have no info to offer but let me ask this question: 5 or so years ago I heard that they came out with 100% acrylic top coat paint that was guaranteed for life. Haven't really heard anything about it sense - anyone have any thoughts about that? Matt
I like Benjamin Moore "Fresh Start", available in oil or water base. I like all their products.