It’s springtime in San Francisco and the great weather is back! We’ve been painting on 11th Avenue, and after a ton of prep, we’re ready for the finish coat! But first we applied Zinsser Peel Stop to a couple of areas.
We removed a ton of loose paint using scrapers and heat, then sealed the bare wood with a slow-drying alkyd primer. On one area where the wood was really beat-up and soft, we applied a coat of Zinsser’s Peel Stop. We don’t really use this product to prevent loose paint from peeling, but we have found it to be a great (eco-friendly) solution for hardening a soft wood substrate prior to priming. We’ve also used this product on soft, punky cedar shakes and it worked great! Creating a solid, sound substrate is key for getting primer and paint to stay put.
