For best results fresh siding should be pre primed on all six sides with a stain blocking primer and top coated with 100 percent acrylic latex paint.
Best primer for bare wood siding.
Allows finish coat to achieve full and consistent sheen.
Adheres to previously painted surfaces and bare wood where stain blocking is not required.
Wooden framed windows far more expensive than siding so any bare wood on your window frames needs an extreme bonding primer first.
An exterior primer is as important as any of the top coats which go on after it.
Zinsser is a brand that is a part of the rust oleum family of paints and primers.
Alkyd oil primers are recommended but one may choose a high quality latex primer as long as it contains stain blockers.
Penetrates and seals bare wood for strong adhesion and a long lasting finish.
Those troubled spots say where oils are seeping through.
That still may be true especially if.
Good painters prime first.
But d amato and other excellent painters follow the recommendation of the forest products laboratory in madison wisconsin they pretreat bare wood with a clear paintable water repellent to keep the siding from absorbing moisture that gets past the paint.
Smoothest most luxurious finish.
Sure you can paint bare wood with a high quality exterior paint but if you want it to last prime it first.
This particular product is one of the oldest and most trusted shellac based primers and sealers on the market shellac based primer can be thought of as heavy duty stuff.
The two applications of primer were followed with two coats of high quality exterior latex paint for a clean smooth finish.
Zinsser b i n primer sealer great interior primer both for bare and painted wood.
Even using very best exterior lifetime paint i d still prime any bare wood window surfaces first before applying final finish coats even with a primer paint.
Exterior paints are designed to bond to paint than bare wood.
Prime exterior wood siding.
Places to use a high bonding exterior primer is any places you just filled.
Any places you scraped off to bare wood.
Bad painters brush paint on bare wood.
The thinking was that the oil based primer penetrated the wood fibers better than a latex primer ensuring a firmer bond and thus a longer lasting paint job.
Great for wood trim doors and walls.