I am salvaging an old pine door exterior door to use on my house. I have scrapped it down to raw wood. The wood has some surface degradation, so I’m planning to give it a coat of epoxy to seal the surface and bind the wood fibers together.
My question is whether I can go ahead and paint it with regular latex primer, or whether I need to use an oil based primer or something else over the epoxy.
Thanks
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I wouldn't use epoxy here, too expensive to use "as a sealer and bind the wood fibres together".
For rough patches, abrasion you can use automotive bondo, then sand then prime, sand and topcoat.
The epoxy certainly won't hurt, and the couple of bucks it would cost is likely trivial compared to the amount of work in the project. Look at CPES epoxy from Smith & Co. It is the one recommended in a recent FWW article on finishing exterior furniture. Its advantage over other epoxys is that it is water thin and gives good penetration.
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