2 Coats of Stain or 1 Coat Primer & 1 Coat Paint?

I am going to paint the exterior of my house which has HardiPlank siding and cedar trim. Which would be better, using two coats of solid color stain (i.e. Sherwin Williams Woodscapes) or using one coat primer (i.e. Bullseye 123) and one coat paint (i.e. Sherwin Williams SuperPaint)?

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Peeling Kitchen Paint

I primed my kitchen walls with an oil based Kilz, it was more than an hour actually days before I painted the walls with a water based paint/primer Behr paint. Now where my chairs hit up against the wall the paint has peeled off. How do I go about removing

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Walls Smell

We painted our walls with Sherman Williams paint. One day after we painted we had this awful smell in the room. We figured out it was coming from the walls. When you smell the paint that was left in the can it smells like paint. The walls though have a

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Deck Sealer

Used “Thompson Water Sealer” clear. Went on in spots darker even after drying. Why if it is supposed to be clear and show the underlying wood colour?

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Re-painting over semi-gloss.

Is there anything I need to do to prep exterior wood siding that has existing semi gloss paint? The entire house was previously painted with semi gloss. Do I need to etch it with something?

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Latex Over Oil

My front wood door paint has bubbled and can easily peel off. I think the previous owners painted latex over oil. How should I proceed to repaint. I have already sanded and removed as much of the peeling paint as I could.

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Estimate Condos

Hi there!!! I opened a painting business not to long ago, and I been doing only residential work. Last week I got offered to paint condos. How should I estimate 1 and 2 bedroom condos so I don’t loose money and that I can pay my workers but also that

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Exterior stucco color coating on a straw bale home.

The color stucco coating is peeling off from the exterior walls of our straw bale home. We believe that the color coat was concrete/lime based (not acrylic), applied 11 years ago. Given that we are considering taking the color coat off, what would you recommend we repaint it with? Elastomeric,

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