Hi All,
Over the last few years of renovation in my house I have always used Dulux solvent based paints.
As I redo each room, I am replacing all the woodwork. So, I've been using colron knotting solution, then dulux primer, 2 coats of dulux undercoat followed by 2 coats of dulux satinwood, and I have been pleased with the results.
Started the most recent project and I have primed about half of it, and run out of primer. Popped out to the diy shed to buy some more only to be told it's not available any more.
Yet, they still send undercoat, gloss & satinwood which all say on the can to use dulux wood primer.
The only primer products remaining are specialist (metals and "difficult surface) primers, and the water based primer/undercoat.
I've rung the dulux advice line and the technical person didn't even know what primer was, so when she told me I could use the waterbased product with solvent based on top, I'm not particularly filled with confidence.
Furthermore, I read around on here and elsewhere that most the solvent paints have been reformulated and therefore any satinwood I buy won't be the same as the satinwood i've got half a can of from a previous project. And the new stuff is quite prone to yellowing.
So I don't really know what to do. I need more primer, which I can't get. Or I could start again with a different paint system? or, I could finish priming with a waterbased primer and continue with solvent undercoat and satinwood?
Or should I just switch to trade paints? Although it looks like dulux trade primer is grey?
any recommendations much appreciated.
thanks
Slip
Over the last few years of renovation in my house I have always used Dulux solvent based paints.
As I redo each room, I am replacing all the woodwork. So, I've been using colron knotting solution, then dulux primer, 2 coats of dulux undercoat followed by 2 coats of dulux satinwood, and I have been pleased with the results.
Started the most recent project and I have primed about half of it, and run out of primer. Popped out to the diy shed to buy some more only to be told it's not available any more.
Yet, they still send undercoat, gloss & satinwood which all say on the can to use dulux wood primer.
The only primer products remaining are specialist (metals and "difficult surface) primers, and the water based primer/undercoat.
I've rung the dulux advice line and the technical person didn't even know what primer was, so when she told me I could use the waterbased product with solvent based on top, I'm not particularly filled with confidence.
Furthermore, I read around on here and elsewhere that most the solvent paints have been reformulated and therefore any satinwood I buy won't be the same as the satinwood i've got half a can of from a previous project. And the new stuff is quite prone to yellowing.
So I don't really know what to do. I need more primer, which I can't get. Or I could start again with a different paint system? or, I could finish priming with a waterbased primer and continue with solvent undercoat and satinwood?
Or should I just switch to trade paints? Although it looks like dulux trade primer is grey?
any recommendations much appreciated.
thanks
Slip