I renewed some exterior woodwork, which I am going to paint with oil-based paint. I first primed the wood with a B&Q primer which was erroneously described as "solvent based" on their website. When I came to clean the paint brush I realized the primer was water based. Can I use oil-based paint over this primer as this is the same paint that I've used on the surrounding woodwork which didn't need renewing? Thanks for any advice on this.
Oil-based paint over water-based primer?
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Oil based paint is fine to use on water based but, if you've only used a primer, you should undercoat before top-coating. If you've used a combined primer undercoat, you can go ahead with the topcoat(s), although more than one single coat of a p/u is always better.
Thanks for that. I've just put primer on so will need to u/c as well. Thanks again.
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