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Posted by Big_Jake on June 28, 2007, 10:00 pm
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> Well, I hear what you're saying about the cost of new trim. But frankly
> sanding hundreds of feet of trim all throughout the house sounds like a
> major pain in the neck too, especially if it's before and after the first
> coat. I think I'm looking at at least 3 coats total, whereas with preprimed
> trim it would only be one coat on top (assuming white on white).
> Does TSP really work fine rather than sanding/deglossing? Or is it actually
> a deglossing agent?
> Thanks for the tips.
You must be one heckuva great finish carpenter if you think it is less
work to cut, trim, nail, putty, and possible caulk all that trim after
you pull out all the old trim without damaging plaster or drywall.
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Posted by EXT on June 30, 2007, 7:20 pm
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>> Well, I hear what you're saying about the cost of new trim. But frankly
>> sanding hundreds of feet of trim all throughout the house sounds like a
>> major pain in the neck too, especially if it's before and after the first
>> coat. I think I'm looking at at least 3 coats total, whereas with
>> preprimed
>> trim it would only be one coat on top (assuming white on white).
>> Does TSP really work fine rather than sanding/deglossing? Or is it
>> actually
>> a deglossing agent?
>> Thanks for the tips.
> You must be one heckuva great finish carpenter if you think it is less
> work to cut, trim, nail, putty, and possible caulk all that trim after
> you pull out all the old trim without damaging plaster or drywall.
> JK
PLUS the preprimed stuff still needs sanding in my past experience, if you
are going to do a good job, so you would be no further ahead.
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Posted by Cindy Hamilton on June 29, 2007, 10:30 am
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> Let's say you've got a house full of natural wood trim (polyurethane), and
> you really want it semi-gloss white. Would you paint it, or just buy new
> preprimed trim? If you paint, do you degloss first, or just put on the
> primer and then paint over?
I'll trade you the trim in my house for the trim in your house. I'd
love
to have natural wood trim. It's on our Things to Do list, but pretty
far down.
Frankly, any time I hear of someone painting wood, I think "Vandal!
If you're going to paint it, it might as well be plastic."
Cindy Hamilton
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Posted by dpb on June 29, 2007, 10:38 am
Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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>> Let's say you've got a house full of natural wood trim (polyurethane), and
>> you really want it semi-gloss white. Would you paint it, or just buy new
>> preprimed trim? If you paint, do you degloss first, or just put on the
>> primer and then paint over?
>
> I'll trade you the trim in my house for the trim in your house. I'd
> love
> to have natural wood trim. It's on our Things to Do list, but pretty
> far down.
>
> Frankly, any time I hear of someone painting wood, I think "Vandal!
> If you're going to paint it, it might as well be plastic."
Depends on the wood...finger-jointed, paint-grade poplar would look
pretty ugly other than painted...otoh, when I was in VA and restoring
old houses there, most that had been converted to apartments for
sometimes nearly 50 years, finding wide mahogany, walnut, clear pine
raised panel wainscotting having been sawed through for new doorways and
somesuch, "just" 20 layers of paint to strip was relatively minor
desecration to be joyful over... :(
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Posted by Cindy Hamilton on June 29, 2007, 10:59 am
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> Let's say you've got a house full of natural wood trim (polyurethane), and
> you really want it semi-gloss white. Would you paint it, or just buy new
> preprimed trim? If you paint, do you degloss first, or just put on the
> primer and then paint over?
I'll trade you the trim in my house for the trim in your house. I'd
love
to have natural wood trim. It's on our Things to Do list, but pretty
far down.
Frankly, any time I hear of someone painting wood, I think "Vandal!
If you're going to paint it, it might as well be plastic."
Cindy Hamilton
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> sanding hundreds of feet of trim all throughout the house sounds like a
> major pain in the neck too, especially if it's before and after the first
> coat. I think I'm looking at at least 3 coats total, whereas with preprimed
> trim it would only be one coat on top (assuming white on white).
> Does TSP really work fine rather than sanding/deglossing? Or is it actually
> a deglossing agent?
> Thanks for the tips.