Back Rolling Painting.

For this job, we used Sherwin Williams’ Loxon Primer. Great product! It can be used as a primer and a topcoat. We just have to make sure that during the painting process, we are also back rolling while spraying. It was the middle of winter, and the owners had the heater off. We used a thermal thermometer to check the temperature of the surface to see if it was possible to paint that day even though we suspected we weren’t going to be able to. The temperature was 25 degrees! No way we could paint, so we turned the heaters on and left for the day. Then following day we checked the moisture level of the wall, it came up to 8%.

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Back Rolling Painting, Why?

Some of you might be wondering “why roll the walls if you’re spraying them?”. It’s a very reasonable thing to wonder. The reason is that if you only spray the blocks, the paint will just form a top layer on top of the surface which will peel in a short time. When rolling, the material soaks into the surface and penetrates the pores so it makes a strong bond. The spraying is just to apply the material faster.

What paint are we back rolling?

Originally, we were planning on using a product by Sherwin Williams called Loxon XP. We have always used Loxon XP for these type of jobs, but when we read the instructions of the can, we noticed that the moisture level of the surface we were painting was too high for Loxon XP.

After doing a little research, we found out Sherwin Williams Loxon Primer can be used on bare cement blocks with a moisture level of up to 15%. This is when we decided to use it. We kept reading the directions when we found out this product could also be used as a top coat. The color was going to be white, the same white as the primer. Pretty convenient huh?