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Posted by Gina on May 4, 2007, 10:59 am
We bought a new house and got a bid for painting from painters my
husband used 7 years ago on our current home. That house was only 3-4
years old at the time, and I believe they only did one coat of paint.
It seems to be holding up okay.
They only want to do one coat of paint on all the interior rooms,
including 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a hallway, laundry room, master
bedroom (just one wall and doors) lots of closets and some basement.
In both the bathrooms the previous owner lit candles and it cast some
kind of smoke shadows on the ceilings. I have been reading that its
good to paint a coat of tinted primer in addition to one coat of
paint. I would at least like to do this in the 2 bathrooms, kitchen,
hallway and basement floor. We could skip the closets. The thing is
the painters were resistant to our suggestion when I mentioned the
primer. She said we don't need it. Do you agree it is necessary,
especially in the bathrooms? Also, in the kitchen, we are going from
bright yellow, to a lighter yellow.
She was also resistant to our suggestion of going with Behr, which was
highly rated in Consumer Reports. She wanted to used Pittsburg
Paints, which was not reviewed in the latest Consumer Reports. Does
anyone know anything about the quality of that brand? I guess they
get a good price on that brand.
Thanks.
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Posted by longshot on May 4, 2007, 11:17 am
I agree you don't need it. The walls have already been primed. Pittsburg
paint is a good major name brand
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Posted by on May 4, 2007, 11:51 am
If the paint is good enough, and the painters know what they are
doing, then one coat should work. If they are accustomed to using a
particular brand of paint, then you should probably let them use it.
With respect to your ascertation that Behr is good paint, I find
plenty of complaints about them. Opinions of paint are all over the
place and hard to trust. I suspect that a lot of that has to due with
lack of prep and misuse, but that does make any ratings hard to go by.
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Posted by Pop` on May 4, 2007, 1:05 pm
longshot wrote:
> I agree you don't need it. The walls have already been primed.
> Pittsburg paint is a good major name brand
You should probably let them do what they're used to doing for best results.
Insist on them signing a written contract that there won't be bleed thru,
unevenness, whatever, covering off all of your concerns and that they'll
redo whatever at their expense if you aren't satisfied. There WILL be a
contract, right? Check it carefully for detail.
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Posted by Joseph Meehan on May 4, 2007, 1:03 pm
Gina wrote:
> We bought a new house and got a bid for painting from painters my
> husband used 7 years ago on our current home. That house was only 3-4
> years old at the time, and I believe they only did one coat of paint.
> It seems to be holding up okay.
>
> They only want to do one coat of paint on all the interior rooms,
> including 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a hallway, laundry room, master
> bedroom (just one wall and doors) lots of closets and some basement.
> ...
With good paint and good painters and no special problems (it does not
sound like you really have any) one coat can really do it.
Most of us mortals use two coats. That makes it a lot easier as it
covers up for our errors.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia 's Muire duit
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