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On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:56:38 GMT, "TC" wrote:

My mom is having her home painted. The guys who gave her the estimate
says he's going to mix the primer/sealer in with the paint and then
paint the house. This does not seem like a good idea. There's a reason
the primer/sealer goes on first. Or is this ok and done professionally?
If it's a bad idea what things can happen?

It's going over CBS (concrete blocks).

I think I met this guy. He goes to garage sales and second hand
stores and buys all the used paint he can find for under a buck a
gallon. Then he mixes it all together, indoor paint, exterior paint,
latex and oil base. Then he charges someone a huge price to paint
their house. He uses the same paint inside or out and the choice of
colors is pretty much limited to dirty gray and dirty brown.
Sometimes his paint jobs have texture, other times not. The texture
is from the oil paint mixed with the latex.

But rest assured, he will offer you at least a 10 year warrantee on
your paint job.

One year from now when the paint starts peeling off your house in
large sheets, you'll call him and his phone number will be
disconnected and his office vacated since he moved on to another town.

I think the same moron painted the apartment I lived in a couple of years
ago. Two weeks before I moved in, I stopped by to measure windows. He was
just starting to paint. He hadn't turned on the heat, so it was about 40
degrees in the place. I commented that the paint would never cure correctly.
He disagreed. Two weeks later, the glossy he used on the doors was still
sticky. Two months later, it was still sticky. Couldn't hang clothing from
coat hooks - it would stick to the doors. The apartment complex ended up
replacing the doors.