Well after spending almost a whole month taping the dry wall, I’m quite excited to finally be painting the walls. When we moved in, knowing I would be doing lots of painting I bought a 5-gallon bucket of Valspar Primer from Lowes. I didn’t really have any complaints about it, but everyone seems to use Killz instead so I thought I’d give that a try. Used almost all of a 2-gallon bucket (on sale at Home Depot, woo!) for this room. It didn’t seem noticeably different than the Valspar stuff. I’m very happy with how the paint came out, there are one or two spots that I need to go back and touch up the spackle, but on the whole it looks great. I was rather upset when I noticed two quarter sized bubbles, that turned out to be voids in the middle of the sheetrock. I didn’t notice them while spackeling, but it seems that the primer caused the paper to expand there a bit and they now pop out a little.
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