NFT: Question for BBI painters

but curious... Why would you prime and not paint for 3-4 months? Why not just knock it all out at the same time?

at all

baby due in January, not finding out sex. Would like to get as much done now as I can so all I have to do is paint when we know what color.

Congrats!!!

yeah I'd rather prime now and let it off gas as much as possible

they do make self priming paint, which has the primer and paint in one single application. I've used it with no problems, as long as the wall wasn't too dark and fairly neutral.

so paint is not soaked up by the rock...the sealing properties of primer does not diminish over time, so this would be perfectly fine

In comment 14134601 DC Gmen Fan said:

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baby due in January, not finding out sex. Would like to get as much done now as I can so all I have to do is paint when we know what color.

Paint it yellow

but it won't be as 'clean' as a freshly primed wall because of dust and dirt. If there's not much traffic in that room, I wouldn't worry about that (and congrats!).

When you go to paint in a few months!

You wouldn't believe how much dust and cobwebs and crap collects on the walls.

In comment 14134629 jcn56 said:

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but it won't be as 'clean' as a freshly primed wall because of dust and dirt. If there's not much traffic in that room, I wouldn't worry about that (and congrats!).

I would generally agree with this. As a technical manner, once the primer fully cures, the topcoat will not adhere to it quite as well. But it’s probably not enough to worry about provided you’re using quality paints.

The Ben Moore Regal has a primer built in but I want to do a prime coat mainly to hide the current color better.

Thanks for the info guys

In comment 14134678 DC Gmen Fan said:

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The Ben Moore Regal has a primer built in but I want to do a prime coat mainly to hide the current color better. Thanks for the info guys

Regal (and other similarly marketed paints) don’t really have primers built in. A quality primer does 4 things:

1) Seals surfaces to prevent bleed thru.
2) Adheres extremely well to surfaces.
3) Topcoats adhere extremely well to it.
4) Blocks colors of previous coats of paint.

Paints like Regal that advertise being paint & primer in one have a high pigment content, and thus do a good job at color blocking. But it’s not a true primer, so it doesn’t do any of the first 3 jobs a primer does.

then do that now as well.

In comment 14134717 EricJ said:

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then do that now as well.

Did that today. Pain in the ass

. expect threads about that soon!