Some minor cracks in the ceiling we opted to glue and then caulk instead of opening them up. With swirl, you can hide cracks easier than you can actually repairing them. Especially if their small like these
We tried the new SEAL GRIP Interior/Exterior Universal Alkyd Primer that is NYS compliant as a possible replacement for our go to oil primer, however we are not satisfied with Seal Grip Alkyd. We won’t be using that again! After 5 HOURS the primer was still tacky!
Coverage seemed on par with our primers and overspray was very low. Given the textured ceiling we used a big fluffy roller and noticed that overspray was significantly less than our preferred primer. Also it didn’t drag the brush as bad making it easier to work with. It took just under a gallon to do that ceiling. Not bad.
But the dry time, and the smell. Deal breakers. Especially the smell! How this stuff is NYS Compliant is beyond me. It is that bad! We used our regular oil primer the next day in the kitchen, and then painted that same ceiling in 1 8 hour day.
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