Can You Paint with Water Based Enamel Paint Over Chalk Paint?
by Carole
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I am in the process of painting a Singer Sewing cabinet with ASCP. I would like to add a stencil over the chalk paint in white, but I don't want to have to buy a tin of the white ASCP. I already have a water based white enamel paint. Can I stencil over ASCP with the white enamel water based paint or will it adversely affect the chalk paint? Thanks.
8 answers
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GDay Carole, I didnt think enamel paint was water based, acrylic is water based, enamel is oil based...... Either way, yes I would paint it over chalk paint. Pics when you are finished please 😀
😀 on Jan 31, 2015
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Enamel is not water based, but oil based. You can use it over chalk paint as the reader indicates.
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Elaine Simmons
on Jan 31, 2015
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Probably use primer first
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Doug
on Jan 31, 2015
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They do make water based enamel. As long as the chalk paint has not been waxed, you can easily go over it with almost any product. If it has been waxed, its a totally different ballgame!
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Decorative & Faux Finishes
on Jan 31, 2015
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Loved alll the replies. I have one further question: Does latex flat paint come in a spray can?
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Gloria tulip
on Jan 31, 2015
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acrylic spray paint is water based. it comes varying finishes. hope that helps.
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J
on Jan 31, 2015
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Carole, you are right. It used to be (before latex paint was popular) that when we said enamel paint it meant oil paint. That was my reasoning. Ask anyone 70 or over and that is what they say. After researching, I see they use enamel in their description which indicates hardness of paint.
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Elaine Simmons
on Jan 31, 2015
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Lately enamel comes only in water based, as explained by the supplier when I asked about it. There must still be oil based enamel out there, but it will slowly disappear. Too many problems with allergies to turps made them change it. I have used only water based enamel for ages now.
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Ria Erasmus
on Nov 05, 2016
Doug
on Jan 31, 2015
Decorative & Faux Finishes
on Jan 31, 2015
Gloria tulip
on Jan 31, 2015
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