Hi Everyone,
I have gallon of purple BM paint that I am going to put on my freshly primed walls tonight. I fear the color may be too light, and I may want to make it darker. I won’t know till after the first coat. The question is can I go a shade darker without repriming over the lighter shade of purple.
Thanks
“Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? Oh, it looks good on you though.”
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Yes, the darker coat adheres as if you were doing multiple coats of the same color. If you let many months or a year elapse between, then maybe reprime.
This suggestion might be too late, but when you're going with such a vibrant color, tinting the primer helps improve the job.
Stace
Thanks. Yes, too late with the primer tip, but what is that all about anyway. New to the paint game here."Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? Oh, it looks good on you though."
What is primer? Or what is tinting primer all about?Primer provides good coverage and adhesion for your top coats. On bare wood it can seal sap from bleeding through. it'll seal in water/smoke stains, too. Also, you start with a uniform color,so your top coat appears more even.It doesn't have weather resistence like exterior paint, so it should never be left uncoated since it will break down under the elements. Also, it doesn't have any sheen, so if you left it as your top coat indoors, I imagine it would get dirty quickly (its purpose in life is to have stuff stick to it).Tinting it, even if it is slightly tinted, can help the coverage of the top coats. Since the purple that you're using is such a drastic contrast from the primer (white), you'll need 2 coats at a minimum to get the full richness of the color. A tinted primer helps. And two light coats are preferable to one heavy coats. It wil dry more uniformly and won't have drips/runs.Working all the way back to the beginning, before painting, walls should be clean and free of dirt/grease/Farah Fawcett posters from the 70s.StaceEdited 3/21/2006 4:34 pm ET by SCaseria
Edited 3/21/2006 4:36 pm ET by SCaseria
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good advice, don't paint over it!!! They're fetching $15 on ebay :)
$15, that's it? is that actually your poster, or did you find the pic on eBay? It'd be great for a rec room or garage wall, just for the nostalgia. Thanks for posting it.Stace
after reading your post. I checked ebay out of curiosity and there were a ton of them. Some "new in wrapper" $15 seemed to be the going price, some less.
I always tint my primer. If the color coat is very light, or white, I have it tinted a very light tan, just enough so that I can tell where the color coat has been applied. Nothing worse than trying to add a white color coat over white primer.
If the color is medium or dark, I have the primer tinted a light grey generically, or maybe a lighter shade of the color coat.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
You forgot the most important part....Don't use Behr Primer!!!!!
I have been using first coat and it's great, One coat 100% coverage. I bought Behr cause I was at your favorite place and thats what they had. 2 coats later I could still see drywall paper. Yes, I was using the kind for new drywall. That stuff stinks (literaly and figuratively). I quickly covered it with premo BM topcoat."Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? Oh, it looks good on you though."