However, for applying oil-base paint, consider using cardboard-core roller covers.
As a rule, latex house paints have much less gloss than oil-base paints.
Eighteen gallons of oil-base paint for old, dry wood had been required, and weeks of work.
Could we really afford fifteen to twenty gallons of expensive oil-base paint, the kind required for old, dry wood?
In view of what happened after the last paint job, it is obvious that an oil-base paint is better than a latex.
Use an oil-base paint on surfaces that are stained or discolored.
As a result, oil-base paints tend to shed dirt better.
Q.My 15-year-old white clapboard house is painted every three or four years with an oil-base paint.
Painted over (oil-base paint is required), it usually lasts five years.
Q. Three years ago, our garage siding and the trim on our house were painted with a white oil-base paint.
