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Water Based Satin Wood Exterior

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  • 04-07-2016 9:33am
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    p00674605
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    We had to put up scaffolding recently to replace a dormer window and I thought i'd also take this opportunity to paint around the window and paint the guttering, facia etc. I went to B&Q and asked for a Satinwood in the chosen colour and i was given Valspar Waterbased Satinwood along with a a primer. The gutters and facia were previously painted with an oil based paint. I painted on the primer anyway followed by the actual paint.

    When the whole thing was finished after a whole month of working on it every evening after work I came across an article which warned to stay away from water based satinwood as it was useless. You can imagine my heart, it literally dropped and I think I stopped breathing for a minute.

    I am now worried that what I have done was pointless and I've read that you can't paint oil based over water based so if I decided to go over the whole thing I'd need to first remove all of the water based??? Is this correct?

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated as the scaffolding is coming down in a week and I am not prepared to pay another 2K for scaffolding in a hurry!

    Please help!
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