[plainpainter]

Here is a picture of shop of my friend's shop. He does boat canvas, signs, and truck lettering work. His place was really bad looking - so I decided to help him 'spruce' it up. But we decided not to be finicky about it. I went over as a first pass with my turbo nozzle to remove as much paint as possible - then I used a pump up sprayer and mixed efc-38 at 8 ozs./gallon to clean up the wood - then low pressure rinsed.

My next goal was to abandon all my knowledge of oil based primers and such - and totally go over to the 'dark' side with newer technology products. This particular primer is an elastomeric waterbourne primer - has absolutely no pigment in it - you can add up to 4 ozs. per gallon. It has the property that it goes on thick 10-20 mils, fills in all the irregularities, tons of mildewcides, tons of rust prevention - and has a 'stretch' factor of 1500%. These photos show that I used one gallon of this primer tinted yellow and the last photo showing the right part of the building of the same primer but tinted white. This stuff costs $70/gallon and is totally space age.