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Painting Limestone

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Raymond Chapman
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Location: Temple. Texas

Painting Limestone

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I have a job to paint a bunch of 8" letters that have been routed out of limestone...a big bunch of letters. They are about .5" deep. The sign has already been installed (about 6' x 15' - double faced).

I would like to use 100% acrylic (charcoal color) since they will have to have several coats and the drying time will be almost nothing in our Texas heat.

Shellac makes a great sealer/primer for this type of job, but can I paint over it with latex paint? Or is there something better to seal the limestone before painting?

Thanks in advance for the help.
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Dan Sawatzky
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Why seal?

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Raymond

In my experience painting walls I would prime the stone/brick whatever with a high quality acrylic primer and then paint with the same high quality brand of acrylic paint. I don't like to seal masonry as it needs to breathe as does acrylic paint.

To seal it means paint failure in my experience - so I don't.

-dan
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