Understanding Primer Selection and Application

us here. We're just going to talk about the products. So, John, the first the very first thing we do is prime the cabinets and what do we use to prime them with? So, typically we will always whether we are doing a recotating over a previously lacquered job or it's a new wood, we will always prime with a a product called uh primer surfacer uh which is done by the Sheron Williams chemical coatings division. Um you know, we've used the lacquer underco before. To me, the primer surfacer has a couple of things going for it. one, I don't have to thin it in order to send it through an HVLP, which is is big. You know, every time you have to thin something, you do run the risk of degrading that product even a little bit. Um, that primer surfacer also tends to fill grain up. So, especially if we're we're working with uh like oak cabinets or something like that that are going from a lacquered oak to like a solid pigmented color, it t it doesn't fill that grain all the way, but it does help fill up those pores so you don't have that dark shadowing. Yep. So, we've had a lot of success with the the primer surfacer and we've had um a lot of success with it painting oak cabinets and oak cabinets are extremely grainy and um so it's worked out really well for us. And a quick disclaimer about primers, you you need to understand that whatever primer you do use needs to be it needs to work with the the lacquer system that you are using because depending on the system, certain primers or certain undercoaters won't work with certain top coats and you're going to run into a very big very expensive mess if you if you don't verify those things. So, wherever you're getting your lacquer and your undercoaters from, do make sure that everything will work together and play nicely. And I think you mentioned that was a