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#1 ·
Will be listing the house in 6 months Is it better for resale value to spray interior crown molding, baseboards, door & window trim and doors than have brush marks?
 
#4 ·
Lfinger, buy a quality paint, a quality brush, thin the paint a bit, a bit, and take your time. There's no reason that a brush can't provide a perfectly acceptable finish. It's been serving me for some twenty five years. I've never sprayed trim in my life.
The amount of masking and set-up required to spray trim in place in an existing, lived in home would be monumental to completely impractical. It's almost not even an option.
I applaud your effort to do a nice job prior to market. Most people just slap point on without any prep and that creates a real headache for the new owners. Kudos.
 
#7 ·
Lfinger, buy a quality paint, a quality brush, thin the paint a bit, a bit, and take your time. There's no reason that a brush can't provide a perfectly acceptable finish. It's been serving me for some twenty five years. I've never sprayed trim in my life.
The amount of masking and set-up required to spray trim in place in an existing, lived in home would be monumental to completely impractical. It's almost not even an option.
I applaud your effort to do a nice job prior to market. Most people just slap point on without any prep and that creates a real headache for the new owners. Kudos.

me either:no:
 
#5 ·
I do a lot of spraying, in this case the way to go is brush by the time you mask everything and I mean everything, then spray then clean up tools and over spray you could be done. Use a good quality paint that self levels or thin with a little flotral or BIM extender this will eliminate most of your brush marks and give a little more work time. And don't forget to use the blue painters tape.
 
#6 · (Edited)
Yup! Although most quality paints have excellent self-leveling themselves, a little extender can really help pull out brush strokes. This assuming you use a good brush to start.

The new waterbased alkyds are getting good reviews here. People seem to like Ben Moore Advance, or the Sherwin Williams equivalent, for instance. It was after my time so I have no experience with it. Supposedly they have better leveling and longer work times than their acrylic counterparts.
 
#13 ·
A little off topic here.....but.....

Why is that people spend so much time and money on their house just so they can sell it? Why not fix it up so you can live in it and enjoy it?

Personally.....unless the paint is in bad shape....I doubt it will make much difference in price.....I'm seeing a majority of people repaint the house before or when they move in....especially when the wife is pregnant.....
 
#14 ·
A little off topic here.....but.....

Why is that people spend so much time and money on their house just so they can sell it? Why not fix it up so you can live in it and enjoy it?

Personally.....unless the paint is in bad shape....I doubt it will make much difference in price.....I'm seeing a majority of people repaint the house before or when they move in....especially when the wife is pregnant.....

What I see is people that whack a coat of paint up there not giving a dam how it looks, just that they can say "It was freshly painted". I don't know how many jobs I have seen this year where latex was painted over un prepped oil just so they could sell this disaster to the next unsuspecting person.More work for me but I hate sanding :furious:
 
#16 ·
Right- trim- a job for brush. Sprays are , well, have their applications. Also, never seen a water base paint that doesnt leave streaks/brush marks. May be it exists, but just that I have never seen it. Oil is the only almost streak free paint.
 
#18 ·
Right- trim- a job for brush. Sprays are , well, have their applications. Also, never seen a water base paint that doesnt leave streaks/brush marks. May be it exists, but just that I have never seen it. Oil is the only almost streak free paint.

try this with a good brush
 

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