DIYbanter - View Single Post - Can't find oil based interior semi-gloss

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Thanks. The problems are now obvious.

They don't use or sell much oil-based where I live. If they
do, they call it "Alkyd" which I thought was water-based.
I also didn't search for alkyd.

After I got a quart of Sherwin-Williams "SuperPaint" latex
wall paint, I asked the price of a quart of oil-based semi-gloss.
When he said "We only have latex," he may have meant
in the SuperPaint line. The Classic 99 paints show "oil"
as an option. You have to search the site for "oil".

You need to search for "paint OR enamel". It seems some
companies no longer want to sell "paint". Three boos for
marketing.

When you included the word "price" in your search, you exclude
Sherwin Williams products because the company site does
not list prices, and the dealers don't have websites.

I wasted time stopping by paint departments in mega-stores,
lumber companies, and hardware stores.

I have a question for you. Why do you want to use oil paint?

If a manufacturer warns about anything when recoating, it's about
surface preparation. Cleaning the trim is mandatory, sanding isn't.
There are paint additives and liquid deglossers that will soften the
existing paint, so you can use latex.

Old school painters will claim the flowability of oil paints is
superior, but latex paints have improved so much that that is no longer
the case.

I always think it's a good idea to look to the future and minimize
headaches down the road, rather than remain locked into a dated
technology. By painting with oil paint now, instead of biting a
verrrry small bullet, you're just postponing the transition to latex.
And you're paying for that with a paint that yellows. So why oil?

R