We have a 100 yr old house that we wanted to repaint. Since we hate doing all the prep work and wanted to avoid (to whatever extent possible) having to scrape etc in the future, we decided to strip the house to bare wood and then apply an oil-based primer and then Sherwin WIlliams Woodscapes paint stain over it.
I got the Paint Shaver and spent some long days stripping the paint off one side of the house, then sanding the wood to be less rough, caulking every crack etc, covering the windows, and then went out in the sunny morning yesterday and applied my primer coat.
Feeling pretty good about the job, we went to clean up and realized when paint thinner and mineral spirits weren’t cleaning our brushes that we had not applied the oil-based primer, but latex PAINT to our bare wood side. The containers they come in look almost identical and the paint store guy gave us the wrong thing — and we didn’t check up on him!
So are we totally sc*ewed?! I figure we’ve got a few options and don’t know which to go with:
1.) continue ahead and apply the Woodscapes over the latex paint
2.) apply a primer on top of the latex paint (which I guess would need to be a latex primer rather than oil) and then do the Woodscapes
3.) strip the latex paint off and then go back to the oil primer and woodscapes
If I really need to strip again, it’ll probably take me 2 days work — definitely a drag, but not a total disaster….
Please, please, please, any advice will be MUCH appreciated!
Jed.
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or plan K...make the paint store strip it and do it over.
I'd be in thier face, or kicking my own butt for not checking..
paint over it, the latex will act as a sort of primer..
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Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations.
I would strip the latex paint off and get back to the bare wood and start over! Latex paint is not even close to being a primer and will jeopardize the integrity of the entire paint job. Better to do it now than after you apply the successive coats. Some extra work could save you a LOT of extra work! Good luck!
Duey
Maybe ask the paint store. You don't necessarily have to butt heads with them, just explain what happened and see what they say. If they made a mistake and accept responsibility for it, they may offer to make it up to you with some free paint. At the very least you'd get their opinion on the paint as primer issue.
If you applied latex primer instead of oil based primer then you're fine. If you applied latex paint, rather than primer, you really should take it off.
On my first house almost 20 years ago, I installed a bunch of new wood trim on a newly constructed garage. I ran out of primer with a couple of boards left. Not thinking primer really did much, I applied topcoat to the whole job without priming those few boards. Just a few years later, those boards, and only those boards, peeled. The paint on the primed boards lasted many years longer. So, I now fully believe in primer.
As for what to do, I'd call the manufacturer's tech service line and ask what to do to recover.