What paint to use for porch floor.

PaBull, I’m a stain and tung oil guy, but I think I would go by a couple of different paint stores, ie. Sherwin Williams, Benjamin Moore, etc, and get their advice. See where they agree and go with one of those products.
I don’t have to tell you, if the guy acts like he’s blowing smoke, go somewhere else. Also take a look on these sights, there’s a wealth of info heres. Happy Painting.
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/home-exterior
http://www.oldhousejournal.com/
http://www.oldhouseweb.com/

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Thanks Tim, you are always there with some good advise. I will check out the sites and make my rounds in town, good point.

Coming back to the tung, would that be a good primer?

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It would help as a preservative, but it really wouldn’t do anything for paint adhesion. A lot of paints and varnishes have a little tung oil in them. I’m sure the paint guys will tell you to use an oil based primer on your porch, which you can put over the tung, once it’s had some cure time.

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As you can see, there is an oil based primer on the wood, but it has been 9 months or so, so some started to flake. I am planning scrape and sand this, but if the primer is on the wood well enough, could I go over this with tung, or forget about the tung thing, because there is primer on the floor already?

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I might go ahead with the tung oil, if you’re going to sand all of the old primer off. It won’t soak in where there’s primer. It might be a little overkill, since the porch is mostly covered, and your board ends are not sticking out in the weather, but if it’s in the budget, then it’ll give you some peace of mind about the wood being well protected. Your finish coat of paint will give a lot of protection to the wood.

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You know, just for the sake of experimenting, you might thin some tung oil down to 50:50 with some mineral spirits and do a test piece, to see how well the Douglas Fir soaks it up. Being a soft wood, it may not soak enough up to make a difference. Just a thought.

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I will do this. I will keep you posted.

I will start using the 50:50 on my cabinets too. This should help with penetrating.

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you might check the sikkens products also . some use it here and we have a tropical enviroment here with more sun and rain than most places . if im not mistaken sikkens backs thier products quite well but thier a little pricey

Thanks Mr Trim, I will check if we have a Sikkens around here, or check if they do online stuff. And what is pricey, most of the cost is labor “specially when you do it yourself”.

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Hey, Pa, (I love being able to do that. When I was in the Navy, I was about 8 – 10 years older than most of the guys I served with, so I picked up the nick name “Papa”.) Did you ever try out the tung oil on the Douglas Fir?
I just realized, the door that I have for my back door is DF, and I’ll probably do the same treatment as my front door. The wood looks dry enough to soak up anything. I still have to sand all of the old, peeling finish off and re-stain it. I don’t want to put another film finish on it, so I’m sure the tung oil will work.

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Well, I was going to finish the porches myself, but with everything else that i need to do, I decided to hire the painting out. Because of that and because I have already paint on the porch, I will not use the tung oil. It is different when you do it yourself.

I went to a local paint store and they said a water base primer is just as good as an oil base. I don’t trust those guys. Here in California it is very hard to find good paint. The oil base Polyurethane I bought for my floor, I had them ship it to a customer in Utah, because in California you can only sell it in quarts.

Maybe I need to do the same with my porch paint….

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Oh, the name “PaBull”. I am the father of 11 children and at the time that I was investing in stocks (good old times), I chose the handle “PaBull” for a forum.

Thanks, PA Tim….

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father of eleven ??? DUDE , pm me ill be glad to tell you whats causing that !! lol you might invest in a checker board , or maybe some cable t v . lol

Love, nothing but love….

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Well Tim, I did prime the porch with an oil base primer and we did buy Exterior Porch paint, getting home the can said “not for exterior decks…..”.

We will keep you posted.

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