Thread: Painting over lacquered timber?

Going by the Zinsser web site you maybe onto something there. But there still appears to be some preparation work. Good luck

Lacquer is inert once set so take the gloss off with some abrasive paper and just paint straight over it with any normal paint.

Hi Pikey

I have just discovered taubmans 3 in 1 (primer/sealer and base coat), its brilliant. paint it over gloss without sanding, its thickish and hides lots of sins as well.

I am currently using it on wooden door/window frames / fascias / gutters and basically every thing, I find when I use it I can get a way with 1 coat of new paint. I am using enamel on windows / doors and acrylic on the other stuff.

Celeste

The Taubmans 3 in 1 is a great product, but you will always get a better result if you make sure the surface is clean and not glossy.

Sugar soap to remove any dirt etc and then flatten with abrasive paper or better still a scothbrite pad especially if the timber has lots of moulded shape in it.

A few minutes spent doing this may save you lots of greif in the future.

Or you can take a gamble !!!

Hey Celeste & Durwood, where were you when I I was asking the other day what was the best sealer for painting gyprock?

I ended up getting no responses so tonight I went and bought Dulux, as I think they make the best paint across the whole range.

MH

Sorry metal head, never saw the post but I'm sure the Dulux will do a good job too.

A comment though!!

some questions get asked over and over again, often only days apart. I see there is one in this section about sealing gyprock only a few days old.

People arn't searching real well or at all and I admit often I have not answered questions as I have at other times answered them at length and I often don't have the time to do them all over agai,. but they do get lost in long threads.

I think an answer to part of this problem could be if common questions were put into a file that could be checked out first before asking a question.

This section could have answers to sealing gyprock, brick, etc with the answers and it might be a lot easier than finding them in a long thread. In painting there are a basic rules as to what can be done and what is not good practice and I'm sure that would be the case for a lot of problems people have with all aspects covered on the forum.

I suspect but that this would mean a lot of work for someone and I'm sure comments would follow decrying the answers and insisting others were the way to go.

Originally Posted by durwood

Sorry metal head, never saw the post but I'm sure the Dulux will do a good job too.

A comment though!!

some questions get asked over and over again, often only days apart. I see there is one in this section about sealing gyprock only a few days old.

People arn't searching real well or at all and I admit often I have not answered questions as I have at other times answered them at length and I often don't have the time to do them all over agai,. but they do get lost in long threads.

I think an answer to part of this problem could be if common questions were put into a file that could be checked out first before asking a question.

This section could have answers to sealing gyprock, brick, etc with the answers and it might be a lot easier than finding them in a long thread. In painting there are a basic rules as to what can be done and what is not good practice and I'm sure that would be the case for a lot of problems people have with all aspects covered on the forum.

I suspect but that this would mean a lot of work for someone and I'm sure comments would follow decrying the answers and insisting others were the way to go.

Hi Durwood,

I wasn't having a go at either of you, as it was more tongue in cheek than anything malicious.

I totally agree with your excellent idea, maybe we should call it something original like a "FAQ" section. as I said on another thread tonight, I frequently use the search facility to look for previous threads with the info I am after. Sometimes it finds something and I will add my post to it. However, there are times when something is fairly close but not exactly what I specifically wanted to ask. As of a consequence members maybe inclined to pass over it thinking they had already placed an answer in that thread so it is not worth going back there - if you get my drift?

Regards
MH

Hi Metal Head

Sorry about that, but I haven't been on thos site for a week until yesturday. Can you imagine how many posts I had to look thru.

I didn't look at the gyprock Q as I have never sealed it, only painted over pre painted and I didn't think of it - Sorry

Celeste