Is Kilz a good exterior paint too?

It is not even a paint. It is a ';stain stopper';. Outside and inside. Example: have you ever painted raw cedar siding white. Let it dry and then noticed lots of orange ';burned thru''; the white especially around the knots? That is the sap of the cedar. Putting a coat of kilz on that area ontop of the paint will (when it is dry) glass over the stain flow , and what goes thru glass.....nothing. Now when you put on a second coat of paint on all the cedar(and over top of the Kilz treated spot. nothing shows. It is all white....as you wanted it.


There is also this evil stuff called indelible pencil. If it was used on the wall, you can paint over it 5 times(drying each coat) and it still shows thru.


Basically you make the discovery when you put on the first coat of paint, which usually covers all pencil marks no problems. (I hate carpenters who use that pencil and make them fix it without telling them how. They don't do it anymore.) After the first coat dries. Then apply Kilz to the problem areas, just spray bomb a patch and let that dry and then reroll the wall or rebrush the molding with the next coat of paint.


Kilz is shellac. That is why I say hard like glass, shellac is like that. It will hold back sap, grease, tar,(provided there isn't too much of the stuff. And as you can not reuse the brush in anything else and it basically goes to ';pot'; I get the spray bombs. Doesn't have to go on super heavy to completely hide the mark as shellac is semi transparent. It is just whitish so you can see where you have been. Get it wet on problem area and leave it to dry. Then paint over with exterior paint.


Done like Borscht.Is Kilz a good exterior paint too?
No, it is just a primer. However, they now make a latex version called Kilz-2, which can be found at Home Depot or Lowe's, which works great on exteriors before painting.





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