THE PERFECT PAINT JOB ON UNPAINTED WOOD OR BARE SPOTS

1. Prime coat of oil primer (408-01) thinned about 1/3 with paint thinner to gain ultimate penetration.
2. A full coat of Acrylic Latex Primer 454-01
3. A full coat of Acrylic Latex Overcoat Flat 460-01.

Why a coat of 100% Acrylic Primer and 100% Acrylic Finish Coat? Ever the very best paints contain 60% water,-lesser quality paints, often sold by national companies as premium paints, contain even more water. While drying, your painting surface shrinks a minimum of 60%-resulting in a very thin firm. Therefore, two coats of acrylic are essential to provide adequate film thickness (when dry) and ultimate protection.

HOUSES PAINTED WITH LATEX

If there is no gloss, wash off the chalking surface and consider the existing oil paint as the oil primer described in step 1 of the Perfect Paint Job. Prime that base coat with an acrylic primer and finish with an acrylic topcoat. Glossy surfaces will require a full coat of oil primer finished with an acrylic topcoat. What if you don't want to do two or three coats?

1. Use oil paint applying one coat of Passonno's 400-01 (Popular Color Combinations / Rustic Colors) Super House Paint.
2. Paint with 100% acrylic, but accept the fact that you need to add another coat within one year, and that until you do, you won't have the Perfect Paint Job.

WHAT ABOUT BAD SPOTS ON THE HOUSE

Use the first two steps of the Perfect Paint Job before painting the complete house with 480-01 Flat or 460-01 Gloss. (That means oil primer and acrylic latex primer and acrylic finish on all surfaces.)

NEW WOOD

New wood left unprotected for even one month is damaged by the suns ultra violet rays. The surface of the wood is damaged and must be sanded prior to painting.

SURFACE PREPARATION

The most important part of your paint job is the surface preparation. Read directions on the paint can. To have a good paint job, dirt, grease, and chalking must be removed. Use household bleach to remove mildew. Older homes with blown in insulation or poor ventilation may require air passages or vent plugs. Today, pressure washers or a car wash brush on the end of a garden hose makes the cleaning easier. Time invested in surface preparation pays big dividends.

The Perfect Paint Job requires the perfect primer. A good building requires the proper foundation.

1. Select a primer designed for your particular substrate. No matter how you cut it, one product will not do everything as well as a specially designed product.
   
2. Perfect finish coats are composed of high solids 100% Acrylic latex. In flats, the volume pigment in the film cannot exceed 40% and you must have 40% volume solids (dry paint). National paints are not always 100% Acrylic and don't have 40% volume (not weight) solids.

A. 408-01 LINSEED OIL PRIMER

This is the ideal primer for porus wood. Our "Perfect Paint Job" sheet specifies a thin coat of 408-01 Linseed Oil Primer followed by 454-01 Acrylic Primer and 480 or 460 Finish Coats. This still holds true for porus wood or spot primes on wood repaints where failure has occurred.

B. 454-01 HIGH SOLIDS ACRYLIC PRIMER

An Acrylic primer designed the Rohm & Haas ML-200 Acrylic will adhere best to a surface that has some chalk. It is still Important to power wash or scrub off as much of the chalk as possible. This primer is ideal on aluminum siding and as the first latex coat over 408 linseed oil primer. This primer also has the highest volume solids and results in the greatest film build of all Passonno latex primers.

C. 605-13 ACRYLIC STAIN BLOCKING PRIMER

This primer has great adhesion. 605- primer is designed with MV-23LO Acrylic which is the best adhering latex to a hard smooth surface, such as an old non-chalking oil film, metal (not galvanized) and factory primed sidings. For Mildew surfaces, extra Mildex additive should be added.

D. 605-01 PEN RUST 100% ACRYLIC GALVANIZED METAL PRIMER

This special Rohm & Haas vehicle adheres to galvanized and ferrous metal surfaces. It contains an anti-rust inhibiting pigment. This latex is excellent against flash rusting. This primer is the best primer for latex direct to metal. Ideal top coats are high solids 480 Latex Flat, 460 Latex Gloss or 240 Latex High Gloss.

Why three coats you may ask? Due to hills and valleys of the surface, it takes three coats to make sure that there is a full two coats. When the surface is clean, the second and third coats are the easiest to apply. Rohm and Haas test fences show that three coats have a chance for a twelve year paint job.