Painting Cabinets, Need Help.

[dthor68]

I have some oak cabinets that I want to paint white. I cleaned everything well with crud cutter, then sanded well with 220. I primed with Insl-x Stix, 2 to 3 coats. Top 2 coats is Benjamin Moore Advance. This all went fine and dandy with the cabinets. The doors did not do so well. Primer looked great. However, when I applied the top coat brown staining started coming through. The only thing I did different was I brush painted the cabinets and sprayed the doors with Graco X-5.

So, I am guessing that I am going to have to strip it all down and start again, what would be best way to go about this?

Thanks,

 

[Dumber than lumber]

Oak has tannins.
There is some special primer you use for that.

 

[logan09]

As was said, you're getting tannin bleed through most likely. I'd use a shellac based primer, or shellac in general.

 

[nadogail]

I like Zinzer 123

 

[Donzi camino]

No need to strip, just use an oil based or shellac primer over what you have done and re topcoat.

 

[yeldogt]

The insl is a bonding stain blocking primer .. good stuff. But -- it's a water based .... do they rate it for painting Oak?

Still seems odd --- was the insl fully dry? Do you think your brushed was a thicker coat?

Do you have any advanced primer? That's what I always use.

I don't like universal primers .

 

[The Cobbler]

wondering if because the cabinets are venner covered & the doors are solid wood if the tannin is reacting differently . I agree with the shellac based primer

 

[Gunfixr]

Shellac based primer, covers anything. I used zinsser B-I-N.
Covers anything, I mean anything.
I covered walls stained with nicotine tar, as in running down the walls, shiny.
Then painted right over it, couldn't even tell.
Label said it would cover wax and grease, they may be right.

 

[joey1320]

Because I had no clue what "Shellac" was --

"Shellac (/ʃəˈlæk/)[1] is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish."


Human ingenuity is amazing.

 

[yeldogt]

Make sure you do two coats if you cover with any of the pigmented shellac

 

[Git]

As others have mentioned - BIN primer. No one like sanding, but nothing sands like lacquer/BIN. It literally turns to a 'powder' and won't gum up your sandpaper.

Lay down a couple coats of BIN and sand it to get a near perfect surface and it will make your final finish coats look great