Video: Knowing Your Painting Surface

LOS GATOS — Host, Sarah Rutan: Prior to repainting a wall in your home, it’s important to know the character of the existing paints surface. Today we’re in Los Gatos with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Cleve Dayton to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Cleve Dayton: In my experience one of the biggest problems homeowners have when they’re painting is before they paint, they haven’t determined whether the existing paint surface is oil base or water base. If they’re painting with water base now, they need to know what the surface is that they’re painting. If it’s oil base, you cannot paint water base over oil. If it’s water base, you can certainly paint water base over that. If you find out that it’s oil base, it needs to be sanded completely and primed and then you can paint it. If you don’t sand it and prime it, you’re going to find that the water-based paint is actually going to literally just peel right off of the oil-based surface.

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