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Thanks for your answer. This home is about 20 years old and we purchased it only recently, so there is no owner's manual. The vent fan over the range does not work and the vent fan in the untility room just outside the master bath does not work. The dryer is vented under the attached porch, which ma...

Our windows have started sweating since we turned on the heat. What can we do to correction this?

Ila

We recently completed painting our used mobile home. We were told at the local home center to use an oil-based primer, not a latex one. Latex will peel off. We were also told if there were odors in the walls to use a shellac-based primer.

Laura, I am very interested in your cabint painting project. Our cabinets are either particle board or MDF. Our local home center told us not to paint particle board. I don't see why we couldn't paint the vinyl face the same as we painted the walls, but I am intereted in the product you called cabin...

We recently purchased a used mobile home and wanted to paint the walls. We asked at a local home center and were told to use an oil-based primer, not a latex one. Latex will peel off. We were also told that if there were odors in the walls that we wanted to cover to use a shellac based primer. Since...

We are in the process of painiting the walls of our mobile home. We asked at a local home center and were told to prim the walls with an oil-based primer. We were told a latex primer or latex paint will peel off. We had some white lates paint and painted a small area. We let it set two weeks and the...

We recently painted two bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. We asked the paint department at a local home center and were told to use an oil based primer and then we could paint with either an oil based or water based paint. Since we purchased a used home, we were told if we thought there were odors in the wa...

Thanks for all the replies, but no one indicated what type of cabinets you painted. Were they solid wood, MDF, or particle board? Ours are either MDF or particle board. I wouldn't hesitate at all to paint MDF, but I'm not sure about particle board.