Skip to main content
Stesso

Painting furniture, the right primer. Fixing contaminated surfaces! #furnitureflip #flip

1:09
22.9K views

Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

This video demonstrates a specific problem encountered during furniture refinishing, known as 'fisheye' contamination, and provides a clear solution. It shows how contaminants on a wood surface can cause paint or primer to pull away, leaving visible imperfections. The video then details the use of a shellac-based primer, specifically Zinsser B-I-N, as an effective barrier to encapsulate these contaminants, ensuring a smooth and consistent surface for subsequent topcoats.

Transcript

Hide

So, I've got a piece of furniture right here or a mirror. And we ran into some real problems with fisheye on there. If you haven't heard of the term fisheye, that's um what a result of what happens if you got a contaminant on a piece of furniture or cabinets or some type of wood painted surface. When you spray paint on it or a primer, it'll fisheye away. I usually keep a um shellac based primer and it's typically Ben. So Ben is a shellac based primer and this is what I've come to use to resolve any type of contamination issues on cabinets, on furniture when painting

Auto-generated from the video audio.