You bought the good quality paint, let your sweat flow in the home painting yet the result is totally unexpected. No fine touch still as yet; color is flowing down leaving marks behind or flaks appeared soon after home painting. How come that all your hard efforts went into drain. You might have analyzed by now that what went wrong. Yes you are right, culprit lies down there. Your surface was not prepared and you want all out in home painting endeavor without thinking twice. What if you had known in advance that further actions would be not be fruitful as you were not following the basic rules.

Okay, Lets clear the matter here. There might be tough unwanted stains. There could be the case when either the plaster was not done in the proper shape in case of fresh wall or the layer beneath did not let upper surface to settle in strongly. The answer to the problem is Primer coating. Let’s understand the application and importance of the primer in the home painting.

Primer are of three kinds:

* Alkyd – Oil base
* Acrylic – Latex
* Tinted Shellac

The basic function of the primer is to prepare the unprepared surface. All the craters, bad surfaces are filled in by the primer. Application of primer is intended to make surface solid and even. If you are on mission to do dark colored home painting then primer can be tinted. This reduces the paint consumption by the fresh surface as new wall guzzle lot of paint. This also lessens the chance of mismatched surfaces. Make sure that you choose the right primer for the kind of surface you have. Any primer will not do. The right kind of primer will increase the life of your painted walls may be as well up to 10 years.

o Oil based primer is good for the surfaces that is about to be painted with oil based paint. This primer is universal with all kind of oil based painting. This kind of home painting is highly smooth in touch.
o Latex Primer is used for the surfaces that are badly prepared. Latex Primer fill in the craters and binds the paint and surface strongly. These primer resist cracking, peeling, and blistering of the surface and are very easy to maintain. One can wash them easily with soap and water.
o Tinted Shellac is used for the surfaces that have already some other paints on them. This hides the surfaces beneath and let new layer of the paint settle down. This the most powerful primer to seal those stains on the surfaces which are hard to mend for example Smoke stains, or nicotine stains. While other primer let the stains come up but this primer seals the fate of stains then and there.

For more classified information on Primer and their uses you can access the websites of major paint manufacturers, many of home have entire sections that assist in choosing the right primers for your home painting needs.