STEP 2 – Choose the right primer
Priming is a key step in painting. Priming before painting ensures superior adhesion of the paint to the surface. It also helps cover darker colored paints and stains, and creates a smoother, more even finish. There are many different types of primers, each suited for a particular surface (such as drywall, metal or concrete, etc.) or to address a particular problem (such as to cover up stains or to prevent tannin bleeding, etc.). Cloverdale Paint offers a variety of different premium interior primers for each surface type:
DRYWALL
Horizon Interior Latex Primer, Premium Hi-Hide Drywall Sealer, and Cloverdale Paint Interior Sealer are water-based acrylic primer/sealers that offers excellent sealing qualities on new drywall and dries fast for same-day finishing.
STAIN BLOCKING
Prime Solutions Stain Blocking Primer is a high-hiding, low VOC, waterborne acrylic primer for use on a variety of previously painted or new interior and exterior surfaces.
MULTI-PURPOSE
Prime Solutions Stain Blocking Primer is a low VOC, waterborne, acrylic multi-purpose primer that provides superior adhesion, outstanding stain-blocking, excellent enamel holdout and great hide.
UNDERCOATER
Cloverdale Paint Quick Dry Undercoat is an acrylic enamel primer/under coater that provides excellent hide and sealing qualities for interior wood, hardboard and wallboard.
MASONRY
Formworx Concrete Conditioner is an epoxy-fortified acrylic primer/sealer that provides very good resistance for efflorescence and alkali.
BLOCK FILLER
Premium Classic Latex Block Filler is a heavy-bodied acrylic primer/filler that fills and bridges voids and cracks in porous cinder block and concrete block.
METAL
Ecologic WB Shop Primer and is a high performance, interior/exterior, low VOC, single component, water-based acrylic primer offering excellent corrosion resistance and outstanding adhesion on ferrous metals.
Cloverdale Paint Inorganic Zinc Primer is single component, interior/exterior. non-ferrous and ferrous metal primer providing excellent adhesion to properly prepared and etched galvanized metal, as well as to other non-ferrous metals, such as aluminum, brass and copper.
For any additional questions, please ask any of our Cloverdale Paint representatives.