I got new cabinets for my kitchen and I'm planning on spraying the doors and frames with Sherwin-Williams Emerald Urethane Trim. I did a bit of research and just picked up a Graco Magnum Project Painter Plus airless sprayer, which I believe will be able to spray the paint with little to no thinning. Cabinets are currently prepped but unfinished and I'll be spraying them in a makeshift booth in my garage.
My question is what do you guys recommend as a primer? My understanding is that I should put a primer down first to seal the wood and make sanding easier to achieve a smooth finish coat. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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About to start the journey of painting our kitchen cabinets. We visited our local SW and picked some samples and were told of the advantages of using Emerald Urethane despite the long cure time. My plan is to use liquid sandpaper as the first step. My question is regarding the primer… which would be ideal to use? I have a gallon of bullseye 123 which I was planning to use, but haven’t found any saying it would be recommended to pair with Emerald Urethane.
Any advice welcome. TIA!
I'm sanding an antique chest of drawers to be converted into our daughter's changing table. I've sanded using 80 grit and am about to sand using 150. I've selected SW Emerald Urethane semigloss but I'm curious if I need to prime the furniture before the first coat of urethane paint?
I don’t think this is technically recommended but I have done this in my own house and done this cheat a few times with zero issues… the urethane bonds incredibly well, so I can guarantee that it will stick just fine and you won’t have any peeling in the upcoming years.
Urethane however doesn’t stop anything from bleeding through so you could do an entire first coat in urethane, then spot prime any yellowing with shellac or extreme bond oil. Then top coat again with urethane. The biggest risk is that the entire thing basically yellows from tannin or old stain or whatever.
Preprite pro block or extreme bond primer. PRIME FIRST please for the love of god dont skip priming or your paint will chip off. Emerald doesnt adhere to substrates without primer it will fail. Sand, prime, fill, sand, paint, sand again and paint again.
On the SW website, Emerald Urethane Trim Enamel is promoted as an “Interior/exterior waterbased urethane modified alkyd with the look and feel of an alkyd/oil finish.” My question is whether this product is a paint and primer. Other Emerald paints state that they are, yet I can’t find primer info on Emerald Urethane Trim Enamel specifically.
It’ll be used to re-paint over oil-based paint on trim and baseboards.
I usually wash, sand, and prime. The contractor only wants to scuff sand, and they already started cutting corners by not scuffing. Also, they prefer the paint brand with a woodland animal on it from a home improvement store.
The walls I'm trying to paint are a darkish yellow in one room and a beige color in the other room. I want to paint the walls a light blue/gray color. Since the Emerald paint is a paint and primer do I need primer if the colors being covered aren't that dark?