Painting and sticker shock

[garyb1st]

It's been a while since I've done any painting and usually I just buy from Home Depot. But after one disastrous result using their Behr's paint and primer in one I decided to just use the old stuff, plain old paint. Unfortunately they don't sell it anymore. So I thought I'd go to Dunn Edwards to see what they suggest. Ouch. $75 - 100 a gallon for paint. And on top of that, they don't have much. Guess there's a shortage of paint. Not sure what's going on but hopefully someone on the forum can save me some time and money. So a couple of questions.

First, when I used the paint and primer in one I didn't put a prime coat over the old stuff. Within months, it began peeling off. I've already primed the two rooms I'll be painting so if that was the problem then I should be OK. My house is 70 years old and some of the paint may be lead based. Don't know how to tell and really am not concerned about it. However if it is, does that require any special prep.

Second, is Dunn Edwards or any of the other pro brands worth the price?

 

[Gizmo100]

Just a Guess....
If you used latex paint over oil base it will peel. Unless you take steps to prepare the surface.

 

[Mark_K5LXP]

Thinking you'd have to go back pretty far when oil base was the only game in town. Trying to think what the likelihood would be someone would've painted a room with it and not change it for decades. For prep though a product like Kilz primer would probably do the trick.

I normally get the 'mid' grade paint at lowes (I get 10% military discount...). For interior paint it lasts as long as our taste for the color, exterior has about 20 years on it and is starting to give up where the sun hits it. So I'd say if you're having problems with paint it's not the paint but per Gizmo100 it's the prep.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

 

[garyb1st]

Whole house was painted before I moved in. Based on the hardness of the paint, it could very well be oil based. I washed the walls and sanded them lightly but didn't use a primer. I won't make that mistake again.

For interior paint it lasts as long as our taste for the color, exterior has about 20 years

Well at my age, 20 years is more than enough. I just turned 78 and the way I feel, I'm not even sure I'll survive my current painting projects. lol

 

[Oldgator73]

Well at my age, 20 years is more than enough. I just turned 78 and the way I feel, I'm not even sure I'll survive my current painting projects. lol

We don’t buy green bananas.

 

[garyb1st]

We don’t buy green bananas.

OK Gator, you have to explain that one. It's early and I didn't get much sleep last night. By the way, where are the emojis on the new software. Do they come with a paid subscription?

 

[phil-t]

In your reply - click on the menu (more options) at the top and then the emoji icon.

 

[Oldgator73]

OK Gator, you have to explain that one. It's early and I didn't get much sleep last night. By the way, where are the emojis on the new software. Do they come with a paid subscription?

We are old enough that green bananas probably won’t have time to ripen before we kick the bucket. Emojis are right above the text box.

 

[garyb1st]

Thanks Phil.

Gator for geezers.

 

[prnebs]

OK Gator, you have to explain that one. It's early and I didn't get much sleep last night. By the way, where are the emojis on the new software. Do they come with a paid subscription?

I had to laugh at that one! I think it means that at a certain age, it is considered risky to wait for the bananas to ripen.

 

[garyb1st]

In your reply - click on the menu (more options) at the top and then the emoji icon.
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Phil, how did you draw the arrows?

 

[Lou Schneider]

I use Microsoft Paint, standard equipment in Windows. Print-Screen to put the screen image in the buffer, open a New project in Paint and Paste the image there. Draw what you want and Save it as a .JPG to upload to the Forum.

OK Gator, you have to explain that one. It's early and I didn't get much sleep last night. By the way, where are the emojis on the new software. Do they come with a paid subscription?

Click on the three dots, then the sub-menu with emojis will appear.

 

[garyb1st]

Thanks Lou. Googled it for my iMac and came up with a pretty easy way. Actually I've done it before but thought Phil was doing something with the Forum software. Haven't found the equiv. of print screen on my iMac but can copy stuff to a text or word type file, save it and then mark it up using Preview. Just seems like there should be a quicker way. I was hoping that with an iPad or Windows equivalent, it would shortcut the effort and allow markups while posting to the Forum. I'm not only a Luddite, I'm a Lazy Luddite.

 

[phil-t]

Phil, how did you draw the arrows?

I use the built in Snipping Tool in WIN10. Capture the part of the screen you want and use the built in tool od Snipping Tool to annotate.

 

[phil-t]

Gary, been a while since I used a MAC but I believe the screen capture is dependant on the MAC OS version in use. Some of the more recent versions have a very useful utility.