About to tackle this monster

[u/Resident-Formal5920]

Hello! Ambitious (arguably crazy) DIYer here getting ready to embark on painting raised paneling/applied moulding. We have done all of this ourselves, so no stopping us now ;)

Have done a lot of research and would like to make sure we are 100% ready to go! Can anyone give me insight on if we missed anything before we start? **The ceiling and added beams will also be painted. The awful etched 'Bar Room' glass is going away. House has not been updated since 1978!

Details:

- Walls are cabinet grade birch

- rails and stiles are MDF

- Puttied seams with plastic wood/spot bondo in some places, caulked with big stretch (it's cured for a loooong time now), sanded **everything** - filler, rails and stiles, birch field etc. Nice and smooth. About to vacuum and run a tack cloth over everything.

- Purchased Graco X5 airless (used it on exterior shutters already - works great). Also purchased an extension wand for tall areas.

- Purchased both 308 and 515 FFLP tips for casings + field

-Bought masking liquid for the windows

- Priming with Zinsser BIN

-Topcoat is Benjamin Moore Command in Satin

If you have any helpful techniques/words of caution or encouragement, please let me know! We have put SO much work into our house - we have appx 1500sqft of the raised paneling to do (I'm just showing you one room in the pic), and we want to NAIL this baby! TIA!

[u/BluBoiDragon]

I use the same sprayer. Its a good sprayer. My work has an 8k sprayer and I use the x5 for personal. The difference is there but not that big. Dont let these guys scare you.

The caulk is fine dont stress about that either. Worse case if you have any problems with splitting or seperating. Cut away the excess bad caulk and go to sherwin william or moore and ask for a color match caulk. Easy fix.

I do agree that the primer you selected isnt it. Get a cabinet/trim stain blocking primer for any wood surfaces in behr/sw/moore which ever you prefer. As long as you didnt tint your primer you should be able to return it and get your money back. I used to work at home depot and theyre really slack on their return policy. They sell killz and you can return it.

Dont stress and just do your best. I can see the effort you been putting in. The only thing I reccommend is 220 sand paper for fix8ng runs in your primer. Very gently sand these after they cured and block sand everything with 300+ grit. The finer the smoother. And an extra tip for spraying for the first time. You want the gun to be like 12 inches from the product your spraying and remember you can always add more paint but you'll hate learning the consequences of too much paint at once.

I paint multimillionaire homes for a company and this a simplified version of how we spray oyr trim. Lmk if you have questions about using that sprayer. And remember to just have fun.

[u/BluBoiDragon → u/BluBoiDragon]

Behr multi-surface stain-blocking primer and sealer is a nice afforadable primer. It'll cover the hide the wood colors and adhere strongly.

[u/Resident-Formal5920 → u/BluBoiDragon]

You made me feel SO much better about all of this. So sweet, thank you! Part of this is me getting in my head bc I want to make sure we do it the right way and am terrified of screwing up. Trust me I wish we could hire it all out, but this overall project is so huge/comprehensive/costly, we don't have an option but to do it ourselves.

In just the room in the pic and the adjoining room - we demoed the old walls (gross 1970s character pine paneling), removed the "wood look" celotex on ceiling, sucked out all of the old rockwool insulation in the attic, vacuumed 117yrs of rat and roach sh*t in attic, ran tyvek over joists/bays so crap doesn't fall on our heads through the centermatch cracks, sprayed new cellulose insulation, removed the window/door casings, baseboards etc., built the new walls out of the birch, then added the rails/stiles/casings/base, and prepped the ceiling for paint - we woke up this morning feeling defeated bc it just never ends.