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Oil based and water based - mixing up.

Nita Dreamdesigns

3 years ago

Hi all,

Please need an advice, will really appreciate. We have just applied oil based dulux primer on our study room shelf. We will apply dulux gloss white paint on it now but just realised that it’s water based. My question is can we apply water based paint on oil based primer? If not is there any solution around this? Thank you in advance.

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