I’m going to paint my kitchen. It was a new house when we bought it (13 years ago) and we haven’t painted it. Is TSP the best product to clean the walls and what type of paint should I use? (I think flat was used originally)
Thanks,
Irene
Tom: Trisodium phosphate is what TSP is and anytime you want to wash something down before you paint it with a water-based/latex paint, you use a trisodium phosphate in water. Anytime you’re going to do woodwork and use an oil-based paint, and if we’re talking about cabinets, that’s what I would tell her to use, then we use a liquid deglosser which is not a TSP, so no, the answer would be no, if it’s going to be that category.
The type of paint to use would be an oil-based paint on your cabinets and a liquid deglosser before you do it, so you degloss it, you prime it if you’re changing the colors; then you do all the caulking; then you do the final paint, all of the oil-based products and the primer and the paint is the same brand, Pittsburgh/Pittsburgh, Sherman Williams/Sherman Williams, so on and so forth.
Charlie: Now if she’s just painting the walls and not the cabinets, then it’s a latex paint?
Tom: Usually latex paint, unless you’re rocking; then you go to the TSP. That’s why I just wanted to cover the whole gamut.
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