Hi there.. I am building a closet cabinet from old materials. What I did is disassembled our old cabinet and then made a new one from the material plus 2 old plywood 8x4. My problem is with the door. The doors were made from the 2 old plywood. I primed them with 1 coat of water based primer(white) by davies. Then applied 2 coats of davies water based enamel(white). There are doors that has colors bleeding from the wood. I noticed it after applying the primer and thought it would just be covered by the top coat. It bleeds through the 2 top coats as well. I added another coat and its still showing! Any suggestion how to fix this? Thanks much!
Happened to me, too! Now I apply a thin coat of RJ London acryllic wall putty before any paint. No bleeding since then.
How to fix your current situation, I don't know. I was fortunate that the bleeding occurred in the inside of a cabinet. Maybe a few more coats of Aqua Gloss-It?
I was looking for a water based sealer in wilcon,cw homedepot. It sucks that we dont have those stuff in USA, though it would probably cost a lot lol. Hmm weird that the wall putty helps.. maybe because its kinda thick? I'll try to prime it again with patching compound mixed in primer. It should work like the rj putty. Ive tried coating several aqua gloss it. Still bleeds though. Ive also let it dry overnight but still the same
sand them down,use white flat wall enamel and patch them if needed using wood putty, then use quick dry enamel apply using 4 inch foam roller, use paint thinner to thin down the qde. dont use laquer it will burn the foam roller.
Just to update, best solution I tried was sand downa bit and apply a coat of primer with patching compound or a coat of wall putty. I needed water base so this is the best method I can think of. Enamel flatwall should work fine too if starting from bare wood, then top it with water based paint.Â
