What Paint Type Should I Use?
Before you start you will need to find out the ins and outs of different paints. I will tell you about oil solvent based paint and latex water based . Shiny paint doesn t mean oil base paint; you can get shiny latex too. Generally, oil base paints go on trim, doors and windows, wood parts of the home and sometimes in the kitchen and bathrooms. If you are repainting, find out first what is on the surface. Latex won t adhere to shiny oil based surfaces. When I repaint shiny white trim in a home over with white shiny paint, I use oil base to cut my time down. This saves me from priming first which is a step that is unnecessary for this type of result. But don t forget a lot of new homes these days are painted with shiny latex. Homes that are over 20 to 25 years old, chances are the trim and shiny surfaces are oil based. Some considerations you should be aware of before starting are clean-up...