There are two types of paint, oil based then everything else.
I have gone down the road of using latex, and fuckin HATE it. You cant sand it properly, it gums up the paper, it doesn’t stick to the walls but sticks to everything else (paint a shelf and see what i mean) and comes off in sheets if there is an issue.
You can sand oil based nicely, it’s able to be washed easily, it lays like glass and a gallon spreads way further than latex.
It’s only able to be used for certain uses, but in my garage it’s been so nice. If you have to paint, I recommend that you find people in the know and look into oil based. It’s legal for certain applications.
I fucking hate oil paint. Infinitely more of a pain to apply, clean, and takes forever and a day to dry. Plus if you don’t use specific oil-based equipment it looks like a shit sandwich, and if you get any on you you’re either taking a bath in paint thinner, or being that color for a few weeks.
Could just be the one I was using… a high-gloss white for trim. I don’t have the patience to paint trim even once without getting pissed so when it took 2-3 coats to get it looking right I was in mode to behr.
Behr paint, 2 coats with no primer is how I roll. A lot of times I’ll just go with 1 coat out of pure laziness if it looks alright.
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I’m honestly surprised.
In fact, I clearly remember when I was re-painting the old rental house in buffalo, we bought a 5-gallon of behr white. We ran out, and value was closer, so I ran there for a cheapo 5 gallon. That paint was HORRIBLE…very very noticably thinner and more difficult to apply than the behr.
I’ve painted an entire garage over a month period with 1 brush, no special equip, and no baths in thinner. Oil based paint is $33 a gallon, vs what, $28 for the good latex.
The oil based paint DRYS in a day, while latex never really dries, it just gets stiffer.
We painted my parents entire house with oil based a few years ago, it took I coat of primer and a sanding to get rid of the hair on the new drywall from sanding. Then 2 coats of color. It takes the same with latex, if you want to do the job right. I doubt the average home owner can get perfect color coverage in 1 coat, with any product due to skill not product.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who types ‘I’ instead of ‘a’ sometimes. weird but it happens a lot.
back on topic: I would rather paint with something that washes off. I always get paint someplace its not supposed to be whenever I paint; hair, eye, shoe, etc.
Any paint will have adhesion problems when the surface isnt properly prepped. ie, clean and not shiny (scuffed/sanded). And I think its silly not to use primer first, paint is designed to adhere to the primered surface, and the final color is based off the application of primer as well.
all of that last paragraph is ten fold for automotive paints too
mode to behr.