All……….Client has 2?12 vaulted cieling in a work shop would like to know if I would paint the osb before I put it up. I told him I would check with my painting experts and get back with him
It’s 1/2 in and was wonderin type of primer and finish coat (white) , rough side out or slick side . Also type of fasteners. I’ll print out your suggestions and present them to the client and let him choose, ……..Thanks all
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Whenever you paint it, I think i'd go with an oil based primer. For some reason it seems to me like if you dont use oil base you'll get some staining or bleed through.
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That's absolutely right...that's what will happen...ask me how I know!
I know you can paint the stuff, latex will work fine, but why on earth people do I'll never know.
Instead of paint - what about shellacing whichever side has not printing on it?
I've seen wall finishes like that, and they are very interesting to the eye.
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Look, just send me to my drawer. This whole talking-to-you thing is like double punishment.
I did a temporary set of countertops for a client once. I knew it would be months before his granite would come, so I bought some mdf, ogee'd the edges and put about 12 coats of poly on them. He loved them, he thought it looked like some kind of sandstone. those tops held up great for the 9 mos they were in service.
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Thanks All.......was setting here thinking ,I wonder if D mix would work .
yes.
Good place to try and learn.
david.
wow it took 9 months to get your granite? about 9 days here max
No, it took nine months for Expo Design Center to get the three cabinets they screwed up, right.
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for a shop... light reflection I assume is the motive.... yes you can paint it... if it's just for a clean lighter look then... fast dry'n white water based KILZ will go on fast and look fine
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Nails,
fire code? is he covering sheetrock with OSB? or is it in leu of sheetrock?
I'd like to suggest an alternative ....
A "white" wood stain. You'll get the light color, while still having the character of the chips show through.
I doubt paint, of any kind, will completely hide the wood patterns ... so make them part of "the look" instead.
If he does want it to be smooth, shiny white .... I'd mix up a 50/50 wood glue/water potion, and "paint" with that as a sealer. Then latex paint over that. Another approach is a skim coat of joint compound over the 'rough' side, followed by primer and paint.
I'd paint it with exterior flat white acrylic. A shop ceiling may be just a little hostile to interior paint.
Some of you guys are awful free with the use of latex primers on regular osb. I find that it might go on and look ok for a while but those chips can start to curl after a bit and mess up.
I vote to vacate any waterbase primer and go to an oil as a sealer.
Water and osb, no good.View Image
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Edited 12/25/2008 8:18 pm ET by rez
I did the inside of my garage with OSB primed with Olympic oil based primer (about $10/gallon from Lowe's) and a tan latex topcoat, on the ceiling I used white. The cheap Olympic covered/blocked better than a few of the better named (can't remember) primers I had around at the time. I used sheetrock screws to put it up. It covered better by painting the OSB laying on the floor instead of putting it up and then painting. The paint soaks into the nooks and crannies of the OSB better when you use gravity to your advantage. Hit the screwheads with a brush when I was done.
I'm on the same page as Rez about wanting an oil primer, but let me tell you about one...
A garage here where they do body work, welding, and mufflers in addition to all the mechanical - tires and tune ups. Three sections to this place, maybe a hundred feet by sixty feet altogether.
for years he had bare stud and sheathing walls, then when heat started getting more expensive about ten years or so back, he hired me to do the walls with FG batts and OSB inside so he could hang stuff on it. some walls 18-20' tall.
He made a mix of all the cheap latex paint he had leftover from this and that and from the give-away counter at the paint store from miss-mixed gallons, and sprayed it on two coats.
Still fine today, other than being dirty - and the fact that the mix turned out to be pink. He got a lot of kidding about that for a few months.
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My first house I did something similar.. I went around and got all the blue mismixed paint I could light, dark, whatever. Back then it was $1.00 a gallon. mixed it all in a 50 gallon barrel and did all the exterior trim work with it.. shutters, soffit, windows, doors garage door etc.. etc..
Came out a flat blue with a hint of slate in it. Was still looking good 9 years later when I sold the house and it was torn down!
Put it up with the smooth side in, just as if you were putting it on the outside walls of a building. Put some screws in it. Use a primer like "Jammer" or "Gripper" which you can get at the Home Depot or the ICI Glidden stores. This will stop the bleed through of any resin and glue in he OSB. Then put on whatever color you desire, preferably a semi-gloss or satin finish for easy clean up.
Good Luck
Steve