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Prepare for Priming with Fast-Dry Oil Primer

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Painters Beware: What is Wax Bleed and Solutions to Fix It.

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Understand that painting directly over wax bleed, especially with water-based paints, will lead to premature paint failure, often demonstrated by paint peeling off when masking tape is applied. To mitigate this, a fast-dry oil primer is the recommended treatment. This type of primer has been shown through extensive research (e.g., with Sherwin Williams and Columbia Paints) to adhere better to the waxy surface. Although it is considered a temporary solution as hydrocarbons may eventually bleed through even the primer over time, it significantly prolongs the paint's lifespan compared to untreated surfaces.

Goal: After confirming wax bleed, prepare the affected areas for priming. The critical step is to apply a fast-dry oil primer, as it offers the best temporary solution for adhesion, unlike water-based paints that will fail.

Tools and materials

  • Fast-Dry Oil Primer (e.g
  • Sherwin Williams)

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surface areas that have wax hydrocarbons on them. You have to treat it properly. But as a professional painter, I've done a lot of research with Sherman Williams and Columbia paints when it comes to this and dealing with chemists and coming up with solutions to this problem. This is a failure in the sighting and you have to understand that you as a painter, you can never warranty this. We've come up with a solution that's basically a temporary solution, but eventually the wax hydrocarbons will bleed through the primer that we recommend doing. It will eventually break down the primer over time and then that won't stick either. If you leave the house alone, if you don't do anything to it that the paint is not just going to fall off, it will be just fine. It's when you put something on there like tape, like if a customer, one customer massed how to fence up against the house, he's going to stain the fence. He massed off around the house, pulled the tape off and it pulled the paint off. That's the kind of thing that's going to cause the paint to actually come off and fail. If you leave it alone, it's like a glove, it's not just going to fall off, it's going to stay just fine. But you need to use a fast dry oil primer. We've tested all kinds of different primers and most of them fail and fail over time. The fast dry oil primer lasts for the longest amount of time, but eventually the hydrocarbons will even bleed through that, bleed through your paint and eventually it's going to fail. So you cannot, you cannot warranty a project like this. I have it disclosed in my bid packet

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