Originally Posted By: spasm3
Originally Posted By: Oil Changer
Thanks. Since no one had particularly anything bad to say about S-W, I'm going to go with S-W. Real close by and I have coupons.
Wife will change her mind in a couple months about something and I'll have to re-paint anyway. If I don't like the S-W, I'll buy something else.
I have used S-W in the past and have found that a gallon seems to go farther than, for example, Behr.
Now, if you are sure you are going to repaint this within a year or two, i'd buy much cheaper paint. Better paint is easier to clean etc. But i'd not spend $30 a gallon if its only going to be there a year or two. Heck i'd buy the cheapest if i knew i was going to redo it in a year or so, maybe even walmart paint.
I'd advise against that. Here's what 35+ years of painting professionally taught me. Cheaper paint is just that, most of the time it has a high clay content, and could pose problems down the road since it will be the weakest link in the chain. I've seen good paint fail because of a coat of lousy paint under it. I've also seen wall covering peel off in sheets, with the clay based paint stuck to the back of the paper, even after a so called wallpaper primer was applied. It's not worth it unless the someone is cleaning up a house to sell it, and doing it cheap is the primary goal.
Originally Posted By: Oil Changer
Thanks. Since no one had particularly anything bad to say about S-W, I'm going to go with S-W. Real close by and I have coupons.
Wife will change her mind in a couple months about something and I'll have to re-paint anyway. If I don't like the S-W, I'll buy something else.
I have used S-W in the past and have found that a gallon seems to go farther than, for example, Behr.
Now, if you are sure you are going to repaint this within a year or two, i'd buy much cheaper paint. Better paint is easier to clean etc. But i'd not spend $30 a gallon if its only going to be there a year or two. Heck i'd buy the cheapest if i knew i was going to redo it in a year or so, maybe even walmart paint.
I'd advise against that. Here's what 35+ years of painting professionally taught me. Cheaper paint is just that, most of the time it has a high clay content, and could pose problems down the road since it will be the weakest link in the chain. I've seen good paint fail because of a coat of lousy paint under it. I've also seen wall covering peel off in sheets, with the clay based paint stuck to the back of the paper, even after a so called wallpaper primer was applied. It's not worth it unless the someone is cleaning up a house to sell it, and doing it cheap is the primary goal.