Painting an Old Victorian House
R.K.P.
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> I live in New York and have recently undertaken restoration of an 1880's
wood
> sided house. I have stripped much of the paint off but I'm not sure what
kind
> of primer and top coat to use. I have been told to use a latex primer and
an
> oil base top coat. It seems, to me, this might result in poor adheasion
> between the dis-similar types. Any recommendations?
>
> For the places were I just remove the loose paint what should I do?
>
> The current condition is checking, peeling, chalking, flaking, cracking
etc...
> in places the paint is 3/16" thick.
>
> Help!
> Fred
Linziw
Richard E. Thiess
On the exterior of a home, where you probably have a moisture problem
already (as exhibited by the cracking and peeling), you want to use a
coating system that will breath. I recommend a water-borne primer and a
waterborne topcoat. The water-borne products generally have a higher
Moisture Vapor Transmission Level. This will allow any moisture in the wall
to breath out without blistering the exterior coatings. Older solvent borne
"oil based" technology tends try to seal in the moisture. Regarding
exterior durability, I recommend a 100% Acrylic topcoat. Not a modified
acrylic such as a vinyl-acrylic. Again, the older solvent borne "oil based"
technology just isn't as good as the today's 100% acrylics. A good system,
the system that I used on my house last fall, is Sherwin-Williams A-100
Primer and Sherwin-Williams Superpaint. This is by no means a cheap system,
but is is a good system.
Richard E. Thiess
Norcross, GA
(Over thirty-seven years in industrial coatings, with seventeen years in the
lab)
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