Painted walls with tinted Permawhite yesterday. It is, I guess, good paint, but what a royal pain to apply. “Boss” primed with BM first, and Permawhite is self-priming, so that was probably part of the problem, but it ran and if you tried to fix the runs it just clotted up and made clumps with wall showing through where it slid over. Finally found the best technique was to scrub it in with brush or roller, using as little paint as possible and not worrying that it didn’t cover; then go over a second time. That worked, but I was afraid we’d have to sand the walls between coats because of the runs clumps at first. It turned out “okay”, but not the best job of painting I’ve done (actually, probably the worst).
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Is Permawhite one of the new acrylics designed to replace oil base? I hate all that I have tried. They don't flow and as you said, you can't blend, too fast drying but they still run. The only way seems to be multiple thin coats. I hope they get this worked out before the oils are taken off the market. You don't get anywhere near the same "hand" either.
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It is hard to work with, and two light coats without primer works best for me as well. But it's the best paint I've found for preventing mildew. I used it on all the bathrooms in an apartment building where no one opens their windows- it's basically a little sauna in the bathroom, with no fan either- and it's holding up great going on 3 years now.
I agree; to me it's like working with epoxy--it doesn't "wet" the surface, just sort of floats like you're trying to paint glass. But like the other guy said, it is mildew resistant. I used the white (untinted) on the ceiling and walls of another bathroom remodel and it wasn't as bad as this stuff that was tinted, so maybe that's the problem, though it still ran a bit here and there. The best way I found to cut in was to sort of smush the tip of my brush into a tray of paint and paint with the width of the brush parallel to the corner while pressing pretty hard. Then I went back with the brush perpendicular and sort of blended in the runs. I thought painting with enamel was difficult!