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Well, fellas, I had a friend buy a house that he wants to update for his retirement in a few years. It did not look bad at all, and in fact it has pretty good bones at about 20 years old. I went at it pretty quickly, spraying the ceilings, but the first coat of Sherwin Williams from Lowes just did not cover so great. I went to the pro store for Sherwin Williams and got their better ceiling paint that contractors use. I went with Duration paint by SW and even though very expensive, it did not cover evenly on the test wall and took two coats. Our new plan is to use their proLoc primer tinted to the finish color. It only takes one coat of finish over the primer and looks like a million it seems that the house was painted to look good for staging the sale and the existing paint was so chalky that it pulled the life out of the finish paint. So two coats on walls and ceilings and walls on 1600 sq feet of house. I sprayed some ceilings with an airless and also used a power roller on the airless --depending on the size of the room and masking requirements There was so many dirt nibs in the old paint layers that I took an orbital [electric] body sander to quickly remove them. now we are on track for a quality job..I am also repairing a lot of cracks due to not enough nails in the metal drywall corners. I cut the drywall at the crack and cut a vee in the drywall bedding compound to expose a place to add screws to stabilize the corner bead. Then it is sticky mesh tape that is further glued down with a coat of primer. once the primer dries, we repair the surface with a coat of plaster based drywall mud that DOES NOT SHRINK and dries hard enough to sand in about 6 hours. I have some pretty good skills with drywall finishing and that helps. There is easily as much time spent prepping the house as painting it. Nail pops, repairing holidays in the drywall finish and such things as all the painting mistakes made through the years. The Pro-Loc primer goes on quickly and smooth with a 6" mini-roller. if I had a helper, I might consider power rolling the primer and back rolling with the mini roller. . Then it is on to new engineered hardwood floors and a new kitchen......
