Comments on: Valspar One Coat Primer

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:06:22 +0000

Hey Joe. Thanks for the feedback. 15 years sounds like some good experience. I’ve started to wonder if any primer would have really done a better job. I think this summer I’ll do a Valspar to Kilz comparison when we paint our dining room.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:36:54 +0000

I have been painting for 15 years and started using Valspar products a few years ago per customer requests. All of their primers and paints work well, however they have specific primers for specific uses like drywall primer, multi-purp primer and high hiding primer which is designed to cover up dark painted walls. Their multi-purp primer is great cause it covers as well as sticks to any surface without sanding. I have to say kilz is ok at blocking stains but it does NOT cover well. Stick with the Valspar!!

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:00:25 +0000

Anita,

I plan on comparing the two when I paint the dinning room. I’ll post about how it turned out. Then we can all see which is better.

By: Anita

Anita — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:16:52 +0000

I love Valspar paints - but have been disappointed with Valspar primers. I’ll join the rest of the comment crowd in going with Kilz for priming!

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:34:00 +0000

We painted the cabinets in our kitchen when we moved in as a temporary solution (eventually we want to re-do the kitchen but just haven’t scraped together the $ yet). The back of our cabinets had some staining on them (a gift from the POs). It literally took 2 coats of kilz primer and like 4 additional coats of semi-gloss to irradicate the stain. I was surprised that the kilz didn’t handle it within the first 2 coats (and I probably should have just continued to put kilz on, instead of moving to the final paint).

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:16:00 +0000

I have to say that I have never used primer… We’ve had great luck so far, even with painting our kitchen dark brick red from white.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:00 +0000

I’ve never tried Kilz but it sounds like a worthwhile product. And I know I have some painting in my future. Thanks for the recommendations (Kelli, Sandy).

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:48:00 +0000

I, too, have been very happy with Kilz. Covers all kinds of stuff very well!

By: Kelli

Kelli — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:07:00 +0000

I’ve always been happy with Kilz. I’ve used it on very dark wood paneling, outdoor furniture, and drywall in the bathroom, and it’s always covered well and given a nice surface to work with. I will say, it took two coats of the Kilz on the dark wood paneling. It was very old, dry wood and it soaked up the Kilz, but in that case, it’s probably a good thing because that means we got the dry parts all soaked in so that whatever color we applied later would not soak in and reveal the dark wood underneath. We’ve had no bleed through at all. Good luck!