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Originally Posted by jayerose
My house is 8 years old and am guessing that the trim/baseboards were painted with oil based paint.
When the rest of the house was painted a few weeks ago professionally, the painters sanded the trim/baseboards prior to painting them.
What I can tell from my google research, sanding is required if they painted with a latex paint.
Can I paint the closet trim/baseboards with oil based paint and skip the sanding?
thank you!
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My two cents worth-for free
Sanding the molding. You are likely to sand only the high spots. I don't know if it is still made there was a product called NO SAND, that would clean the molding and soften the paint. My view, is the old saying if you don't have the time to do it right the first time you will need time to do it again. I would use primer. Logic, you need to clean all the stuff you/we have tucked into your/our closets that and the prep is the biggest part of the job.
Oil based paint? You may have trouble finding it. I think thanks to the EPA. Varnish, I do not like water based varnish as it raises the grain on raw wood. I resorted to marine varnish, it is expensive and it is spar varnish never fully hardens.