Your primer coat is really important when painting new dry wall, as it preps the surface of the walls and ceiling to improve the paint's adhesion and coverage. But how many coats of primer do you need ...

Primer BasicsYou would never apply paint directly to your car's metal or fiberglass surface, right? It's a simple concept-primer sticks to metal and paint sticks to primer. The primer coat seals the ...

When Editor Kinnan laid out the plan for this paint series, he headedthis installment with these words: "There are too many options! How doyou choose primer, sealer, paint, clear, and so on?" So we ...

Many people think that primers are useful only when doing exterior painting, but that’s a mistaken notion. Like exterior primers, interior primers make surfaces more uniform and help paint adhere ...

It has long been said that a paint job is only as good as the prep, but that leaves out the answer of just how to get there. A decent paint job will take a fairly intensive amount of prep ...

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