Painting Problems? Need Urgent Advice, Thanks!

[bluesdiver 0]

Hi All

I am currently doing some minor reno works for my house. One work is to re-paint the master bedroom (one side is brick wall and the other side is gypsum board). This is almost done where the wardrobe and bed frame have already been attached back to the wall.

I have specified to use all Nippon Paints product. To my horror, I realised that the contractor paint a layer of oil-based sealer (not from Nippon) before painting the Nippon paint. I have 2 concerns here:

- the Lead content in the sealer! I have looked at the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and this is not listed although the label on the paint can indicated the product contained Lead. So probably the Lead content is less than 1% or so and not required to be declared in the MSDS under the law.

- the different brand oil-based sealer may not work well with the paint

My main concern is the Lead. Should I be really concern and get this rectify or am I overreacting!? Fyi, I have young children in the home which is why I am very concerned.

Thanks in advance for any response.

Edited November 20, 2011 by bluesdiver

[ben263 0]

you are over reacting....

did you inform your painter to use oil sealer?

if not then your painter did a great job in using the sealer 1st because sealer helps to keep the acrylic paint in good condition over the years..

also all painters hate to paint oil sealer...

if yes, then your painter is just trying to save some costs to use any sealer that was left over from any previous jobs...

lead is not any issue in singapore knowing our goverment sets strict rules for anything coming into our country...

if its an issue to you... you should asked them to paint on wall sealer instead in which is water base....

hope the above helps.....

Hi All

I am currently doing some minor reno works for my house. One work is to re-paint the master bedroom (one side is brick wall and the other side is gypsum board). This is almost done where the wardrobe and bed frame have already been attached back to the wall.

I have specified to use all Nippon Paints product. To my horror, I realised that the contractor paint a layer of oil-based sealer (not from Nippon) before painting the Nippon paint. I have 2 concerns here:

- the Lead content in the sealer! I have looked at the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and this is not listed although the label on the paint can indicated the product contained Lead. So probably the Lead content is less than 1% or so and not required to be declared in the MSDS under the law.

- the different brand oil-based sealer may not work well with the paint

My main concern is the Lead. Should I be really concern and get this rectify or am I overreacting!? Fyi, I have young children in the home which is why I am very concerned.

Thanks in advance for any response.

[dean 5]

i learn a great lesson from a cheapo indian painter (pls beware those from classified ads) who using lousy paint. Now I am buying the nippon odourless easywash paint and nippon oil based sealer (5170) and asked a subcontractor to paint for me. I just pay him labor charges. He will scrap existing paint.