Hello, just a quick question that I hope somebody can help me with?

I have some acrylic primer left to first coat some bare wood interior doors. The problem I have is I don't have enough acrylic to paint them all, but I do have some white emulsion too. Could I use the emulsion as a first coat primer? and or if not, why not? Maybe I could mix the two together or is that a no no too?

Thanks in advance for any help

Mike

I've used emulsion quite a few times as a stop gap. Before Christmas i ran out of primer undercoat whilst doing some mdf shelving so used Gliddens vinyl matt to finish the priming.

The emulsion did a better job than the acrylic primer undercoat!

Thanks Fitzy i will. So if you can use emulsion as a primer for interior wood, what's the point of acrylic primer?

At a guess "adherence".

I think so. interesting that many waterbased products recommend wet abrasion prior to painting over solvent based paints. I don't think this is the case with acrylic primer undercoat.

I have not spotted the wetting business ... but for a video clip (utube) from crown where they were recommending wetting the surface (it was doors they were painting) to add a bit of moisture to stop the water based gloss drying too fast.