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   Qtrmeg | Jul 21, 2003 05:56pm | #1

   With Kilz 2, or any 100% acrylic house paint. Oil paints will bleed.

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   loco | Jul 21, 2003 08:42pm | #2

   Any other special prep? I've already power-washed the whole thing. If possible, I would like to paint the new walls to match, too, so it sounds like Kilz 2, with a top coat of acrylic is the way to go?

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   Qtrmeg | Jul 22, 2003 06:01pm | #3

   I don't know, how much can you prep muck? One thing I would worry about is adding too much paint/finish thickness over the coating, like trying to texture the walls, but maybe someone here has tried it. Who knows, maybe you could thin down some standard joint compound and then paint over it? Hmm.

   I also would let your primer fully cure before you topcoated it, or the finish paint may tend to soften the primer coat, and you need all the breaks you can get.

   Let us know how this works out, this isn't something I see alot of, other than the occasional touch-up after a wild coating guy, and in that case all they used was flat housepaint, tinting to concrete color, one coat, and it seemed to cover and hold up just fine.

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   loco | Jul 23, 2003 01:30pm | #4

   Thanks for the info - I'll post again when I get that far, but as (I think)Robert Frost wrote, I have "miles to go before I sleep".