Drywall Paint Finishing
Will drywall stains bleed through paint too?
I just moved into an old house and after stripping through layers of wallpaper I'm plastering over the drywall. I noticed as the spackle dried that it was absorbing some sort of pigment from the drywall and now has these wavy light brown stains. If I paint directly onto this spackle are the stains going to bleed through the paint too? I don't want to waste a ton of time and paint if I don't have to, and the guy at the hardware store said I wouldn't need primer, is this correct? The paint I intend to us is a latex satin-finish interior paint if that helps.
I would go ahead and get a primer. You never can tell if the stains will bleed through into the paint. If you get a primer it will block off and seal that stain so that it can't. Even if you didn't need it for the stain you will get better coverage and adhesion when you paint over the primer.
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