Hi everyone,

I'm looking to repaint the concrete walls of my house's foundations (finished basement on the other side, not soil) and I'm looking to get the best / most durable combo for that purpose. We're looking to paint them in white and were thinking about using Loxon Primer + Emerald Rain Refresh, however the guy at Sherwin Williams also mentioned Loxon XP as an option (instead of Emerald).

Which option would be best in your opinion?

On a related note, we need to decide on a "shine" (between Flat, Satin, Gloss) for Emerald. What do people usually do for house foundations? Is the standard to use satin? We know it's definitely not gloss, but can't tell if satin or flat is the way to go.

Thanks!

First time poster so bear with me for any mistakes. This may be the wrong place to post but I’m desperate for help and wanted the experts advice. I purchased SW rain refresh to paint my wooden pool deck. Vertical and horizontal surfaces. I read all the reviews I could find and decided it would be worth the extra $ for the ease of cleaning. I have tons of trees that are always puking some kind of tree stuff on me so it’s a struggle to keep things clean. RR seemed like my best bet. The pool deck is less than one year old and I power washed the whole thing one day prior to begin painting. Picked a perfect day to paint, low humidity, no wind, temps perfect. I’m using 2 diff colors for the deck. I need to clarify that I also have two diff sheens because I messed up. I originally bought flat in my 2 colors (I also waited for the sale). Did a test with them and thought the sheen might prevent from the RR advantage of washing dirt away. So I went back to SW and bought satin in my 2 colors. The SW rep said I could use the flat as my base coat since it’s expensive and I’d like to not waste it. So that’s what I did. Got it all rolled (Purdy 1/2” nylon/poly as recommended) and proceeded to do touch ups. It looked beautiful. Fast forward 4 days later and a storm blew through and as always my trees dropped a lot of stuff. No biggie I thought, any dirt should wash off easily. But no, it is completely stained, dirty, and atrocious looking even on the vertical portions. No hose can touch it and to get it off I have to scrub really hard and still don’t get all of it up. It’s like stained in there I think. I go to SW to ask advice or what happened. They said it could have a cure time of 28 days. They recommended I buy the deck paint and repaint it and resign myself to always mopping it. I’m not ready to give up but it seems unreasonable to somehow protect it for 28 days from any rain. Not likely. And all the reviews I read raved about this stuff and never once mentioned a long ass cure time. So I’ve decided to give it another go after power washing it again. What can I do better or change to up my success? Did the flat + satin cause it? Not enough cure time? Some other reason. You can see from the pic just how awful it looks which is the exact opposite of what I paid a premium for. I appreciate any help.

my thinking is that since my house has plenty of sun, no tree shade, white is probably the best color and I see that Sherwin Williams white color with highest LRV is extra white. I may ask for additional white pigment as tint (2-4 oz per gallon) to improve hide.

the problem with white as opposed to grey, which I am also seriously considering, is that dirt shows up on it very easily.

I just recently learned of Sherwin Williams Emerald Rain Refresh and as I live in the Midwest, it does rain on a regular basis, in fact its raining now.

I like the idea of self-cleaning paint, in this case paint that sheds dirt when it naturally rains.

So my thinking is to paint my house white and when it gets dirty looking, regular rain from the sky and weather will clean it, with Rain Refresh.

Sherwin Williams says Rain Refresh is their top of the line, as good as Duration for longevity.

I'm also thinking of just 1 coat with Rain Refresh, estimate of 20-25 gallons for my house with 1 coat, since it is a premium product.

Do you have any experience with Rain Refresh, and is it as good as advertised? So I'm thinking of white paint with Rain Refresh.

If I choose grey color then I don't think I need Rain Refresh. Maybe some other product, maybe Duration or Superpaint

Hello all,

My painter gave me a quote for two coats of super paint for exterior repaint job, and I thought it was reasonable.

After I did a little research, it seems like rain refresh is a superior product which only requires one coat for repaint. Is it true that it only requires one coat? Why couldn’t contractor use rain refresh than super paint when the cost might come very close? Two coat of super paint should cost the same to one coat of rain refresh, don’t they?

Also, do anyone know the VOC level of rain refresh? I couldn’t find any information online.

Thanks for any inputs!

We are getting our 2100 square foot home exterior repainted. We live in Florida, a few houses from the beach.

The original quote was $4650 for primer and two coats of Duration. The painter said I can upgrade to Rain Refresh for $350 more.

Is it worth the upgrade? Also, living in Florida so close to the ocean, would one product be better for humidity, salt, etc?

Edit: Thanks everyone. Tomorrow morning I'll be letting my contractor know Rain Refresh it is.