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Primer
Posted by CLC on Oct 17, 2006
I still recommend primer whenever you paint over epoxy, for two reasons:
1. It looks better. The primer fairs out your imperfect sanding job. (Your sanding job is perfect, you say? Wait'll you put glossy paint on.)
2. Primers seem to have a "crosslinking" effect with the epoxy. Primer simply sticks better to epoxy than glossy paint does, or at least that's been my experience. Last summer I polled some professional boatbuilders and they agreed with me, that they had better paint adhesion when primer was used as an intermediate step.
I get a lot of calls about primers for varnish; there are none.
In Response to: Re: Exterior house paint? by LeeG on Oct 17, 2006
Replies:
- Re: Primer by John Pollard on Oct 18, 2006
- Re: Primer by John Beck on Oct 18, 2006