Best water based undercoat primer?

[JiSingh1]

Hi guys,

I'm using acrylic satinwood as my topcoat, WRX Satinwood.

For the undercoat / primer, what do people recommend? Should it be an acrylic based one to match?

Such as Johnstones Trade Joncryl Acrylic or Leyland Trade Acrylic Primer Undercoat, or should I use something like Dulux Quick Dry Primer Undercoat?

thanks

 

[yartin]

I keep buying Leyland Acrylic Primer Undercoat, use them or new timber and new mdfs, doors, skirtings and mfcs.

 

[opps]

As above, my go to acrylic primer is Leyland Trade. Not only is very cheap, it is easy to sand.

When, for example, painting MDF, is sand it back so much that I can hardly see any of it. Once I reach that stage I can be assured that I have sanded away the parallel sanding lines that are present on all MDF.

The Dulux primer is a pig to sand and clogs the paper.

The Leyland stuff isn't very good at obliterating the existing surface colourwise though. For me that isn't a problem because I then use oil based eggshell over it.

All waterbased paints will cause the grain in wood or MDF to swell. As mentioned previously, that is why I use the Leyland primer- effectively treating it as sacrificial given that I will sand it back. If however, I were going to use a waterbased finish (and the customer insisted that no oil based paints were used) I would probably use either the Johnstones or Dulux as the first coat after the Leyland.

 

[whatsthenews]

Another one for Leyland trade acrylic. It can also be used on plaster. We used it on all our ceilings after we'd removed wallpaper. They were good enough to paint ( 60s house. Must have been the trend later in 60s or 70s to paper ceilings) , but in the past, despite washing down and rinsing and repeat about 3 times, we had areas where the emulsion crackled.
Using the primer stopped it.

 

[michealangelo]

What is the best performing acrylic primer undercoat ?

Mcphersons and Johnstones are cheap

 

[johnny2007]

Leyland Trade Acrylic Primer Undercoat

This one

 

[michealangelo]

This one

Getting a lot of votes